The Nun Review: 2 Ups & 7 Downs

5. The Exposition-Heavy Script

Though the film was promisingly written by It screenwriter Gary Dauberman, it is important to remember that Dauberman also wrote Annabelle prior to hitting big with last year's horror smash.

The Nun is far closer to the quality of Annabelle than it is It, sadly, propping itself up between set-pieces with an embarrassing amount of exposition regarding the movie's characters and the central investigative scenario.

Horror movies of all film types need to show rather than tell, and so the film having audiences sit through relentless, robotic chatter time and time again does it no favours at all.

The amount of lore vomit is so excessive at times it might induce laughter rather than intrigue, if you're not left ready to doze, that is. Speaking of which...