# Annabelle: Creation (2017)

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**Runtime**: 110 min
**Genres**: Horror
**Directed by**: David F. Sandberg
**Written by**: Gary Dauberman
**Starring**: Stephanie Sigman, Talitha Eliana Bateman, Lulu Wilson, Anthony LaPaglia, Miranda Otto, Grace Caroline Currey

> *You don't know the real story.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A rural farmhouse, summer, a wooden doll's head. 
A grieving couple's home becomes a refuge for orphans, then a haunted battleground. 
David F Sandberg grounds horror in the doll maker's craft.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult, dread

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 6.5/10 (169544 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 71% · Metacritic 62/100

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