Annabelle Creation 2017

I watched almost all of the first Annabelle and found it to be one of the worst movies I've ever seen, given that its from this decade, well financed and yet remained a racist, rightwing propaganda piece exploiting 20 decent horror films unknown to a mass audience. But the people who hated the original said this was a "superior sequel". It was superior in its rightwing extremism, lack of substance, exploitation of old movies and general evil.

Refresher: Annabelle 1 followed a Conservative couple in the early 1960s starting their family but haunted by the evil spirit of a hippie girl who died. Their black female "friend"/servant gives her life to protect the family and atone for her own race's savage religion. The end.

The "self-sacrificing coon" is a favorite trope for Conservatives

Now the people who love this sequel are the mindless social liberals who are really conservative but vote democrat and like Beyonce. So when they say its better they mean the cinematography and money is greater. And it sure is. The D.P. has the talent for a better film but he brings the flavor of good films like The Reflecting Skin and Days of Heaven to this nightmare. I kinda hate him for that. Anabelle 2 or The Conjuring 4 is 2 boring hours of gorgeous production design and high tech effects sold as a film. The plot, acting and directing is non-existent. Its needlessly slow & uneventful to trick its already bought and paid for critics to claim it has "dread" or a "European sensibility".

The most defining and distressing thing about this film and many other faux-hipster cinema coming out of Hollywood is an open fetishization and obsession with female children. Dressing them up in fetish-y costumes, making them objects and not characters and just staging them in sadistic, meaningless power fantasies. Stranger Things, Logan, Fury Road, It Follows, Amityville Awakening, Wonder Woman all have these physically frail childlike or child actresses playing naive almost primitive Barbies with no spectrum of emotion, a kind of oblivious and damning virginity and a canned feminine submissive "strength". They are cast and directed to be these pretty dolls for ogling and nothing more.

This is the Hollywood exec's ideal female image

 Annabelle Creation takes it further by literally making the film a feature length warning to young girls to follow Christian patriarchy or you will be possessed and your murder justified. Also gotta love the Nazism of deeming the handicapped protagonist as bitter, vengeful and ultimately better off dead. This is woman-hating, liberal-hating religious propaganda on a mass scale and its no shock. The moronic rightwing public fear Hollywood is run by evil liberal Jews yet what real Leftist films have been released by a major studio lately? Any true leftist is anti-capitalist, so the major schlock makers are obviously Far Right capitalist statists totally relieved by this dark Trump age or bullshit-filled Anarchist Capitalists who rather feed their bank accounts than fight the power.

On a somewhat cheerier note, I marvel that this film broke records and its essentially the same formula as the films Charles Band has produced with Full Moon. All of the Blumhouse crap and James Wan garbage: criminally cheap, unoriginal productions based around dolls & off-screen supernatural hijinks with a Conservative, retro aesthetic. But Full Moon was always quirkier, more experimental and modest in their conservativism. They tended to make fun of their own party and own up and disown the Nazism and McCarthyism. Now Hollywood's rightwing indulge in it thanks to dog whistles from Mel Gibson and our president. What a bleak future for the big studio movies. TV, comics and literature are guaranteed to gain the monopoly on progressive storytelling.

The mantra of this new Conservative cinema is appropriating mainstream genres, preaching a more inclusive facade but working to dismantle feminism, multiculturalism, atheism, anything too "arty". They are trying to give us Liberal filmmaking minus all the nasty Liberalism.