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==Plot== |
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In 1956, Father Noiret and Jacques perform their daily chores at a church in [[Tarascon]], France. While investigating a disturbance, Noiret is raised into the air, set on fire, and burned to death, all the while Jacques watches as he holds onto the |
In 1956, Father Noiret and Jacques perform their daily chores at a church in [[Tarascon]], France. While investigating a disturbance, Noiret is raised into the air, set on fire, and burned to death, all the while Jacques watches as he holds onto the priest's rosary. |
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Following [[The Nun (2018 film)|the events at Saint Cartha's monastery]], Sister Irene now lives a reclusive life in Italy. Maurice works at a boarding school in France, where he has made friends with a young Irish girl named Sophie, as well as a teacher and her mother, Kate. Irene has a vision of Maurice asking her to save him, and the next day, she is asked by the Cardinal to investigate a series of deaths across Europe. While Irene travels to Tarascon, Sister Debra, a young noviciate, joins her without permission. |
Following [[The Nun (2018 film)|the events at Saint Cartha's monastery]], Sister Irene now lives a reclusive life in Italy. Maurice works at a boarding school in France, where he has made friends with a young Irish girl named Sophie, as well as a teacher and her mother, Kate. Irene has a vision of Maurice asking her to save him, and the next day, she is asked by the Cardinal to investigate a series of deaths across Europe. While Irene travels to Tarascon, Sister Debra, a young noviciate, joins her without permission. |
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At Tarascon, Irene has a vision where she follows Jacques into an alley but ends up getting choked by Valak, the demon nun. The next morning, Debra tells Irene that she had met with Jacques and he had given her Father |
At Tarascon, Irene has a vision where she follows Jacques into an alley but ends up getting choked by Valak, the demon nun. The next morning, Debra tells Irene that she had met with Jacques and he had given her Father Noiret's rosary. At the same time, in the boarding school, Sophie is bullied by her classmates and locked up in the abandoned chapel of the school where no-one is allowed to enter. She is told to look at a window with a goat on the mosaic, and that if she looks away, the devil will appear to haunt her. The sun shines through the mosaic and makes the eye of the goat shine red. |
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Irene and Debra travel to [[Palais des Papes]] and meet with a librarian who tells them that the demon they are investigating was an angel rejected by God and that the emblem on the rosary is the family crest of [[Saint Lucy|St. Lucy]]. St. |
Irene and Debra travel to [[Palais des Papes]] and meet with a librarian who tells them that the demon they are investigating was an angel rejected by God and that the emblem on the rosary is the family crest of [[Saint Lucy|St. Lucy]]. St. Lucy's family stole her eyes and scattered because she would not die when set on fire. The librarian suggests that the demon is killing the descendants of St. Lucy because it wants an ancient relic, the eyes, which were last known to be stored in a monastery, which is revealed to be a boarding school in the present day. |
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Irene and Debra go to the school to find Maurice in distress with Sophie and Kate. Irene tells Maurice that the demon is inside of him, and is devastated by the revelation, but is then taken over by the demon and attacks Irene and Debra, before being knocked unconscious. Inside the chapel of the school, Sophie shows Irene, Debra, and Kate the game her classmates made her play and Debra uses a flashlight to make the eyes of the goat on the mosaic glow red. The red light points in the direction of where the eyes of St. Lucy are buried and Irene finds the relic. |
Irene and Debra go to the school to find Maurice in distress with Sophie and Kate. Irene tells Maurice that the demon is inside of him, and is devastated by the revelation, but is then taken over by the demon and attacks Irene and Debra, before being knocked unconscious. Inside the chapel of the school, Sophie shows Irene, Debra, and Kate the game her classmates made her play and Debra uses a flashlight to make the eyes of the goat on the mosaic glow red. The red light points in the direction of where the eyes of St. Lucy are buried and Irene finds the relic. |
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=== Box office === |
=== Box office === |
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In the United States, ''The Nun II'' was released alongside ''[[My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3]]'', and is projected to gross $31–34 million from 3,728 theaters in its opening weekend.<ref>{{Cite web |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=2023-09-04 |title= |
In the United States, ''The Nun II'' was released alongside ''[[My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3]]'', and is projected to gross $31–34 million from 3,728 theaters in its opening weekend.<ref>{{Cite web |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=2023-09-04 |title='Equalizer 3' Still On Track For $42M+ 4-Day Opening; Next Up 'Nun 2' Eyes $30M+ Debut – Box Office Update |url=https://deadline.com/2023/09/box-office-equalizer-3-denzel-washington-1235533871/ |access-date=2023-09-05 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}</ref> The film made $13 million on its first day, including $3.1 million from Thursday night previews.<ref name=opening>{{cite web|url= https://deadline.com/2023/09/box-office-the-nun-2-1235540397/ |title= 'The Nun 2′ Answering Exhibitors' Prayers During Strikes With $31M-$34M Opening – Box Office Update|first=Anthony|last=D'Alessandro|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|date=September 9, 2023 |accessdate=September 9, 2023}}</ref> |
