While the movie universe-building template has continued to boom in the superhero department, James Wan has been carefully branching out a horror universe in his retro-themed Conjuring series. First came the Annabelle spin-off, then the Enfield-set Conjuring 2, followed by Annabelle: Creation — and now The Nun. The creepy demon established in The Conjuring 2’s opening sequence is getting its own film directed by The Hallow’s Corin Hardy.
The fifth entry in the Conjuring universe expands the origins of Valak, the wimple-donning demonic entity, in 1950s Romania where exorcist Father Burke and his assistant Sister Irene (played by Taissa Farmiga, younger sister of The Conjuring’s co-lead Vera Farmiga) are tasked with investigating a suicide at a convent. We have an exclusive image from the series, showing Farmiga in a decidedly spooky setting.
Like the other Conjuring films, it’s evoking a bygone era of the genre. “The period and the setting and the scope of it hark back to really classic, old-school, scarlet-blooded horror films,” Hardy tells Empire. “And I loved that the story was a character-driven mystery as well as a scary horror movie.”
The first poster for The Nun has crept online too, which you can take a look at here.
Read more about The Nun in the new issue of Empire, which hits the shelves on 14 June. The film will stalk into UK cinemas on 7 September.
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