2018 · horror · supernatural
The Nun
Directed by Corin Hardy1h 36m2018
A priest with a dark past and a novice nearing her final vows are sent by the Vatican to Romania to investigate a nun's death and face a demonic force.
Our read: The Nun (2018) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive horror · supernatural entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme horror / supernatural, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
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