The Reel Rejects - ANNABELLE: CREATION (2017) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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Starting point is 00:01:16 Coverage options are selected by the customer. Availability, amount of discounts, and savings, and eligibility vary by state. go we're going to watch it about creation right now yes that was so good man that was a great like that was excellent excellent man good stuff how did you guys feel if you're on apple or spotify give us that five star youtube that thumbs up rejectation shop.com for these dope-ass sweat shirts Tara yeah

Starting point is 00:02:01 please don't take my sunshine away oh man okay is this the is this the best conjuring movie yeah like even not just of the Annabels or

Starting point is 00:02:15 of we I don't know how you guys are airing this but we've already seen the nun of all of Conjuring conjuring for sure is my favorite of them for sure this was stellar yeah it was really, really good. Pacing was great. That lead girl can act her ass off. I mean, she is

Starting point is 00:02:34 phenomenal. I don't know. I don't reckon. That's weird because there's a name that just popped up here saying Tolita Bateman. And I'm like, I wonder if she was, if she's like Bateman's daughter or something? She's very good. I don't know. Jason? Yeah. Yeah. He doesn't, I don't know. anyway um i really really liked the way that they did use the sound design in this movie scared the crap out of me even with just nothing going on the footsteps the sounds would like absolutely jump scare me without us really even seeing anything scare the crap out of me um and i i like that we what are we getting to right now let's look oh it's just annavel she can move or something right.

Starting point is 00:03:24 Blink her eyes. Oh, God. Man. Why? Yeah. By the throat. Why? Get out of here.

Starting point is 00:03:44 What's she going to do? Oh. She, like, kind of pivoted for a hot sack. God. Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn. Yeah, I need to look at these actress. The older girl in the orphanage, I definitely, definitely know her from some show.

Starting point is 00:04:07 It might be one of the Mike Flanagan shows, but let me check right now. This was so good. It was, Talisa Bateman was, what's one of the girls' names? Shoot, I just saw it in the credits. You'll see it on IMDB. Bateman, I think, was the. lead girl. It was Linda, and then the other girl's name was...

Starting point is 00:04:26 I can't tell what you're trying to say right now. What are you trying to say right now? Bateman was the lead in this movie. To Leah, Bateman, or something. Okay. Which is very cool. That I'm like, oh, she's related to... What makes you think that they're related? It said it? I just... Who has a... Who has Bateman last name? Everybody? It's a very common last name. Really? Yes. My ex. Everybody on the planet? Really? Weird. It's just a very, very common. That's wild.

Starting point is 00:04:53 I did not know that. Oh, it's very common. Let's see. It says nothing on her IMDB about being related to Jason. She's the youngest of eight girls. Ah, man. It's a Jewish name. You have a lot of Jewish buddies.

Starting point is 00:05:11 Oh, okay. Yeah, Beaman's pretty popular, but we can look and see. Yeah, Talitha. She was so, so good. But she's not the one that I recognized. The one that I recognized was the sister that was the older sister. I'll keep calling them sisters, but it felt like a family to me. Yeah, the older girl who I called a biash.

Starting point is 00:05:34 Yeah, who was mean in the beginning. She was being a little bit of a biash. Yeah. My name is Grace Caroline Curry. If my internet was working, I could tell you what show I know where from, which I'll tell you momentarily. Who was your favorite of the girls? Oh, Shazam. She plays Mary in Shazam.

Starting point is 00:05:51 Jesus Christ. I mean, I can't believe I didn't pull that. She plays Mary. In the movie? Yeah. Oh, okay. She's Mary and Shazam. She, wow, that is such a not good pull for me.

Starting point is 00:06:02 That is crazy. I can't believe that I didn't pull that off. She also is from revenge. She plays a younger Victoria. I know this actress. I've seen her for years and years and years and years. Yeah. We're showing by Roxy.

Starting point is 00:06:15 I feel, I mean, obviously, the leader, girl's my favorite but other than that her her friend her bestie her bestie is in horror stuff like she yeah Linda I've seen her before I think in another horror film that I watch and she was great um I think horror is like maybe her genre um I really she she's great and she has been in um haunting of Hillhouse

Starting point is 00:06:40 yep she was in the wrath of Becky modern love that's a great movie I've never seen it. The Wrath of Becky, yes. So good. She's Becky. Yes, and she is older. And that is an indie that came out last year, and it is a wonderful horror, and everybody

Starting point is 00:07:01 should watch it. Oh, that's great. Okay, I will. She was in that. She's in Fall of the House of Usher, which I haven't seen. It's the one Mike Flanagan project I haven't seen. The name Lulu Wilson is just so great. But the reason I feel like this one was above him.

Starting point is 00:07:16 Beyond Great is because this is a David Samburg movie. They got like an unbelievable director to do this. Which makes sense that Mary was the same person because David Sandberg directed Shazam. Oh, he did. Okay. What else is he done? Man, I can't believe I didn't pull that. He did both the Shazam movies, so Shazam and Shazam Fury of God.