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=== Critical response === |
=== Critical response === |
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{{Rotten Tomatoes prose|45|5|85|Scarier than its predecessor, ''The Nun II'' makes for an entertaining addition to the ''Conjuring'' franchise despite not being the most original horror sequel.|ref=y|access-date=September 8, 2023}} {{Metacritic film prose |score=48|count=21|ref=y|access-date=September 8, 2023}} Audiences surveyed by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale, while those polled at [[PostTrak]] gave it a 64% overall positive score, with 47% saying they would definitely recommend the film.<ref name="opening"/> |
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[[Frank Scheck]] of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' wrote, "The filmmaker does a fine job creating a suitably ominous atmosphere (the old-world European locations and Tristan Nyby's gloomy cinematography really help) and orchestrates the violent mayhem, much of it involving terrified little girls, with disturbing relish."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Scheck |first=Frank |author-link=Frank Scheck |date=2023-09-08 |title='The Nun II' Review: Serviceable Sequel Offers More of the Same |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/the-nun-ii-review-1235584574/ |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |language=en-US}}</ref> ''[[The Times]]''<nowiki/>'s Ed Potton gave the film 3/5 stars, saying it "often flirts with ridiculousness", but praised Chaves's direction, Farmiga and Downey's performances and the finale.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Potton |first=Ed |date=2023-09-10 |title=The Nun II review — back with a bang and a wimple |language=en |work=[[The Times]] |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-nun-ii-review-back-with-a-bang-and-a-wimple-cn880xvr3 |url-status=live |access-date=2023-09-10 |archive-url=https://archive.is/8o5OQ |archive-date=8 September 2023 |issn=0140-0460}}</ref> [[CNN]]'s Brian Lowry called the film "a slick if familiar addition to the very fertile ''Conjuring'' universe that, by deftly expanding on the 2018 hit, appears destined to become another cinematic habit."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lowry |first=Brian |date=2023-09-07 |title='The Nun II' conjures enough spooky scares to become a habit |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/entertainment/the-nun-ii-review/index.html |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref> Dennis Harvey of [[Variety (magazine)|''Variety'']] wrote, "In some respects an improvement on its predecessor, in others not, this is finally one more good-enough if unmemorable entry sure to extend the series' life in lucrative fashion."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harvey |first=Dennis |date=2023-09-07 |title='The Nun II' Review: Habit-Forming Ghoul Returns in a Diverting Sequel |url=https://variety.com/2023/film/reviews/the-nun-2-review-1235715650/ |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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Claire Shaffer of [[The New York Times|''The New York Times'']] said the film "runs like haunted clockwork, shoving characters down dark alleyways or abandoned chapels every five minutes with little justification. Scene after scene builds fear and tension, and then a monster appears, and then … not much else, in most cases."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Shaffer |first=Claire |date=2023-09-07 |title='The Nun II' Review: Back in the Habit |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/movies/the-nun-ii-review-sequel.html |access-date=2023-09-10 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> [[The Sydney Morning Herald|''The Sydney Morning Herald'']]'s Jake Wilson gave it 2/5 stars, writing, "The shocks are brief and not too grisly, the dingy Gothic look is as you'd expect, and the mechanical climax steers clear of the more unsettling possibilities that might have emerged if Frenchie's Jekyll and Hyde sides had been meaningfully linked."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wilson |first=Jake |date=2023-09-07 |title=Supernatural thriller is big on shocks, short on nuns |url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/movies/supernatural-thriller-is-big-on-shocks-short-on-nuns-20230906-p5e2h1.html |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}</ref> Mark Kennedy of the [[Associated Press]] gave it 1/5 stars, writing, "A new directing and writing team fails to shock or scare with a color-by-numbers plot and a meandering, languid wannabe frightfest."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kennedy |first=Mark |date=2023-09-07 |title=Movie Review: Oh, sister, what happened? 'The Nun II' is a face-plant horror splat |url=https://apnews.com/article/nun-two-movie-review-d43b83fc3f0c1a7dbab868803d7cc477 |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref> |
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== References == |
== References == |
Revision as of 01:06, 10 September 2023
The Nun II | |
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Directed by | Michael Chaves |
Screenplay by |
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Story by | Akela Cooper |
Based on | Characters by James Wan Gary Dauberman |
Produced by | |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Tristan Nyby |
Edited by | Gregory Plotkin |
Music by | Marco Beltrami[1] |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 110 minutes[2] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $13.1 million[3] |
The Nun II is a 2023 American gothic supernatural horror film directed by Michael Chaves, with a screenplay written by Ian Goldberg, Richard Naing, and Akela Cooper from a story by Cooper.[4] It serves as a sequel to The Nun (2018) and the ninth installment in The Conjuring Universe franchise. The film stars Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet and Bonnie Aarons, returning from the first film, with Storm Reid and Anna Popplewell joining the cast. Peter Safran and James Wan return as producers.
