What’s it rated? R
Where’s it showing? Park, Galaxy
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David F. Sandberg (Lights Out) directs Annabelle (2014) screenwriter Gary Dauberman’s prequel script about a possessed doll. After doll maker Samuel Mullins (Anthony LaPaglia) and his wife Esther (Miranda Otto) lose their daughter in an accident, they believe she’s returned by embodying one of Samuel’s dolls. When they realize the doll is actually possessed by evil, they lock it away, but 12 years later the couple invite nun Sister Charlotte (Stephanie Sigman) and a group of six girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, and the evil doll begins to call out to one girl in particular, Janice (Talitha Bateman), reigniting the evil. (109 min.)
—Glen Starkey
This article appears in Aug 24 – Sep 3, 2017.