The NUN

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Critic’s Rating: [usr 3]
The Nun Story: This prequel to the ‘ Conjuring’ franchise features a Catholic priest and novice nun sent by the Vatican to investigate a mysterious suicide in 1952 Romania.

Starring:

Taissa Farmiga as Sister Irene
Demián Bichir as Father Burke
Jonas Bloquet as Maurice “Frenchie” Theriault
Bonnie Aarons as Valak / The Nun
Charlotte Hope as Sister Victoria
Ingrid Bisu as Sister Oana
Jonny Coyne as Gregoro
Mark Steger as The Duke
Sandra Teles as Sister Ruth
Manuela Ciucur as Sister Christine
Ani Sava as Sister Jessica
Jared Morgan as Marquis
August Maturo as Daniel
Claudio Charles Schneider as Demon
Michael Smiley as Bishop Pasquale

Movie Facts: The Nun is a spin-off of 2016’s The Conjuring 2 which made over $102 million in domestic box office and has a Metascore of 65.

Summary: When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together they uncover the order’s unholy secret. Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of the same demonic nun that first terrorized audiences in The Conjuring 2, as the abbey becomes a horrific battleground between the living and the damned.