THE NUN (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Demián Bichir (A Better Life), Taissa Farmiga (The Bling Ring), Jonas Bloquet (Elle), Charlotte Hope (The Theory of Everything), Ingrid Bisu (Toni Erdmann), Bonnie Aarons (Mulholland Drive), Jonny Coyne (Gangster Squad), Mark Steger (The Pact), Sandra Teles (Backwaters), Manuela Ciucur (The Oak), Ani Sava (Samurai Ballet), Jared Morgan (Trackdown), August Maturo (film debut), Claudio Charles Schneider (Shutter Island)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Corin Hardy (The Hallow), director; Gary Dauberman (Annabelle), writer; Peter Safran (The Conjuring) and James Wan (The Conjuring 2), producers; Abel Korzeniowski (Nocturnal Animals), composer; Maxime Alexandre (Annabelle: Creation), cinematographer; Michel Aller (Lights Out) and Ken Blackwell (The Expendables), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In 1952 Romania, a nun at a cloistered abbey takes her own life, causing the Vatican to send Father Burke (Bichir), a priest with a haunted past, and Sister Irene (Farmiga), a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows, to investigate. As they uncover the disturbing secrets of the abbey, both of them soon confront a frightening and malevolent demon that guises itself in the form of a nun…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

That freaky film-stealing demon nun from The Conjuring 2 gets her own movie, which goes more into detail about where she – or it – comes from and how it ends up causing havoc in the world of the living.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER 2018

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