Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker's possessed creation, Annabelle.
‘Annabelle: Creation’ Sizzles, Affirming New Line as a Horror Force
LOS ANGELES — The House That Freddy Krueger Built officially has its horror mojo back.
New Line Cinema, a Warner Bros. division focused on “genre” films, or inexpensive movies that stick to carefully defined categories, achieved its first runaway success in the 1980s, when it introduced the razor-fingered Mr. Krueger in “A Nightmare on Elm Street.” That movie spawned eight sequels, a franchise that took in more than $700 million in North America, after adjusting for inflation.
After a period when other studios dominated the horror business — Lionsgate with “Saw,” Paramount with “Paranormal Activity,” Blumhouse with “The Purge” and others — New Line has lately mounted a comeback. The latest evidence came over the weekend, when “Annabelle: Creation,” the fourth installment in New Line’s “Conjuring” series, arrived to roughly $35 million in ticket sales at North American theaters, easily enough for No. 1.
