Review of The Nun (2018) by Kuehnau — 27 Feb 2019

'The Nun' basically ties into the Conjuring series, by taking a look at one of the "demons" that have been threatening the Warrens ever since the first movie.

What could have been one of the most interesting and unique movies in the series ends up being a slow, crappy, unenthusiastic cash grab. Besides loosely connecting the movie to the first one at the very beginning and at the end, there is almost nothing to be seen of the Warrens. As a matter of fact, the footage that is seen, is all recycled from the first film.

That in itself, wouldn't have been terrible, if the writers and directors for the film had made any attempt at all to actually do some creative writing. The scenes are all over the place, very little of the film makes sense, most of the major characters show very little common sense in the film and the movie does absolutely nothing to try and explain where 'The Nun' came from other than the fact it is sheer evil.

Only to twist the dagger even deeper in the wound, instead of actually having part of the movie explore the possession of "Frenchy" and further explore one of the stories of the Warrens, in a extreme case of laziness, they simply use more recycled footage from the first film to reference the possession. I honestly don't know what happened, The Conjuring was one of the best horror movies I've seen in years and then suddenly all of the other movies after that are simply lazy, crappy, cash cows that do as little as possible to make any sort of attempt at being redeemable films.

Film makers and writers pay close attention, this is how you quickly kill a new promising franchise like The Conjuring.