‘Annabelle: Creation’ delivers old-school scares

Among horror franchises, “The Conjuring” and “The Conjuring 2” are among the smartest, and scariest, titles on the shelf — while their spinoff siblings, the idiotic “Annabelle” and the new and slightly sharper “Annabelle: Creation,” have labored to catch up.As the title implies, “Annabelle: Creation” is a prequel, providing the origin story to the creepy doll that channeled a demon (and a Mansonlike cult) to ’70s suburbanite