The Nun is the newest release to “The Conjuring” horror movie timeline. It is set in 1958 in a Romanian Abbey.

It wasn’t as good as the other related movies but it was still good compared to the other horror movies released during the summer. Movies like “Slender Man,” “Hereditary,” and “The First Purge” were awful horror movies that came out during the summer that had so much potential to be really good but ended up being really awful. I feel like The Nun was also like this but it had a higher budget and some better actors so it was a little bit better.

The characters were decent but had so much they could develop on. We meet a priest who is haunted by his past because he let a young boy die. That young boy somehow is summoned throughout the whole movie and tries hunting down the priest.

We also meet a young nun who hasn’t taken her vows and is sent with the priest to the Abbey. The nun sees visions and thinks it’s a cursing, so she doesn’t take her vows. Until she almost dies and realizes that somehow the visions are good, and she needs to take her vows before they take down the scary Nun in the final boss fight. 

In the final boss fight, they find the blood of Jesus Christ, which is just randomly locked down in the Catacombs of the Abbey, not protected at all. It’s literally not protected by anyone it’s just down there, sitting there. Throughout the whole movie the evil nun could’ve gone downstairs and got the blood of Jesus Christ so they wouldn’t be able to kill her, but it’s a horror movie so the Nun didn’t.

After the Priest, young nun, and Frenchie, the man who randomly showed back up because he felt bad for leaving the young nun and the priest at the Abbey, find the blood of Jesus Christ. They find the scary Nun and have a huge fight, where the young nun spits the blood of Jesus Christ on the other scary nun, and the blood gets all over the Nun and in the water.

We think that the Nun dies. She actually somehow possessed Frenchie and this is where we get caught up with the Conjuring timeline. In the first Conjuring, we see a video of a man possessed and he touches Lorraine Warren and she sees a vision of her husband Ed getting stabbed through the heart by a nun. We understand that this possessed man was Frenchie.

The movie was full of predictable jump scares, so you couldn’t really understand the plot of what was going on at all because every time you were putting things together another predicted awful jump scare would pop up and you would get lost. I feel like if this movie would have deleted some jump scare scenes and focused on the plot more, the movie could’ve been a lot better than it was but they didn’t.

I rate the Characters and the Character Development a C+ because the cast was pretty good, especially Taissa Farmiga, who plays Sister Irene and Demian Bichir, who plays Father Burke the priest. I also enjoyed the lady who played the Nun; I think she did a very well job with trying to scare people.

I rate the plot of the movie a B- because it wasn’t really put together well, but the ending was so good that I have to give it at least a B. The ending of the movie puts all the movies together and confirms that there will be another horror movie related to either “The Nun,” Ed and Lorraine Warren, the demon from “The Conjuring,” or “Annabelle.”

I rate the overall movie a C-. It was an alright movie, but it had so much potential that was wasted in jump scares and other pointless things. I liked the characters and the ending so I rate the Nun a C-.