Annabelle haunts Scott Derrickson over Crooked Man tweet
Nothing good comes from social-media feuds, and now director Scott Derrickson has raised the ire of Annabelle.
Scott Derrickson is best known to horror fans as the director of Sinister, a film that did interesting things with haunted-house tropes. It was part of the wave of “haunting” chillers that included The Conjuring and its Annabelle spin-off series. Now, Derrickson has raised the ire of the iconic doll through a simple yet combative tweet.
Entertainment Weekly provided details on the public feud, which began on August 15:
"Derrickson took it upon himself to suggest that Annabelle’s fellow Conjuring universe villain The Crooked Man was superior to the doll with a tweet which read “Crooked Man > Annabelle.”"
Clearly, the saga of The Crooked Man remains to be told. And, lest I invoke the wrath of the Conjuring Extended Universe elder-gods, I find myself in agreement with Derrickson’s take. The Conjuring 2, in addition to being superior to its predecessor, owed some of its most effective moments to the presence of The Crooked Man.
But, as many of us are well aware, Twitter is the worst place to start a ruckus, and Annabelle: Creation director David F. Sandberg sent Scott Derrickson an ominous tweet reply on the doll’s behalf.
As someone who grew up terrified of the mannequins in Tourist Trap, the use of doll imagery in latter-day horror films does very little for me. Perhaps it’s the toll of age, or the fact that formula dictates jump scares and loud noises over actually making the doll itself creepy.
Still, getting on the bad side of an antique children’s toy with supernatural powers is generally considered ill-advised, especially in a year that’s given us a global pandemic and other apocalyptic harbingers.
Who had “Scott Derrickson makes Annabelle go postal on the general population” for August?
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You can stream the Scott Derrickson film, Sinister on Netflix, YouTube, Google Play, VUDU, Amazon Prime and iTunes.
Do you agree with Scott Derrickson that the Crooked Man is scarier than Annabelle? Let us know in the comments.