Film Review – The Nun II

Every director wants to work, but Michael Chaves has taken brand loyalty to a new level. He’s made three movies, and all of them have been part of “The Conjuring Universe,” with the horror saga expanding rapidly since its 2013 debut, giving the producers worlds of demons and religious issues to explore in many sequels and spin-offs. Chaves has already been involved in 2019’s “The Curse of La Llorona” and 2021’s “The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It,” and he returns to familiar territory with “The Nun II,” a sequel to the 2018 smash hit. Mediocrity was a weight that held down the original gothic chiller, and there’s a similar level of fatigue in the second chapter, with Chaves overseeing a routine horror film that has little motivation to bring anything interesting to the saga. “The Nun II” is mostly a lifeless endeavor from screenwriters Ian Goldberg, Richard Naing, and Akela Cooper, who labor to restart the engine of a one-note idea, getting as far as the heavy recycling of scares before the whole thing limps to a dull conclusion. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com