They have fun running around - something she's incapable of - and it's noted that she's the weakest of the group. She's Alice in Wonderland as she remains brave and curious despite her circumstances, then Ophelia from " Pan's Labyrinth" as she explores the house filled with locked rooms, keys and a doll's house. In her light blue dress, Janice evokes heroines from other movies. In an effort to move on, they open their house to the orphans, supervised by nun Sister Charlotte. In a pre-opening title sequence, we see that the couple were left devastated by the death of their daughter 12 years ago. You care about Janice and the small group of orphan girls who travel to an isolated house in the mid-'50s to stay with the Mullins, played by Otto and LaPaglia. The impairment of her crutch and subtle creaks of her leg brace add another tense layer to the fear she'll make it out OK.Īnd that's one of the film's greatest strengths. Janice, played by Talitha Bateman, is not only an orphan, her adversity extends to polio in one leg. As in that unsettling debut he centres his latest film on a heroine. Sandberg last year landed on the horror scene with the more-than-decent " Lights Out". Sandberg's horror movie package, and that's the point. These classic genre elements are the bare filling of director David F. With the seal of approval from great Australian actors Miranda Otto and Anthony LaPaglia, "Annabelle: Creation" almost breaks free from the chains of the original movie, a B-grade 2014 flick you don't need to watch before taking on the prequel. This supernatural prequel justifies a whole movie on the origins of the titular creepy doll with good, old school horror - for most of its running time. "Annabelle: Creation" comes so close to getting it right.
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