Annabelle: Creation

“Annabelle: Creation” isn’t perfect. It’s a bit too long (109 minutes) and sometimes feels like it’s making up its own story logic as it goes along.

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David F. Sandberg’s Annabelle: Creation is a haunted-house horror story that plays on our primeval fear of the dark.

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Horror works — or it doesn’t — in the flickering, moving images of the screen, not the page. Sandberg knows that. His artistry, for that’s what it is, is like that of the dollmaker Sam Mullins: to take inert material and create a living, breathing thing.

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No matter how seriously James Wan and the folks at New Line take “Annabelle: Creation” and its perceived placement in the franchise, its success comes from the fact that it is just a throwaway haunted house movie, one in which ghouls pop out from every corner, nothing is all that consequential, and scares are artfully composed and orchestrated even when they don’t make that much sense.

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Annabelle: Creation is a better movie than its 2014 predecessor.

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Despite being stuck with a lame script, 'Lights Out' director David F. Sandberg manages to conjure some effective scares in New Line's demon-doll prequel.

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LAFF: The “Conjuring” spin-off series, in the hands of “Lights Out” director David F. Sandberg, delivers a solid array of haunted house jitters.

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As with last year’s “Lights Out,” [Sandberg] proves a master of the flash-scare, a nifty choreographer of precipitous timing and striptease visuals. But he’s also adroit with more leisurely horrors.

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Annabelle: Creation is a mishmash of clichés and nonsense.

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Annabelle: Creation carves itself a fun little haunted house to play around in for a quick dose of scares and screams.

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That sums up Annabelle: Creation, another entry into another universe that no one was really asking for, but here we are nevertheless. To add another one to the chalkboard list: “Yeah, no.”

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