By Travis Johnson
Between the original trilogy of films and the Annabelle flicks focusing on that creepy doll, James Wan and Leigh Whannell’s The Conjuring is a pretty healthy cinematic horror universe – perhaps not up to Universal Monsters or Freddy vs Jason standards, but not for want of trying. Now this dark little corner of the film world is getting a new tenant in the form of The Nun, a prequel to The Conjuring 2.
“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.
“The Nun stars Oscar-nominated Demian Bichir (A Better Life) as Father Burke, Taissa Farmiga (American Horror Story) as Sister Irene, Jonas Bloquet (Elle) as local villager Frenchie, Charlotte Hope (Game of Thrones) as the abbey’s Sister Victoria, Ingrid Bisu (Toni Erdmann) as Sister Oana, and Bonnie Aarons, reprising her Conjuring 2 role as the title character.”
James Wan is busy putting the finishing touches on his Aquaman movie with Jason Momoa, so directing duties fall to Corin Hardy whose mooted remake of The Crow, which coincidentally was also set to star Big Jase, just collapsed into a heap of shattered dreams and smeared guyliner.
Expect The Nun is Australian cinemas from September 6, 2018.
