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Did anyone think that the more successful "Universe" series after MCU was going to be a Conjuring universe and not the DCEU? Was this even intentional or did it happen organically? Even Universal's Dark Universe failed to generate steam. The Nun is another spin-off of The Conjuring movies. After the success of Annabelle and it's own sequel (prequel), The Nun was put into production. Now we have a third Annabelle movie and what looks to be another spin-off with The Crooked Man coming. Throw The Conjuring 3 into the mix and that is 8 freaking movies (maybe 9 from another one I don't want to spoil).
The Conjuring was successful for a few reasons, one of them was James Wan. So when these spin-offs are coming and you don't have a talented eye behind the camera, it drags itself down into generic bad horror. The first Annabelle was terrible, but made enough money to warrant a sequel. With the sequel they actually got someone who has some talent and made it a decent entry. We get it, dolls are creepy and the opening to The Conjuring was scary enough for people to want to see these movies. Move onto the sequel and we get another creepy image in The Nun. One of the more memorable horror sequence in The Conjuring 2 features a painting of a nun and again, people thought this scary image deserved its own movie.
Scary images alone, do not mean you can craft a story around it. The Nun fails on many fronts and the most egregious one is being scary. There are scary images of nuns in the background, but how many movies have done this? It's not something new, it's something expected and tiresome. There are only so many times you can throw a nun in the background of a scene before it becomes boring. That's the one and only image they had in this movie and they ran with it. A lot of the movie is covered in darkness, making it hard to see what's happening. People confuse darkness for scary and they bathe their films in black. It doesn't work.
A scary image is scary, but to make it terrifying you have to give it substance. The Nun has no substance. It's obvious storytelling from the get-go with characters we couldn't give to holy poops about.I love the fact that they try desperately to have a "Oh wow, that's so cool" moment to tie this film in with the original, but since they literally change the actor playing the particular character, it makes no sense. Just like the inane story in this garbage.
The Nun
Did anyone think that the more successful "Universe" series after MCU was going to be a Conjuring universe and not the DCEU? Was this even intentional or did it happen organically? Even Universal's Dark Universe failed to generate steam. The Nun is another spin-off of The Conjuring movies. After the success of Annabelle and it's own sequel (prequel), The Nun was put into production. Now we have a third Annabelle movie and what looks to be another spin-off with The Crooked Man coming. Throw The Conjuring 3 into the mix and that is 8 freaking movies (maybe 9 from another one I don't want to spoil).
The Conjuring was successful for a few reasons, one of them was James Wan. So when these spin-offs are coming and you don't have a talented eye behind the camera, it drags itself down into generic bad horror. The first Annabelle was terrible, but made enough money to warrant a sequel. With the sequel they actually got someone who has some talent and made it a decent entry. We get it, dolls are creepy and the opening to The Conjuring was scary enough for people to want to see these movies. Move onto the sequel and we get another creepy image in The Nun. One of the more memorable horror sequence in The Conjuring 2 features a painting of a nun and again, people thought this scary image deserved its own movie.
Scary images alone, do not mean you can craft a story around it. The Nun fails on many fronts and the most egregious one is being scary. There are scary images of nuns in the background, but how many movies have done this? It's not something new, it's something expected and tiresome. There are only so many times you can throw a nun in the background of a scene before it becomes boring. That's the one and only image they had in this movie and they ran with it. A lot of the movie is covered in darkness, making it hard to see what's happening. People confuse darkness for scary and they bathe their films in black. It doesn't work.
A scary image is scary, but to make it terrifying you have to give it substance. The Nun has no substance. It's obvious storytelling from the get-go with characters we couldn't give to holy poops about.I love the fact that they try desperately to have a "Oh wow, that's so cool" moment to tie this film in with the original, but since they literally change the actor playing the particular character, it makes no sense. Just like the inane story in this garbage.