Annabelle: Creation (2017)

Finally, they got one right 😱


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🎥 Let’s start by showing y’all the trailers shall we?

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😬 Non-Spoiler Plot Overview

This is by far the best Annabelle movie. Unlike the first one where the doll just sat around like a creepy paperweight, this one actually goes full throttle: it’s intense, scary, and doesn’t shy away from disturbing imagery.

We’re in a foster home out in the desert where a group of orphans — including a girl in a wheelchair — are brought to live. The family running the house has a tragic past: years earlier, their daughter was killed in a car accident. Grieving and desperate, the parents prayed for her return. Something answered… but it wasn’t their daughter. Instead, it was a demon disguised as her that convinced them to let it inhabit the doll they made: Annabelle.

The mother tried to destroy the doll, but she was burned and disfigured in the process. Now Annabelle is locked away in the house, waiting. And when the kids arrive, the demon zeroes in on Janice, the girl in the wheelchair.


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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Character Rundown

Janice (Talitha Bateman) – The wheelchair-bound girl the demon targets for possession. Vulnerable, sympathetic, and ultimately tragic.

Linda (Lulu Wilson) – Janice’s best friend, brave and quick-thinking, easily the heart of the kids’ group.

Samuel Mullins (Anthony LaPaglia) – The grieving dollmaker father. He tries to make amends but pays dearly.

Esther Mullins (Miranda Otto) – The mother, scarred physically and emotionally, wearing a doll’s face mask after being attacked by the demon. Her reveal is one of the film’s most disturbing moments.

Sister Charlotte (Stephanie Sigman) – The nun watching over the kids, also tying into the larger Conjuring universe with that picture of Romanian nuns.

Annabelle / The Demon – Finally unleashed. The doll isn’t just spooky décor; it’s a gateway to pure evil.



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⏳ Pacing / Episode Flow

The movie wastes no time establishing the tragedy, the creepy house, and the locked-up doll. From there it escalates steadily — no dead zones, no boring filler. When the scares hit, they hit hard. By the second half, it’s pure chaos: kids being chased, parents killed, demon unleashed.


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✅ Pros

Finally a scary Annabelle film, not a snooze fest.

Brutal imagery that pushes the boundaries of PG-13 (and honestly feels R).

Strong child performances, especially Talitha Bateman and Lulu Wilson.

Clever tie-ins to The Conjuring 2 and The Nun.

That ending twist connecting back to Annabelle (2014) actually lands.



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❌ Cons

Still leans a bit heavy on jump scares at times.

Some side characters (a few of the foster kids) don’t get much development.

Once Janice is possessed, the story basically telegraphs its outcome.



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💭 Final Thoughts

If the first Annabelle made you roll your eyes, this one will actually make you grip your seat. It’s creepy, intense, and finally gives the doll real menace. The kills are gnarly, the atmosphere works, and the way it loops back to the first film is surprisingly clever. This is the high point of the Annabelle trilogy, no question.


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⭐ Rating

10/10


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🚨 Spoiler Warning

Spoilers ahead. You have been warned.


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🔥 Spoilers

The tragic backstory sets everything up: the Mullins’ daughter gets hit by a car, and the grieving parents unwittingly invite a demon disguised as their child to live inside the doll. Esther (the mother) later tries to get rid of it, but ends up horribly burned — half her face scorched, one eye gone. From then on, she wears a doll mask.

Janice, stuck in her wheelchair, becomes the demon’s prime target. The scares escalate: shadows, possessions, and gruesome set-pieces. One standout: Samuel (the father) tries to banish the demon by holding a cross to the doll — instead, his fingers are grotesquely bent backwards one by one before he’s killed.

Esther doesn’t fare better. Later she’s found crucified on the wall, literally split in half with her guts spilling out. Yeah, this movie does not play around.

The kids and Sister Charlotte try to escape, but Janice finally succumbs and becomes possessed. In the aftermath, Janice is adopted by new parents under the name Annabelle Higgins. Years later, she grows up to be the same Annabelle who murders her family in the opening of Annabelle (2014). Boom, continuity.

And then there’s the Easter egg: Sister Charlotte shows a photo of herself with nuns at a Romanian abbey. Another nun appears in the photo that no one recognizes… it’s Valak, the demon from The Nun and Conjuring 2.

The post-credits hammer it home, showing Valak floating down a candlelit hallway in Romania, candles blowing out as she passes.

So yeah — this film not only works as a scary standalone but cleverly connects the entire Conjuring universe.