THE NUN II REVIEW!!!
- Matt Palmer
- Sep 20, 2023
- 2 min read
Studios: Warner Bros/New Line Cinema/Atomic Monster/The Safran Company
Tagline: The greatest evil in The Conjuring Universe
Plot: In 1956 France, a priest is violently murdered and Sister Irene begins to investigate. She once again comes face to face with a powerful evil.
Cast
Taissa Farmiga - Irene
Jonas Bloquet - Maurice
Storm Reid - Debra
Anna Popplewell - Kate
Bonnie Aarons - The Demon Nun
Katelyn Rose Downey - Sophie
Suzanne Bertish - Madame Laurent
Leontine d'Oncieu - Simone
Anouk Darwin Homewood - Celeste
Peter Hudson - Father Ripley
Tamar Baruch - Sister Amara
Natalie Safran - Sister Chloe
Maxime Elias-Menet - Jacques
Pascal Aubert - Father Noiret
Writer: Ian Goldberg (Netflix's Eli; Feat the Walking Dead)
Richard Naing (Netflix's Eli; Fear the Walking Dead)
Akela Cooper (M3GAN; Malignant; Hell Fest)
Director: Michael Chaves (The Conjuring: The Devil May Me Do It; The Curse of La Llorona)
Rated R for violent content and some terror (110 minutes)
For quite a few years, I have been a big fan of The Conjuring Universe. All of the movies in this franchise does an awesome job bringing on the scares and can be quite intriguing ... maybe except the first Annabelle movie from 2014. Even The Nun really wasn't that bad and I just re-watched The Nun (2018) for the first time in a while a few nights ago.
Not long ago, I finally had the chance to check out this horror sequel The Nun II. And, even though it does have its flaws here and there, this sequel is still really entertaining and is slightly better than its 2018 spin-off.
The Nun II delivers some really good scares and can get really tense. There are quite a few scenes that can make you jump and the once scene that involves the supernatural entity trying to get one of the children on a staircase is one of the scariest moments in the entire movie.
The horror sequel dives into more of the mythology of the Valak character, which makes the character more interesting. I think this is almost a repeat of the Annabelle spin-off series -- the first spin-off is only meh but its sequel is a lot better.
If you stay during the credits, there is a small scene during the middle of the credits that gives you a little tease of either a fourth Conjuring movie (the recently announced Conjuring 4: The Last Rites) or a potential Nun III (which I'm sure will be announced down the road).
Which movie did you enjoy more: The Nun or The Nun II?
Here are some fun tidbits for The Nun II!
The movie was filmed at an actual abandoned church in France.
With the release of this film, director Michael Chaves has now directed most films within the Conjuring Universe: The Curse of La Llorona (2019), The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021), and The Nun II.
Valak only appears in her "nun" form for a total of 2 minutes and 57 seconds.
In the flashback where Sister Irene (Taissa Farmiga) says her goodbyes to Maurice (Jonas Bloquet), she gives him a bag of tomato seeds for his garden. This is because at the end of The Nun (2018), Maurice had said that he wanted to be a tomato farmer for a while, just like his father.
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