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    Review: 'The Nun' is a jumpy but minimally scary extension of 'The Conjuring' universe

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Sep 06, 2018 4 minutes

    The scariest nun movie you could make right now would be a documentary about the sisters of the now-defunct St. Joseph's Orphanage in Burlington, Va., whose alleged crimes against children were the subject of a recent BuzzFeed News investigation by Christine Kenneally. Next to the sickening accusations that nuns tortured, maimed, sexually abused and even killed some of their young charges, the villain in the blood-slicked supernatural freakout "The Nun" - a shrieking demon in sacred vestments and grotesque face paint - doesn't even begin to curdle the blood.

    I don't invoke the subject of real-life abuse lightly; during the brief, dull-ish stretches

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