ANNABELLE CREATION

ANNABELLE CREATION 

ANNABELLE CREATION: C-

A series of irrational and illogical choices wrapped up in nonsensical transitions to conveniently move the plot forward, is the best way to describe this film.

Strong performances from the actors, with notable lighting and special effects kept this film watchable, but the outright stupid decisions made by characters throughout the film kept the film from being good.

Without giving away too much, I'll make a quick analogy to make my point. Imagine watching JAWS when the shark is swimming around killing people in the water. Someone screams how scared they are, and that they want to get away. So they take a knife, cut their leg, dive into the water and immediately get devoured by the shark. Yeah, choices made by the characters in this film made about as much sense as that.

I'll give the film that amongst a few jump scares it did have some genuinely freaky and even borderline scary moments. It's a shame a better story couldn't have been developed so that rather than sit through a film whose sole purpose it was to startle you often, scare you little, would have been more enjoyable.