Annabelle: Creation's reviews
Media reviews
The A.V. Club
'Annabelle: Creation' is more fun than you might expect from a prequel to a spin-off.
Roger Ebert
It has echoes of the original film, and works more with mood and less with cheap scares than either ?Annabelle? or ?The Conjuring 2,? resulting in a truly effective genre flick.
The Wrap
The 'Conjuring' spin-off series delivers a solid array of haunted house jitters.
The Hollywood Reporter
New Line?s prequel for the 'Conjuring? spinoff provides a chilling backstory for the demonic doll.
Variety
Despite being stuck with a lame script, 'Lights Out' director David F. Sandberg manages to conjure some effective scares.
Entertainment Weekly
'Annabelle: Creation' isn?t a terrible film. Not exactly. The set-up is promising, and it offers some decent early jump scares. But eventually the thinness of the material becomes overwhelmingly obvious.