The Nun
Cloistered religious woman
A 2018 horror film set in the Conjuring universe, following a priest and novitiate investigating a nun's suicide at a Romanian abbey haunted by a demonic entity.
The title refers to the demon Valak, which appears in the form of a terrifying nun.
The film spawned a sequel and established the character as a central figure in the franchise.
- conventReligious sisters' dwelling
- cloistered lifeSecluded religious existence
- habitSettled regular tendency
- veilFabric that obscures
- cloisterCovered monastic walkway
monastery · sister · prayer · silent prayer · abbey · devotion · rosary · chastity · silence · celibate · holy · sacred · religious · wimple · chapel · crucifix · pious · solemn
- Horror FilmsThe Exorcist, Halloween, The Shining, Friday the 13th, Night of the Living Dead
- Horror IconsFreddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Leatherface, Chucky
- 18th-Century NovelsCandide, Dangerous Liaisons, Julie
- Diderot
- French EnlightenmentVoltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu