Scream, laugh, obsess

I'm a midnightist and it's my first time writing in the community.

I sleep quite late which has led to a good number of people questioning the length of time I sleep daily. I'm not just the type of person who checks the time and is like, Oh! It's 10pm, I need to hit the pillow. My bedtime begins much later than that.

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Background image source - was designed using canva.

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My midnights are for reading ebooks, chatting with anyone I find awake or watching movies.

I do write as well but it's not a regular thing as I'm not among the set of people who seek absolute silence inorder to gather their thoughts together. I literally write anytime and anywhere as long as my thoughts are flowing freely.

Throughout the last month (October), I watched a good number of movies than every other month so far this year. Exclusion of the movie Divergent, all the others were horror. Not recent releases but my first time watching them all.

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For the sake of the prompt, I'll pick The Nun as the scariest horror movie I've watched both in the last month and as far as I can remember. I watched it at midnight from bing to finish and it was one thrilling, shrilling night.

The movie is placed among The Conjuring Universe, released in 2018 and directed by Corin Hardy while the sequel came out in 2023 under a different director. It stars Taissa Farmiga, Demian Bichir and Jonas Bloquet who all but played their parts real good.

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Two nuns are shown heading towards a door with the latin inscription above written on it which was interpreted to mean God ends here.

I was still trying to make sense of what that could probably mean when the older nun pushed it open and walked in only for her screams to echo seconds later.

That was all it took for the second nun to run back and complete the plan they had set in motion - kill herself to avoid the demon which surfaced among them, in the form of a nun from possessing more souls and achieving its aim.

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The real deal begins when the Vatican sends in Demian Bichir as Father Burke alongside Taissa Farmiga as sister Irene (yet to take her vows) to investigate the cause of the suicide and the suspected dark forces at the abbey.

Jonas Bloquet as Maurice comes in as a guide who equally turned out to be the one who discovered the dead body. I loved his impressive role and contribution to the ritual of exorcism despite being a civilian.

From the scene at the graveyard where Father Burke got pushed into a coffin by the demon's force and got all covered up like a grave, to the moment they discovered that the twenty-something walking and praying nuns in the abbey were not just possessed but actually dead, I was riveted.

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And the sequel???

Equally mind-blowing with the shrilling vibe successfully maintained. The happenings in the sequel came as a surprise to me with additional characters and parts I can't just forget in a hurry. One of which is the scene at the tunnel-like room,

"From neatly arranged newspaper clippings and posters flipping wildly till the image of the demon nun is formed".

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I didn't know what to expect in the movie as I didn't watch any snippets beforehand. I only saw it while searching for a different horror movie but it was definitely worth my time and the watch.

Ciao!

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Images are screenshots from my Movie box app.
Published: 3:37am

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