Starting point is 00:07:37 He did Lights Out. He did Annabelle Creation. He did, those are the ones. but there's something that he did before the before he was directing he was he's been working forever let me see what the other notable projects are yeah i i also really liked how um we followed the the dad like they gave the dad who lost the kid a very specific mood to follow and he scared me from like just even from the top obviously obviously was directed that way of like he seemed domineering right and like he could switch at any

Starting point is 00:08:22 point and i really liked how that was played and then he obviously tries to help the girl but in the end you know he ends up he ends up dying and also the spookiness with the wife and like the freaking mask that was so creepy weird so he is anthony lapaglia who was the star of without a trace which makes again perfect sense they recognize him because he is a tv man yeah really, really talented. There was not one actor that I was like, they didn't blow me away. The performances in this really made it,

Starting point is 00:08:53 even down to the little daughter. Yeah. Like, she did such a great job for her very small screen time as well. Right. Everyone just absolutely stellar. The plot was fascinating. I love that we got the first Annabelle movie,

Starting point is 00:09:07 and then we went back for Annabelle creation to see, like, how did we actually get here? I love, you know, the daughter being B and then finding out that was Annabelle. they thought that that was like who they were putting into the doll they thought their daughter was coming in but really that's just not how life works um the demon came through just thought all that was really smart storytelling did samberg write this script i'd be curious to see as well david somebody else gary is or gary i don't know but um yeah gary doberman i'm curious what else did he do do

Starting point is 00:09:38 do you think that he did any of anything else in this franchise oh no but he did do the screenplay for It. Oh! Oh, just 2017? Hell yeah, that's the movie that got me into horror films. He also did the story for, the screenplay for the nun. Okay.

Starting point is 00:09:58 And he did this screenplay for the nun, too, so we'll look forward to that. Okay. He did the screenplay for It chapter two. Oh, he developed a swamp thing, which I actually liked. He did wolves at the door. I didn't see that. He did Annabelle the first one. Okay. Wow. He's done a lot of horror. I love that. And he actually directs Annabelle comes home. So we will be watching him direct to that. Oh, cool. He wrote it and directed it. So yeah. That's kind of exciting. Yeah. I like when someone. We have so many fun things coming on. I know. Like I love it when someone gets to write and direct something because it normally ends up being not always. but a really great film when they can have what they wrote on the page

Starting point is 00:10:46 actually come to life on screen, which is nice. And I also wanted to say that the set design in this, even in the stairs that you could see through them, the stairs and the design of that looks like in a Catholic, when you go into the thing to confess, it looks like a confession thing. That's what I said in there. You did say that? Yeah, that looks like a confession.

Starting point is 00:11:07 Yeah, and then even in the background, you know, the light shining through, the windows are all like, crosses and up-down crosses. Like they added a lot of, like, lore in this environment. If you, like, looked around, it has a lot of those aspects in it, which I enjoy, even though they're just kind of like Easter eggs. Like, you would just be like, oh, they're at this house. But there's a lot in the background to be, like, played with, which I really liked.

Starting point is 00:11:31 And the thing with his freaking hand, that was such a good special effect where his fingers went back. That looked wild to me. I thought that looked awesome. Yeah, I agree. What point did you make before the hand thing, sorry? So that the basically production design, there's a lot of Easter eggs in there of the add to like the lore of this of Annabelle overall that we see crosses in the background

Starting point is 00:11:59 and the way there's like Catholicism is kind of presented. Oh, it was just about the Catholicism. I just think that for me, I know that I don't know whether you guys have seen us do the none yet, but I always prefer when religion is an aspect of the movie but isn't the entire movie. And I really do appreciate like when you're watching and you do see even on the front door, there's the crosses he's holding one and the Bible quotes on the wall. But at first you might not know that it's all of the Bible pages that are on the wall. There's religion all around and there's religion with this being the demon that took over

Starting point is 00:12:37 or when their daughter passes that they're so heartbroken that they're like, we'll do whatever it takes to talk to her again. That's what people do turn to religion. But the entire thing felt very based in our reality.

Starting point is 00:12:50 Correct. Even though it was in an elevated our reality, it didn't feel like this was a place that I have no understanding of. These were grieving parents. They lost their daughter and all of us try to bargain. That's one of the things that happens

Starting point is 00:13:04 when you lose somebody, as all of you, or no. It's like I will or when you're about to lose somebody. I would do this to prevent this. I'll anything. I'll do anything you want just to have one more minute, one more day. So it was such a relatable, relatable, beautiful story. But the truth is that that doesn't exist. We can't have that. We don't get that. Right. So what instead happens is this demonic force and that's where it starts to become more supernatural. But the way to get there, it felt so real to, what any one of us would have done.

