By OLIVER RICE

The Nun is set in 1952 Romania, where a cloister of nuns live in the Cârța Monastery and are being attacked by a supernatural force. Sister Victoria is seen escaping the demon by jumping out the window of her room, hanging herself. Her body is discovered the next day by Frenchie (played by Jonas Bloquet), a transporter who brings the nuns supplies. When the Vatican hears of this they send out priest Father Burke (Demián Bichir) and nun Sister Irene (Taissa Farmiga) who has yet taken her vows to discover why the nun would commit one of the worsts sins- suicide.

When I first walked into the theatre I was expecting to be genuinely scared; last time I watched a movie in this franchise I left the movies feeling completely numb, but I left this movie feeling unnerved rather than frightened. The unsettling imagery of the demon nun as well as the crumbling abbey is the only positive I’ll give this movie. Besides that, this movie had an unclear timeline, terrible dialogue, and a cheesy plot.

What made the timeline unclear was how long the nuns had been terrorized by this demon. The nun that had committed suicide was discovered the next day and the Vatican sent out Father Burke and Sister Irene the same week. Yet, in a scene later in the movie Sister Irene uncovers the dead, mummified body of Sister Oana, a young nun who was alive and well the scene prior. It was mind boggling as a viewer to see Sister Oana, who appears to be the same age as Sister Irene, die and have her body turn and look like it’s been dead for several months.

On top of that, the dialogue wasn’t the greatest; I don’t think much thought went into the script of this movie. The way the characters talked wasn’t realistic enough for me. Not to mention that the only joke told the whole movie was not told well and didn’t do a good job at lightening the movie if that was the goal.

The icing on the cake for me was the plot of this movie: it was really cheesy. It was your usual horror movie where someone goes to investigate somewhere and finds out it’s haunted only to end up defeating the evil. What made it cheesy for this movie was the religious angle it took.

MAJOR SPOILER WARNING: The way that Father Burke and Sister Irene had to defeat the demon was to use the actual blood of Jesus Christ that just so happens to be in the walls of this abbey. How did they figure this out?  The spirit of a young boy Father Burke failed to exorcise terrorizes him and pushes him in an open grave, burying him alive. When Sister Irene got him out they noticed a pile of books in the grave that all happen to be about the demon.

Between the unspecified timeline, subpar dialogue, and cheesy plot, this movie wasn’t the best that I’ve seen. If you do still plan to watch this movie maybe wait for it to come out on DVD and make fun of it with friends to get some sort of entertainment out of it.