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Nightmare Fuel / Annabelle: Creation

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  • Though it's mainly a Tear Jerker moment, Bee's death is easily taken from any parent's worst nightmare. We don't know the outcome, but having a car trample you point blank (in a scene reminiscent of Pet Sematary) is not pretty.
  • Isolation is a recurring theme in the film, and not just metaphorically. The Mullins' estate is the only household in the general area, stretching to miles in all directions. The predictable outcome in the climax; authorities manage to reach the premises only after Mrs. Mullins is killed and the orphans just barely escape from the demon.
  • And of course there's the main star herself, who first appears looming in the poorly-lit closet of Bee's bedroom. We later find out that the closet was specifically blessed by a priest and has hundreds of Bible pages plastered on its walls.
  • The entire buildup of Janice's second visit to Bee's room, which ends in her being telekinetically flung around, breaking both of her legs.
  • Immediately following above scene, there's the bedwetting horror of someone pushing Janice's wheelchair towards the barn, where the demon finally possesses her.
  • The reason why Mrs. Mullins always wears a porcelain mask? The one time she tried to banish the demon using a Bible and a crucifix, it ripped her left eye out.
    • On that note, how about the scene with Carol and Nancy under the bedsheet, with "Mrs. Mullins" stalking them? You only get the slightest glimpse of her face, but it's enough.
  • Samuel Mullins having his right fingers snapped one by one before the demon fatally smothers him.
  • The orphans rushing to the master bedroom to find Mrs. Mullins bisected, the upper half being crucified on the wall. Said upper half later appears in the basement, comes alive, and almost stops Linda from heading back upstairs.
  • Carol in the barn with the scarecrow. We get a glimpse of black skin and teeth as it tears off its burlap-sack face to reveal the real one underneath it... just as the lightbulb drops out, rendering it in shadow. Then the next one drops out...
    • That Carol is so frightened she resorts to huddling in a ball with her hands over her eyes.
  • The fact that unlike other previous movies in the franchise, the villain gets away scot-free. Crucifixes, Bibles, and Bible chants aren't the demon's weakspots, but its Berserk Button. Three characters in this film carry/speak these in some way or another and all of them are curb stomped hard, one of them fatally.
  • Imagine yourself adopting this seemingly sweet kid who harbors a very powerful demon inside her. And would kill you twelve years later as part of a ritual to claim a baby.
  • The cut to credits scene gives us the pants-soling moment the series had avoided until now: Seeing Annabelle move. A smaller one too: A simple shot of a church door opening... and a shadowy Nun walking towards the camera and then staring at the viewer. It's Valak.

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