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The Nun II: Nun Harder? Nuns on the Run?
That might’ve been more entertaining, since for this sequel to the awful 2018 movie takes place in Tarascon, France 1956, where a young lad kicks a ball, and something spooky sends it back to him. I guess he’s unleashed something or other, since it requires a priest to step in, throw holy water at thin air, and you’ll see that it doesn’t exactly work out too well for him.
In fact, later, we get another caption for Tarascon, France… I can’t remember a point where we went anywhere else?
Along the way, people get possessed and act like zombies, CGI cockroaches are dropped into the proceedings, religious suicides taking place from Romania onwards, and Sister Irene (Taissa Farmiga) is called back into action to look into this all, to which she stupidly accepts, even though it half-killed her last time. At the local school, lots of scary stuff is happening and things go bump in the night, while janitor Maurice (Jonas Bloquet – 1899) is back and creepy AF, and not in the way you might think when he befriends a young female pupil called Sophie (Katelyn Rose Downey).
We keep hearing about ‘the eyes of St Lucy’, who was martyred by a pagan many years ago, and her family rescued her eyes… although, God knows why, since I doubt a pair of detached eyeballs will fare very well outside of living tissue. May as well have just fed them to the dog, if that’s all that was left of her.
Once again, there are dire jump scares, and whenever there’s dialogue, people speak English in cod-French accents. However, the CGI involving a magazine stand was cool, though. The trailer shows a bit of that, but watching it in full pays dividends. A shame none of the rest of it does.
Okay, one bit does make sense…. people keep going to see these! In the space of a week, this $38m budget movie has taken $100m at the box office, so they’ll just keep making them until they become unprofitable.
There’s also a mid-credits scene, for which the details can be found in the video below.
The Nun II is in cinemas now, and is available to pre-order on 4K Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD.
Detailed specs:
Cert: 
Running time: 110 minutes
Release date: September 8th 2023
Studio: Warner Bros
Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1 (Anamorphic Panavision)
Cinema: Odeon Trafford Centre
Rating: 1/10
Director: Michael Chaves
Producers: Peter Safran, James Wan
Screenplay: Ian Goldberg, Richard Naing, Akela Cooper
Characters: James Wan, Gary Dauberman
Music: Marco Beltrami
Cast:
Irene: Taissa Farmiga
Maurice: Jonas Bloquet
Debra: Storm Reid
Kate: Anna Popplewell
The Demon Nun: Bonnie Aarons
Sophie: Katelyn Rose Downey
Madame Laurent: Suzanne Bertish
Simone: Léontine d’Oncieu
Celeste: Anouk Darwin Homewood
Father Ridley: Peter Hudson
Sister Amara: Tamar Baruch
Natalia Safran Natalia Safran
Sister Chloe: Maxime Elias-Menet
Father Noiret: Pascal Aubert
Sister Astrid: Alexandra Gentil
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