BA_Harrison Directed by Luis de la Madrid and produced by Brian Yuzna's Spanish label Fantastic Factory, The Nun is a modestly budgeted, reasonably effective horror that starts off like a supernatural I Know What You Did Last Summer (the '97 slasher is even referenced in this movie), but ends with a neat psychological twist. It's by no means perfect, suffering from some iffy CGI effects and a few dodgy performances from its largely European cast, but it does deliver in terms of creepy atmosphere, and benefits from a couple of fun, gory death scenes.The story, by Jaume Balagueró (The Darkness), sees a young woman, Eve (Anita Briem), travelling to Spain with her friends Julia (Belén Blanco) and Joel (Alistair Freeland) after she witnesses her mother being murdered by a ghostly nun. In Barcelona, Eve searches for clues to help her understand what happened, her investigation leading to the now closed Catholic boarding school attended by her mother 18 years earlier. As she delves deeper into the mystery, Eve begins to suspect that her mother was killed by the vengeful spirit of Sister Ursula, a strict nun at the school who disappeared shortly before its closure.With the ghostly nun only appearing in water, there is quite a lot of not-quite-convincing digital trickery involved, but the nun herself is suitably scary looking, and kills off her victims in some satisfyingly inventive ways, the best being a fatal elevator ride (the lift severing the victim's arms) and a decapitation by falling sheet of glass. Other less memorable deaths include a slashed throat, an impalement on a broken pipe, and the crucifixion of a woman with big hooters and a gimpy leg (the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away).5.5 out of 10, rounded up to 6 for IMDb.

amesmonde Girls in boarding school take revenge on a nasty nun Sister Ursula. Years later, a young woman and her friends must stop the nun's revengeful spirit.Director Luis De La Madrid offers some genuine creepy visuals that will stay with you in this well shot horror, but the fresh faced cast are pretty forgettable. Some dodgy dubbing aside possibly to mask some broad accents both visual and sound effects enhance what could have been simply mediocre affair. Unlike Brian Yuzna's Fantastic Factory Rottweiler or Arachnid this has less B film feel.There's a small amount of gore, a decapitation, amputation arms and the like. In retrospect the CGI was used effectually and the filmed in water effect (from Oscar-winning David Martí and Montse Ribé ) which was later refined in 300 (2006) Oracle scene really makes the Nun eerie. Some of the editing is as choppy and clunky as Manu Díez script. Jaume Balagueró's story with its opening idea and concept is strong, even so Díez screenplay seem to lose focus in the second act and this hampers Luis De La Madrid's offering. As Spanish slasher and vengeful ghost sub genre films go this probably assisted in the resurgence of spate of superior European additions to the genre. Overall, La Monja/The Nun is worth taking a look at for Martí and Ribé's early efforts alone.

awillo this movie has joined a plethora of amazingly horrible horror flicks on my shelf.it's so bad that it's good. that being said, when i'm rich and famous my friend and i are so remaking this movie...and i'm so going to be the nun for halloween next year.yeah, this movie is going up there with bones, crazy lips, uzumaki and any other awesomely bad Chinese/Japanese/korean/thai horror flicks i've seen, cheerleading camp, and every other horrible horror movie out there.yay horror films, yay nuns!

vghb95a I don't usually like to comment on the acting in a movie, because it is the one thing that people who have agenda against a film will go after. In this movie, I will make an exception. The acting in this film are below average all around. I mean halfway into the film, I wonder how the hell did the producer and/or the director gets around casting such an ensemble of people who can't act. Even-though the production value was good, the ill written story just compounded on top of the bad performance of the actors, and there is even a half-hearted attempts to a twist to the ending of the movie, which ends up quite confusing. Is all the Spanish horror films this disappointing?