Directed by:
Corin HardyScreenplay:
Gary DaubermanCinematography:
Maxime AlexandreComposer:
Abel KorzeniowskiCast:
Taissa Farmiga, Demián Bichir, Jonas Bloquet, Charlotte Hope, Ingrid Bisu, Bonnie Aarons, Lili Bordán, Jonny Coyne, Mark Steger, Simon Rhee, Jamie Muscato (more)VOD (4)
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A young nun travels with a priest to Romania to uncover the secrets behind a malevolent spirit haunting a sacred site. (Netflix)
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In the Conjuring series, the first instalment of which is the genre’s biggest success of the decade, I
don’t want to see a young Romanian villager played by a cute American boy who, in the style of Van
Helsing, saves lives by firing a shotgun at the last second. At least not when the film tries to create
the authentic atmosphere of remote Eastern European (and for many viewers exotic) location that has great horror potential. Due to such cheap moves, the film, despite its rich setting and
intense storyline, is only moderately engaging and scary. The work with tension, which is always
better when built up slowly and cleverly, sort of fails to convey the intended ceaselessly scary ride.
But it’s okay as a spin-off, and not as big a failure as the first Annabelle.
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It’s well crafted and packed with ghostly attractions, an addition to a popular universe that never gets boring and that brings some fresh air to its exhausted premise, at least with the setting. However, it’s also crammed with the expected clichés, predictable and incomprehensibly downplayed by moments or one-liners that feel like out of a second-rate action flick. The titular ghost looks cool, but its inability to deal with only three determined adversaries (of which one is a young, squirrelly novice nun and another a village yokel with a shotgun) gradually weakens its aura. Solid work, but it would have been a lot better with a more inaccessible and properly bloody decadent tone. 60%
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This is a generic commercial horror and a quick-brewing franchise, whose only goal seems to have been to take more cash out of the audience’s pockets, and to get a demonic nun into the living room of the Warren couple. The script is therefore just a dark padding without any real story or surprises, but it is blessed with a multitude of tropes such as ‘We’ll move the camera to the side, but then move it right back to reveal a loud jump scare.’ I was most frightened when I checked the time and saw there were 40 minutes left.
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Jan Wan is proving that he’s the unconquerable king of current horror movies about ghosts. Corin Hardy and Romanian locations were a great choice for this horror called The Nun. It’s nice that before, when James Wan invited us to the Warrens’ house, he referred to the story of the demon Valak. So he had to know already then that he or a colleague of his would make a movie about it, because the premise is really good! And I haven’t seen so faithfully portrayed period atmosphere in a horror movie in a while. Shooting the film in Romania definitely didn’t hurt – quite the contrary. I really enjoyed the atmosphere of that monastery.
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The American film The Nun was rather disappointing for me. Instead of playing on the atmosphere, which could be very dense, it ends up playing more on the impression of how the portrayed will appear. It's as if the film wanted to be a spectacle rather than a good horror film, which strikes me as a shame. Suddenly you have the feeling that you've seen what you're watching elsewhere and that it's not really all that imaginative.
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