Starting point is 00:13:39 So I just felt more grounded in this reality than something like the nun, which is a reality that might feel more grounded for other people who are more religious. But for me, I'm like, I don't understand this entire thing. Right. And I feel like specifically for this movie, it's like the story of, you know,

Starting point is 00:13:57 parents that made a deal with the devil to get their child back. And in the end, it meant losing their life. Right. Both of them. Like, and we don't realize. for body, bro. Totally. And we don't realize that until we're getting, we're kind of thinking, oh, it may be the story of these girls and the orphanage and all that. But then the creation of Annabelle is like that what it truly is about is like bringing this demon in making a deal with the devil

Starting point is 00:14:24 and the terrible things it brings, basically. I got to tell you I'm really surprised that the person who wrote the nun is the same person who wrote this. Me too, because this is very well, I was going to say that because Plot-wise, pacing-wise, this one better. Yeah. And I know that we're like saying we don't know if they've seen our nun reaction or not. I'm not sure.

Starting point is 00:14:50 We watched them the same day for you guys to know and we did like the nun, but it just feels very like two different people, which makes me wonder if there was some stuff cut from that movie or what, because this movie does have 20 minutes on that movie. so maybe with more time that would have been a more a fuller story

Starting point is 00:15:08 yeah because this one has 20 minutes on that movie but the other movie felt the same amount of time and this movie we watched second so you would think this felt longer but this movie flew I also love another thing that the

Starting point is 00:15:19 conjuring franchise is doing which is looping back looping back yeah like they started us off and they're like remember where we are and then by the time we close they're like and remember when this girl killed her parents next door

Starting point is 00:15:33 that's this girl. Totally. Like, y'all thought that out, bids. That was good. Really good. You know what? Now that you brought that up because he wrote both of them,

Starting point is 00:15:43 I'm like, he's a director because it was two different directors, right? Because this, yeah. Yeah. And that normally, I was thinking of that. I'm like, yeah, the director must have made some choices in shooting and in the editing room that. We loved the jump scares in the other.

Starting point is 00:15:56 Well, you guys will see. I don't want to. You guys will see. Yeah. We did love, we did still like the none. There's just differences there. But I did think. that one of the, one of the favorite things was the very end

Starting point is 00:16:06 where it all came back around of this one. So cool. Showed us the exact beginning of the, of the first movie. I love that because now we're really in this universe. They have really chosen to build it out rather than just going like, here's a prequel or a sequel without like having a lot of things to like tie it in. This did a great job of tying it in. I also like to be rewarded for having watched everything.

Starting point is 00:16:35 Yeah. You know, because if you watch this movie and you hadn't seen that, I don't think you would understand 100% of it. But then when you get to that, you would be like, what? Exactly. What just happened there? It makes it fun. It's like an Easter egg for people who start at the beginning and go through the end.

Starting point is 00:16:51 It's kind of the same with, you know, universe like Marvel or Disney or whatever. If you watch all of them, then you see the Easter eggs in the universe. and I like that we got that here with this. Yeah, yeah. I mean, this definitely elevates the entire franchise for me. Like we were talking to the patrons about where this kind of ranks with all the horror movies.

Starting point is 00:17:12 Yeah. And to me, this is my favorite of the congeverse, which brings up the entire congeverse. Right. You know? I agree. I agree. This is definitely at the top.

Starting point is 00:17:24 I thought it was just a really, really great movie with a great plot. And, of course, the ending to wrap it back around. great special facts that hand thing was wild what happened your neck bit the oh nothing so i'm just sitting weird we have been sitting here for a really long time so i'm thinking that we should stop sitting here yeah yeah as i'm starting to like lean and curl over and our we're gonna start looking like the demon with the hands uh but if we don't leave but we love you go to a reject nayshop dot com make sure that you get sweaters follow us on social media you know how to do the deal yeah all that good

Starting point is 00:17:57 stuff and uh we'll see you next time for more of the content verse later rejects Josh Sano Josh You know what I want for Christmas A porcelain doll

Starting point is 00:18:10 made out of Josh Oh A doll comprised of pieces of Josh Or just it looks like Josh That is what I meant I wanted it to

Starting point is 00:18:20 not only look like Josh but I want it to be a taxidermy version of Josh That would be cool I want to stuff you and then put little

Starting point is 00:18:29 lines and stitches to make you look like a doll. People will be like, wow, great looking puppet effects. Wow. Oh, really? It's your dead body. It is. But, you know, people are going to flock to see it.

Starting point is 00:18:42 And it's going to be... Because it's a nutcracker as well. Oh, it's a nutcracker! It's a nutcracker! So we can dress it up for Christmas time. We can sit it in the front yard. We can crack. We can put my nuts in it.

Starting point is 00:18:51 We can do whatever we want. Yeah, yeah. You know, I've always wanted to be a eunuch. What was Eric Banna's movie? you know i just can never stop thinking about australia's greatest import eric export eric banna and import whenever he travels home i assume it was a good movie eunuch yes unic loved stephen spielberg's unik it's one of the best films about not talking about enough not enough really see it come out of search when i try to type it into no yeah it's always at the top of google some other movie comes i

Starting point is 00:19:22 just type the level but josh sano um i hope you have a great merry christmas and you keep cracking nuts, especially the doctors. Oh yeah.

The Reel Rejects - ANNABELLE: CREATION (2017) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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