And while I love a tip of the hat to a more old school type of horror (more gore and monstrous feelings), I do not like how The Nun delivers it. As we, in almost all scenes, see what it is that should terrify us, in great and gory detail. The Nun fails to deliver this horror of the unknown. The horror of things happening, but not knowing what it is or where it is. This is what drives a good horror movie, it is why the first Paranormal Activity was such a success for example. You'll feel hopeless, just as the characters at that time, but unfortunately these moments are scarce.Īs human being, we find darkness scary, we hate it because we cannot see properly and thus find ourselves in the unknown. As there are a few moments where The Nun is portrayed in such a way that you do feel how great and powerful it is, and the music during these scenes (trust me, you will recognise them when you see them) is incredible. Let's begin with saying that the movie is definitely still worth the time to see. Watch when you're at home on a rainy day with nothing do. There's some creepy/scary enjoyable moments but overall it's very cliche and downright boring at times. Don't think it deserved to hit the big screen if it wasn't going to be directed by Wan. Taissa Farmiga & Demien Bichir are the main characters and give pretty good performances.Īnyway, Overall this movie could've gone straight to DVD or Netflix. They also tried to go with this new trend of adding some comedy into a horror film and it's just badly placed and awkward. I personally think the brief amount of time The Nun was in the Conjuring 00x better than this full length film. So if that's up your alley for horror movies then you'll love this. Up until then it's nothing but jump scare city. Instead we're saturated with filler for the 1st and 2nd act, and FINALLY get something going on the final act. The film had so much potential to give the audience a interesting creepy back story to one of the conjuring's iconic villains. The plot is basic to say the least, it's almost like they just threw it together in 5 minutes to make up a back story for The Nun. In 'The Nun' they're overly planted everywhere in the movie to make up for the fact that the director couldn't keep the audience captivated any other way.

Even when Wan used jump scares, it worked bc the atmosphere was tense and creepy. This film is OBVIOUSLY missing the James Wan touch that we loved in the conjuring universe films.

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