In 2017, Wan discussed the possibility of a Nun sequel and by 2019, Safran revealed that the film was in early development. Cooper was initially hired as the sole writer for the film, before Goldberg and Naing contributed as screenwriters to the final version of the script. Chaves, who had directed two previous films in The Conjuring Universe, The Curse of La Llorona (2019) and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021), was announced to direct the film. Principal photography began in October 2022 in France.
The Nun II was released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on September 8, 2023.
Plot
In 1956, Father Noiret and Jacques perform their daily chores at a church in Tarascon, France. While investigating a disturbance, Noiret is raised into the air, set on fire, and burned to death, all the while Jacques watches as he holds onto the priest's rosary.
Following the events at Saint Cartha's monastery, Sister Irene now lives a reclusive life in Italy. Maurice works at a boarding school in France, where he has made friends with a young Irish girl named Sophie, as well as a teacher and her mother, Kate. Irene has a vision of Maurice asking her to save him, and the next day, she is asked by the Cardinal to investigate a series of deaths across Europe. While Irene travels to Tarascon, Sister Debra, a young noviciate, joins her without permission.
At Tarascon, Irene has a vision where she follows Jacques into an alley but ends up getting choked by Valak, the demon nun. The next morning, Debra tells Irene that she had met with Jacques and he had given her Father Noiret's rosary. At the same time, in the boarding school, Sophie is bullied by her classmates and locked up in the abandoned chapel of the school where no-one is allowed to enter. She is told to look at a window with a goat on the mosaic, and that if she looks away, the devil will appear to haunt her. The sun shines through the mosaic and makes the eye of the goat shine red.
Irene and Debra travel to Palais des Papes and meet with a librarian who tells them that the demon they are investigating was an angel rejected by God and that the emblem on the rosary is the family crest of St. Lucy. St. Lucy's family stole her eyes and scattered because she would not die when set on fire. The librarian suggests that the demon is killing the descendants of St. Lucy because it wants an ancient relic, the eyes, which were last known to be stored in a monastery, which is revealed to be a boarding school in the present day.
Irene and Debra go to the school to find Maurice in distress with Sophie and Kate. Irene tells Maurice that the demon is inside of him, and is devastated by the revelation, but is then taken over by the demon and attacks Irene and Debra, before being knocked unconscious. Inside the chapel of the school, Sophie shows Irene, Debra, and Kate the game her classmates made her play and Debra uses a flashlight to make the eyes of the goat on the mosaic glow red. The red light points in the direction of where the eyes of St. Lucy are buried and Irene finds the relic.
Debra and Kate are separated from Irene and Sophie to protect the schoolgirls from a demon goat. Under the influence of the demon, Maurice escapes and attacks Irene, while Sophie grabs the relic and runs away. Maurice chases after Sophie and causes the bell tower building to collapse. Irene finds Sophie inside, and Debra reunites with the pair. Irene uses the relic against Maurice until he manages to hold it himself. He lifts Irene in the air and sets her on fire, but she does not burn as it is revealed that she is a descendant of St. Lucy.
Irene saves herself by using her memories and love for her mother. She sees wine spilling on the grounds, and soon realises that the school once used to be a winery, and that wine can be turned into the blood of Christ through prayer. Irene and Debra turn the wine into blood and send Valak back to hell.
