By Emilio Frenk.
Director: David F. Sandberg
Cast: Brad Greenquist, Stephanie Sigman, Mark Bramhall, Lulu Wilson, Talitha Bateman, Grace Fulton, Philippa Coulthard, Tayler Buck, Samara Lee, Miranda Otto and Anthony LaPaglia.
Rating: Very Good.
Director David F. Sandberg, who gained critical acclaim with last year´s “Light´s Out” brings “Annabelle: Creation” so far his most ambitious movie of his career and again he delivered very good results.
This installment of “The Conjuring” series tells the story of Samuel Mullins (Anthony LaPaglia) a doll maker who suffers the lost of her younger daughter Bee (Samara Lee).
Twelve years later he welcomes a Sister Charlotte (Stephanie Sigman) a nun who comes with a group of orphan girls including a young girl with a disability named Janice (Talitha Bateman) and her closest friend Linda (Lulu Wilson).
At the beginning everything goes great with the girls. But one night Janice begins to experience a series of events that are related to a vintage doll named Annabelle, that happens to be one of Samuel´s most valuable creations.
The doll is possessed and wants the soul of girls, especially Janice. Now Janice will have to save her own life before she´s possessed by the doll and hopefully she will have the help from Sister Charlotte and the rest of the girls.
One of the things that David F. Sandberg did with this installment of “Annabelle” was the way how he played with tension using both the cinematography and sound.
This two elements are basic for a movie of this genre since are the elements that help to built tension in between scenes.
Other factor that made the movie very good was the screenplay by Gary Dauberman who learned his lesson from 2014´s “Annabelle” and created a much better film.
For starters the characters that he created here were more special, had more depth and the level of conflict for every single one of them was more marked.
Normally prequels do not succeed but this one did and by far is more superior than “Annabelle”.
This is the kind of horror movies that have to be made that are more psychological and one of the things that has happen in the genre lately is that it´s only focused on blood and guts and that is what it doesn´t represent the horror genre. Horror is psychological and without that element there is no horror film.
David F. Sandberg surprised me with “Light´s Out” last year and he did again with “Annabelle: Creation”.
I haven´t seen a movie that has scared me the most in a long time and Sandberg did an amazing job.
I believe that Sandberg and James Wan are resuscitating this genre that was extinguishing and both went back to the origins and made this film special.
I consider David F. Sandberg as the next John Carpenter or Wes Craven in horror film and this is the result of it. To watch this movie watch first the original “Annabelle” and then this one.
For horror lovers you will not be disappointed with this film that I put it as scary as
“The Shining”, “The Sixth Sense” and other films from the genre.
“Annabelle: Creation” is one of the biggest surprises of this year and I highly recommend it.