The main stage didnt serve her well.
There just wasnt enough there there to carry her own film.
So, naturally, shes now been given a sequel.
Credit: Warner Bros
But none of this will seem new to horror fans.
Their genre has never known the phrase Enough is enough.
Annabelle: Creationisnt a terrible film.
The set-up is promising, and it offers some decent early jump scares.
But eventually the thinness of the material becomes overwhelmingly obvious.
Theres possessed children with cracking, snapping double joints.
Theres old record players that mysteriously start playing scratchy old-time tunes seemingly of their own accord.
And theres maniacal looking dolls.
Needless to say, it doesnt.
At least, we do find out where Annabelle came from, though.
LaPaglia is the dollmaker who created her.
A demonic presence starts haunting them with night time shocks and blink-fast appearances.
The scares arent especially clever or well-choreographed.
Instead of artfully engineered frights, Sandberg goes for cackling sadism.
None of this adds up to much besides a few arbitrary funhousegotchamoments.
Then again, maybe thats the point of this series.
Heres a thought: Maybe it doesnt mean anything.C
