Creepy Nuns: Beneath the Habit With Eight Horror and Nunsploitation Movies

With Immaculate and The First Omen just around the corner and The Nun II releasing last fall, scary nuns are back in style. Not all of these movies would quality as nunsploitation in the most technical terms. Exploitation films – movies that ‘exploited’ our tendency to want to see lurid subject matter – proliferated in […]

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The Nun 2 Conjures Up a Few More Scares To Improve Over Its Predecessor

At the start of the summer, the Insidious franchise made big waves at the box office with another sequel, Insidious: The Red Door. Over two years have passed since The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It brought the Warrens back for another entry to the Conjuring universe. Apparently, Ed and Lorraine Warren will be […]

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The Nun Trades Atmosphere For Dumb Popcorn Scares

After months of anticipation and a lean marketing campaign, The Nun finally hit theatres across North America this week. The fifth film in the hugely successful The Conjuring universe, The Nun is currently tracking for the best box office opening in the franchise. Unfortunately, critics don’t have much nice to say on Rotten Tomatoes – The Nun […]

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