The Nun II
Corey

Review by Corey Patron

The Nun II 2023

½

Watched 08 Sep 2023

this post-James Wan wave of Hollywood horror is irredeemably dead. silence_then_loud-noise.mp3 collides with Beltrami’s DC/MCU score conjuring this horribly flat and misplaced tone of every trope and expectation simultaneously converging on a lifeless rehash of the Blumhouse rut effect that just murdered this big-theater caliber of horror after Saw, Insidious, and The Conjuring spawned an onslaught of unrecognizable regurgitation now regrettably seeping into New Line. The Nun was already scraping the bottom of this barrel—The Nun II sinks its brittle nails into the rust and grates against a coarse surface where an unreasonable amount of digitization of all S/VFX then glosses the film in a frictionless “mystery” with each thread seamlessly refined without a chance at distinction or ambiguity, leaving a laughably charred corpse of what’s essentially just the same D-list exorcism movie we’ve seen since Derrickson made Emily Rose almost twenty years ago, but with a bigger budget to make it look worse. make sure to sprinkle in the necessity to spew chunks of grief into these genre pieces that don’t need it + contrived exposition dumps for spoon-feeding for good measure.

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