Those who attend the Sunday mass, will know what it is like to have a bible in your lap’or not!’, stand in accordance to the rhythm of a choir and perhaps sing’or not’. While, sit on a bench and listen intently to the chief priest preach to one’s faith as well as utter few wisps of prayer’or not’.
Its a form of a regular retinue which serves a religion. While, for others it is not the case. However, the question being served to us at this juncture is quite contrary to this scenario all together.
Be it a church, a chapel and an abbey located in a worn out; battle torn and hedged up wilderness in Romania. Does that alter the perspective on my first para?
The answer is "no!". We as viewers are thrown down into a spiraling staircase that is not only 50 years old; but also harbors an ancient evil that could twirl your very last step into a brisk cum basking on normalcy drill or make you take three days to figure out that you’re already down but staring above those days.
Similarly it could bring back memories both good and bad. While, gaping at the mirror in those religious institutions could make you realize, those are what you are living right this moment.
Director Colin Hardy- not a veteran in the genre himself. Could try to make you squeak out a little; fling you on your seat a few centimeters and make your heart stumble to ask you a question, " That happened too quick? I would have liked a little more?". Doesn’t undermine his ability to surprise you with his unobtrusive cum gasp invoking camera angles.
Not in the ranks of class or a form of creator James Wan. Hardy keeps it pretty simple and tries to confuse you into second guessing his jump startles. Which is a small treat in itself! The subtle music by Abel Korzeniowski does swell to balance it up.
There is just the feel of blitz that runs through with adrenaline and begs you to differ with an opinion in favor of’THE NUN’.
Valak is just the bit you would want to view, reminding of her previous terrors that still evoke dark dreams and nightmares. Albeit the shabbiness and set organization that mars her arrival a little.
The plot goes through the disheveled abbey in Romania with many corpses of its previous inhabitants, whose deaths need shedding light into the mystery that breeds in it.
Father Burke(Damien Bichir) does a fine job to enact the sole benefactor; along with sister Irene(Taissa Farmiga) who like her sister doesn’t disappoint in the prowess to prove her worth and role in the story.
Perhaps "Frenchie" or(Jonas Bloquet’s) comic elements could have been trimmed and his daring persona shown a little more. His attempt to warm the heart limps to its end.
Overall and in short, the nun is not short of its horror. I need to say this- To wanna enjoy it to its fullest you need better ambiance.
Spare not a sum less, if you are an hardcore patron of the conjuring franchise!
It just needs your faith in its wee chapel.