The Conjuring Universe: Ranking Every Film

5. The Nun

The newest film from the Conjuring Universe is also easily the worst one.

It's a gluttony of squandered potential, as Valak herself was a breakout success in Conjuring 2, and this film's period setting offered up plenty of opportunities to deliver an entirely different beast of a horror film. Instead, The Nun falls back on the exact same haunted house horror tropes that have been this franchise's bread-and-butter for years now.

The end result is a film whose jump scares aren't remotely earned, and feel more like watered-down versions of things we've already seen done much more effectively. From its inability to pick a narrative lane, to its atrocious editing, to its insistence on inflicting 'Frenchy' on audiences across the globe in the name of a cheap tie-in, this thing is rough.

There's a big reveal in the third act that Jesus Christ's blood (yes, the actual Jesus Christ) is the MacGuffin everyone's been after this whole time, and somehow that still isn't the dumbest thing about this movie.