Cast
- Taissa Farmiga as Irene[5]
- Jonas Bloquet as Maurice[6]
- Storm Reid as Debra[7]
- Anna Popplewell as Kate[8]
- Bonnie Aarons as The Nun
- Katelyn Rose Downey as Sophie[8]
- Suzanne Bertish as Madame Laurent
- David Horovitch as Cardinal Conroy
- Andrew Morgado voices the demonic voice
Additionally, Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprise their roles as Ed and Lorraine Warren in the post-credits scene, using a scene that was cut from The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.[9]
Production
Development
In August 2017, Wan discussed the possibility of a Nun sequel and what its story may be: "I do know where potentially, if The Nun works out, where The Nun 2 could lead to and how that ties back to Lorraine's story that we've set up with the first two Conjurings and make it all come full circle."[10]
In April 2019, it was announced by Peter Safran that a sequel was in development. Safran stated that there was a "really fun" storyline planned for the film and commented that there was an "inevitability to another The Nun movie".[11] Later that month, Akela Cooper signed onto the project as screenwriter while Safran and James Wan agreed to serve as producers.[12]
In February 2022, Taissa Farmiga stated that she had had discussions with Warner Bros. Pictures to reprise her role from the first film while stating that the restrictions on the film industry as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic had delayed the project.[13] In April 2022, Warner Bros. Pictures officially announced the movie as a part of its upcoming slate at the 2022 CinemaCon.[14] The following day, it was announced that Michael Chaves would direct the film.[15]
In September 2022, it was revealed that Ian Goldberg and Richard Naing had contributed as screenwriting co-authors of the most recent draft of the script.[16]
Casting
In April 2022, James Wan confirmed that Bonnie Aarons would be reprising her role as Valak.[17] In September 2022, Storm Reid was cast as a new lead.[16][18] In October 2022, Taissa Farmiga and Jonas Bloquet were confirmed to be reprising their roles from the first film, with Anna Popplewell and Katelyn Rose Downey added to the cast later that month.[19][20][8][6]
Filming
Preliminary production photography began on April 29, 2022.[21][22] Filming was originally scheduled to start on September 5, 2022.[23][4] Principal photography began in France on October 6, 2022,[24] and concluded later that year.[25]
Release
The Nun II was theatrically released in the United States on September 8, 2023, by Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema.[26]
Reception
Box office
In the United States, The Nun II was released alongside My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, and is projected to gross $31–34 million from 3,728 theaters in its opening weekend.[27] The film made $13 million on its first day, including $3.1 million from Thursday night previews.[28]
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 45% of 85 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5/10. The website's consensus reads: "Scarier than its predecessor, The Nun II makes for an entertaining addition to the Conjuring franchise despite not being the most original horror sequel."[29] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 48 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[30] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale, while those polled at PostTrak gave it a 64% overall positive score, with 47% saying they would definitely recommend the film.[28]
Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "The filmmaker does a fine job creating a suitably ominous atmosphere (the old-world European locations and Tristan Nyby's gloomy cinematography really help) and orchestrates the violent mayhem, much of it involving terrified little girls, with disturbing relish."[31] The Times's Ed Potton gave the film 3/5 stars, saying it "often flirts with ridiculousness", but praised Chaves's direction, Farmiga and Downey's performances and the finale.[32] CNN's Brian Lowry called the film "a slick if familiar addition to the very fertile Conjuring universe that, by deftly expanding on the 2018 hit, appears destined to become another cinematic habit."[33] Dennis Harvey of Variety wrote, "In some respects an improvement on its predecessor, in others not, this is finally one more good-enough if unmemorable entry sure to extend the series' life in lucrative fashion."[34]
Claire Shaffer of The New York Times said the film "runs like haunted clockwork, shoving characters down dark alleyways or abandoned chapels every five minutes with little justification. Scene after scene builds fear and tension, and then a monster appears, and then … not much else, in most cases."[35] The Sydney Morning Herald's Jake Wilson gave it 2/5 stars, writing, "The shocks are brief and not too grisly, the dingy Gothic look is as you'd expect, and the mechanical climax steers clear of the more unsettling possibilities that might have emerged if Frenchie's Jekyll and Hyde sides had been meaningfully linked."[36] Mark Kennedy of the Associated Press gave it 1/5 stars, writing, "A new directing and writing team fails to shock or scare with a color-by-numbers plot and a meandering, languid wannabe frightfest."[37]
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