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Horror fans first met everyones favorite demented doll with pigtails in 2013s The Conjuring, and since then, Annabelle has gone on to star in her own 2014 standalone movie. Now, the prequel Annabelle: Creation is investigating her origins, and unsurprisingly theyre not exactly tea parties and rainbows.

Creation centers on a couple in the mid-1950s (Anthony Lapaglia and Miranda Otto) who turn their rural farmhouse into a girls orphanage. It isnt long, however, before their late daughters doll Annabelle starts wreaking havoc, and director David F. Sandberg (who helmed last years horror hit Lights Out) says he wanted to take advantage of the films eerie, isolated setting.

First of all, its great when you can make a horror movie and there are no cell phones, he says. But I just like the idea. Period movies, for some reason, just feel more ripe for horror movies. Lights Out was all shot on location, but this time, we shot on a soundstage at Warner Bros., and we were able to build this entire house and design it just the way we wanted it this old farmhouse that was sort of dilapidated and sort of worn down.

As for Annabelle herself? Shes just as creepy as ever even when the cameras arent rolling.

There were journalists interviewing me in my office when we were working on this, and they had to cover up the Annabelle doll that was sitting there because they were freaking out, Sandberg says with a laugh. And the same thing now, we have [an Annabelle] doll at our house that we have to hide away because people freak out when they see her.

Annabelle: Creation will hit theaters Aug. 11.

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