Bomb hoax at Delhi high court
NEW DELHI: A phone call about a bomb being planted at the Delhi High Court premises on Thursday morning sent security agencies in a tizzy.
A thorough search over the next few hours and initial investigations later, the police determined the call to be a hoax.
The number from which the call was made to the police control room at 10.54am was registered in the name of one Deepak, a resident of Baghpat in eastern Uttar Pradesh. But his phone call location showed that the call was made from east Delhi’s Tahirpur.
The Delhi Police coordinated with their counterparts in Baghpat and conducted a search at Deepak’s house, where the man was found to be absconding. His familyclaimed that Deepak was an alcoholic and had randomly left home a few weeks ago. Sources suspect that the bomb threat may have been made by Deepak in an inebriated state.
David F Sandberg Talitha Bateman, Anthony LaPaglia
She’s back. The demonic doll from the standalone 2014 feature, Annabelle, returns to wreak havoc in this formulaic prequel.
As the title suggests, this time you also learn how the infamous ‘plaything’ came into being.
Devastated by the death of their beloved seven-year-old daughter, a doll-maker and his wife (Anthony LaPaglia – Miranda Otto) allow a group of orphan girls and their guardian nun (Stephanie Sigman) to live at their farmhouse. The children have the run of their new abode but have been forbidden to enter the deceased girl’s bedroom.
Before you can say ‘Boo’, one of the younger orphans has done just that, setting the stage for a series of increasingly terrifying events.
Taking the reins from John R Leonetti, director David F Sandberg (Lights Out) serves up plenty of religious mumbo-jumbo, amped-up sound effects and other hoary horror movie tropes — flickering light bulbs, creaky doors and other jump-scares.
The preposterous climax ensures that the malevolent doll can strike again in the near future. Talitha Bateman is effective as the possessed, polio-afflicted orphan, but the rest of the performances are uniformly forgettable. As, indeed, is Annabelle: Creation.