Annabelle: Creation

"You don't know the real story."

2017 1h 50m EN

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6.6

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★6.6TMDB · 6,119

Horror

Synopsis

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Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the doll maker's possessed creation—Annabelle.

“You don't know the real story.”

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Cast

Stephanie Sigman
Sister Charlotte
Talitha Eliana Bateman
Janice
Lulu Wilson
Linda
Anthony LaPaglia
Samuel Mullins
Miranda Otto
Esther Mullins
Grace Caroline Currey
Carol
Philippa Coulthard
Nancy
Samara Lee
Annabelle "Bee" Mullins

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: David F. Sandberg
Writers: Gary Dauberman
Languages: English, Spanish
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Grossed $307M — a 20.4× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 9 years ago.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Spanish.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Annabelle Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by David F. Sandberg, shot by Maxime Alexandre. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Benjamin Wallfisch. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Michel Aller shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Stephanie Sigman and Talitha Eliana Bateman and Lulu Wilson carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

David F. Sandberg directs. Maxime Alexandre behind the camera. Benjamin Wallfisch scores. Michel Aller cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, Spanish.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Grossed $307M — a 20.4× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
2Released 9 years ago.
3Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Spanish.
4Part of the "Annabelle Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by David F. Sandberg, shot by Maxime Alexandre. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Benjamin Wallfisch. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Michel Aller shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Stephanie Sigman and Talitha Eliana Bateman and Lulu Wilson carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "You don't know the real story.".
10IMDB entry: tt5140878 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 9 themes, including "halloween", "prequel", "evil doll", "demon".
12Released under 13 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Maxime Alexandre
Original score: Benjamin Wallfisch
Editing: Michel Aller
Production design: Jennifer Spence
Costume design: Leah Butler
Makeup / hair: Liz Mendoza
VFX supervisor: Jeremy Burns
Sound: Bill R. Dean
Stunt coordinator: Mark Norby
Runtime: 110 min · 1h 50m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $15,000,000
Box office: $306,592,201
Return: 2044% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Annabelle: Creation (2017)

Part of

Annabelle Collection

A supernatural horror film series that is part of the The Conjuring Universe and was inspired by a story of a doll named Annabelle told by Ed and Lorraine Warren.

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David F. Sandberg

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Gimly2017-11-28
★ 5/10
Now that we've had three seperate origins for the Annabelle doll, maybe we can put the doll to rest. In fairness to director David F. Sandberg however, Creation is entire leagues better than the first Annabelle. Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole.
John Chard2017-12-10
★ 6/10
Conduit Demon: Take 27! OK! It may not be 27 films in the latest conduit demon phase of horror film making, but it sure as hell feels like it! Annabelle: Creation would have been a very good horror film if it had come out 10 years ago, as it is we find ourselves treading familiar ground and relying on the usual horror film making playbook for our thrills. Anyone such as myself who is bothered by pediophobia, automatonphobia and pupaphobia will surely be chilled to the bone here, for the makers push it to the max, with fine results. However, once that aspect is stripped away and the sound and visual horror staples grow tired, we are left hankering for a glorious final quarter of film to terrify us - which sadly doesn't materialise as we then get conduit demon 101. In the pluses column there's a superb tie-in to the real Annabelle doll, an adherence to story as fact shrewdly inserted, and the acting (with young Lulu Wilson bright again as she wanders in from Ouija: Origin of Evil) is more than adequate. Sound mix rocks, as does the photographic shadows and shimmers, rendering the production technically good. If only the writers had been a bit more bolder and imaginative... Much better than Annabelle (2014) (which isn't hard really), "Creation" is above average fare for casual horror fans with the fears previously stated. Hard core horror nuts, however, are likely to be very jaded come the end credits rolling. 6.5/10
Reno2018-02-04
★ 5/10
This is where it all begins! The second spin-off from 'The Conjuring' franchise and overall a fourth film to set in the same universe. The first film, which was 'Annabelle', I thought it was an okayish. Now with this, there's a potential sub franchise. Probably it could head back to back-wards as prequels, while 'The Conjuring is heading forward. There's nothing new from this, but still not a bad film. I liked the location. A single house in the mountain and revolved around a bunch of orphans. It is where it all begins. The creation of the most haunted doll that you saw in 'The Conjuring'. Focused on a doll making family, following an accident, how the family lived their rest of the life was told. A nun with a few orphan girls joins the family to live-in. When one of the kids discovers the locked away doll with secrets, the evil force unleashed. In the latter parts, the film reveals what happen to them and to the doll. Also hinting out at a possible prequel, going to be in Europe. I felt it was decent, so okay for watching once, especially if you had liked the previous one. 5/10