The Nun (2018): Jump Scares and Wasted Potential - REVIEW

Now that "The Conjuring" franchise has been announce to be officially over, they had to retire the Warren's at some point, decided to watch the entire franchise a movie per day and chronologically have to start with "The Nun (2018)", this thing was kind of a mess if we being real about it, another prequel to The Conjuring universe that just does not deliver the same punch as the original movies do. The whole thing takes place back in 1952 Romania, at this creepy monastery, where a nun kills herself and the Vatican sends Father Burke and Sister Irene to investigate what the hell happened there, sounds good on paper but it kind of falls apart after sometime because honestly this demon aside from scary didnt feel like a threat to anyone's soul. The biggest problem with this movie is that its just one jump scare after another and Im a fan of the franchise so Im big bias and I know many might want more than just cheap scare jumps that you can literally see them coming from a mile away and after the fifth or sixth time someone gets attached by something jumping out from behind them, it gets old real fast. Taissa Farmiga does her best as Sister Irene, and she actually looks so much like Vera Farmiga, from the main Conjuring movies, that it makes perfect sense she was her younger sister but even good casting cannot save boring characters, that you just do not care about at all, like I kept waiting to feel something for these people but it never happened for me. The one bright spot is this dude they call Frenchie, who with the little part he got becomes way more important and not only for his movie in specific but others in the future, for that guy you are going to care about like he is the only character that really commits, made him also way more fun to watch.

• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5814060/
• Platform: HULU

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The story are Romania sounds cool enough at first, you got Father Burke who was this priest investigator that the Vatican sends out to check on weird supernatural stuff and Sister Irene, whos not even a full nun yet that part felt like a joke to be hones because she was still in training or whatever they call it. They get sent to this abbey in Romania because some nun hung herself and the Vatican is like tf how that going to happen on our watch, we need to figure out what's going on over there so off they go with Frenchie who was this French Canadian guy that found the body and knows the area pretty well. The hole visuals of the place looks amazing, super gothic with all these crosses in the cemetery and fog everywhere it was like the perfect scene for a movie like this, to complement the scenery there is this big creepy castle type building, thats supposed to be the monastery, it really does look like something out of an old classic monster movie. The main problem of the movie is been repetitive because once the scary stuff starts happening its just the same thing over and over, quiet hallway with someone walking around holding a candle then BAM loud noise and the nuns face appears or some demon thing jumps out at them. When the same formula keeps going you start to see the pattern and it stops being scary anymore, the joke is over as it just becomes too predictable, the not scary parts of the movie are way more interesting and what kept me watching.

By the end I was just disappointed but also entertained and laugh a couple of time, the demon was scary looking but was not a movie that gives you nightmares, very classic cliche crosses turning upside down and dark figures in hallways and people getting thrown around by invisible forces, all stuff we have seen done way better, if they had only included something or someone very dramatic getting possesed and tormented during the most part of the movie like in the other Conjuring movies. The whole climax feels more like an action movie with everyone running around this flooded chamber, fighting the demon, instead of actual horror, Frenchie even shows up with a shotgun at one point trying to shoot ghosts and I was like wtf but even that felt more natural because its that defense, horror and ignorance at the same time. The very last scene tries to connect it to the first Conjuring movie by revealing that Frenchie is the guy who got possessed that Ed and Lorraine Warren had to exorcise, they show the demon leaving a mark on his neck so you know he was gonna get taken over later, its supposed to be this oh damn moment but it doesnt hit because of how the movie was developed, like they were trying way too hard to throw you this bone at the end to tie everything in the franchise together. The Nun had potential with this awesome looking scenery and the look of Valak, who was very creepy looking, the makeup is great, but good visuals cant carry a whole movie specially when there is nobody to play the over dramatic part as the script and pacing are this weak and repetitive. Maybe a 7 out of 10 for me just because Im bias but I can understand why it got destroyed on the internet, easily the weakest entry in The Conjuring series.

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