10 Film Sequels Destined To Bomb In 2017

6. Annabelle 2

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Annabelle did the business at the box office despite being something of a missed opportunity. Sure, we got plenty of creepy doll for our dollar, but her solo outing was pretty much just a haunted house yarn with a doll sat in a chair throughout.

There is hope that this quickly-put together sequel will quell the critics - Lights Out director David F. Sandberg is an impressive acquisition for the burgeoning franchise - but frustratingly that oh so familiar prequel route has been taken by Warner Bros, with the creation of Annabelle at the forefront and an orphanage full of terrified tykes setting the stage as her first proving ground.

All in all, an Annabelle standalone will never be scarier than those amazing first 15 minutes of The Conjuring, and with horror prequels never really hitting the mark in recent years - Exorcist: The Beginning, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, pretty much anything with 'beginning' in the title - there isn't much hope that we will see a third coming of Annabelle.

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Shaun is a former contributor for a number of Future Publishing titles and more recently worked as a staffer at Imagine Publishing. He can now be found banking in the daytime and writing a variety of articles for What Culture, namely around his favourite topics of film, retro gaming, music, TV and, when he's feeling clever, literature.