I Watch Films: The Nun
I’ve now watched two and a half films in the Conjuring series (“Conjureverse”) and the two complete were both prequels. This is set the earliest; in 1952 a nun is found hanged from the main entrance to an abbey in Romania by the delivery man, Frenchie (he’s French Canadian). The Vatican send a priest with some experience in weird goings on and, as the nuns are cloistered, a postulant nun who has previously had visions.
The abbey was built on a site of great evil and so the nuns engaged in perpetual adoration; unending prayer (in shifts) to keep it at bay. Unfortunately bombing in the war may have released it.
I say may, obviously it has, and nothing that occurs in the convent can be trusted. There’s some cool stuff, some weird stuff, slightly too many spooky nuns appearing in the background as the camera moves, a fairly cool revelation and the Blood of Jesus Christ.
Finally there’s a coda, where the Conjure-couple give a lecture in the 70s that ties it into the greater series. I’m not up to speed on that.
Watch This: For a fairly scary horror film with an actually new (to me) use of the cross.
Don’t Watch This: If Nuns really really scare you
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