Making a successful horror movie is no mean feat – if people are going to be shelling out money for eerily dark interiors and ghoulish faces, they need to be getting their money's worth on the fear factor. Far too many directors confuse stomach-churning gore and easy jump-scares with genuine, fear-inducing horror. While they have their merits, cheap thrills are no longer enough to bring in the dollar bills.
David Sandberg's Annabelle: Creation manages to do what the first movie of the franchise failed to – it creates an atmosphere of darkness and dread that gradually settles....