The Nun - DVD

Creepy a** movie

wonderful movie , a different kind of horror. I love it...How ever The nun wasn't really scary..I was hoping that this movie was kind of a run off from one of the "Ed and Lorraine Warren'" movie.

Movie was OK. I'm not a critic

Wasn’t that scary

I watched the movie and it wasn't scary at all,the acting was great however the film itself was more frightening when it was being advertised on another disc. This was interesting to view however not that great to watch.

The Nun (Luis de la Madrid, 2005)This is definitely a case of the unstoppable cannonball meeting the immovable post. Brian Yuzna, who produced this stinker, has been incapable of making a decent film in just about forever; Jaume Balaguero, its screenwriter, has been incapable of making a bad one. You wouldn't think the two could mix. But both had suddenly hit an anomaly in the recent past before getting together for this film; Yuzna directed <em>Faust</em> (viz. elsewhere this ish), arguably the best film of his career. Balaguero was just coming off <em>Darkness</em>, by far his worst. And somewhere in the middle, the two met. Neither took the directorial reins, for some reason; Yuzna tabbed Luis de la Madrid, the editor who worked on both those films (as well as a number of other, much better, films, such as Balaguero's first feature, <em>The Nameless</em>, and Brad Anderson's second, <em>El Maquinista</em>), to direct. De la Madrid had never done so before. It is telling, even if you haven't seen this particularly crappy non-horror flick, that he never has again, either. Not only that: it is the only feature-length script to date that Balaguero has produced and then not directed himself. Telling, indeed.We begin in a Spanish girls' school, eighteen years ago. The evil Sister Ursula (<em>Fausto 5.0</em>'s Cristina Piaget), determined to rid the world of sin, keeps an iron fist over her charges until she is mysteriously killed. Fast-forward to the present, and Eve (Icelandic actress Anita Briem, recently in <em>Journey to the Center of the Earth</em>), the daughter of one of those girls, is headed back to the school with a number of her own school friends for a reunion of Sister Ursula's last class. Or so things begin, anyway. Its members begin dying mysteriously, and pretty soon the evidence points to the spirit of Sister Ursula having risen from her grave to get revenge on the students who were (I don't think this is a spoiler, since it's so cliché in horror films like this) complicit in her death.Why Balaguero allowed this script to be taken out of his hands remains beyond my ken. I can't imagine he was shaken by the reception of <em>Darkness</em>; while it was a critical failure (4% at Rotten Tomatoes, and if you look through the thirty-four awards Balaguero has been nominated for to date, you will be hard-pressed to find its name [it IS there, once]), it made back its budget three times over, and that's any film studio's definition of success. Be that as it may, that's what happened, and this was the result. While it's got the odd good point (most of which have to do with Anita Briem, who's supermodel-gorgeous and can act better than the rest of this cast put together), overall it's even more of a mess than <em>Darkness</em> was. Not scary, predictable, with a plot twist at the end that opens holes big enough to drive the entire cast and crew through (as well as the catering tables). If you miss this one, don't lose any sleep over it; stick with the movies Balaguero directed from his own scripts, instead. * 1/2

The acting is nice and the SFX are simple yet effective. The titular Nun is wonderfully creepy - in fact she is so much more interesting than the storyline you want her to win everytime, just so you can see more of her. The plot is predictable and the writing is not great - but the actors give it their all, and carry through with solid characters. If you can wade through the plain script, this is a fun scarefest whenever our lovely waterlogged nun swims through.

Superb spooky movie