jasonpaulcollum

So you know when you're TOTALLY into a movie because the trailer was really good and the movie actually seems to be living up to what the trailer promised...and you're freaked out because it's genuinely creepy and impressed because it's kind of a way cooler movie than you'd expect to see in a direct to DVD movie these days and so you just can't wait for the climax because you need that pay-off... and then the thing goes limp in the last 10 minutes and there's no climax or rendering of where entire the story just went wrong...so you're totally let down and kinda peeved off...? That's what THE NUN did for me last night....

Everything Brian Yuzna (producer) touches lately seems to just end...not conclude...it just stops with some illogical reason for all the cool shite that just took up 90 minutes of your life....

Cool Fx. Decent acting. Moody. Scary at times. Sexy. Then it sucks at the end.

This episode has got to be one of the scariest in television history, ranking with the TV movie TRILOGY OF TERROR (1975) and the original TWILIGHT ZONE episode of "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet." In "Inside the Closet," Roberta Weiss plays a college student who takes a room at a creepy old house because all other rooms on campus are filled. In her room is a little closet door which at first won't open, but then as the story progresses, begins to seemingly unlock itself and each time she finds new items inside.

Each time she enters the closet what she finds only grows in creepiness, then one night something comes out of the closet and scrambles under her bed. As the camera pans down, all we see are two red eyes. It may seem cheesy now, but at the time this was absolutely terrifying to me! When she ultimately discovers exactly WHAT is living in the closet you're skin will crawl and, if you're like me, your hands will immediately cover your eyes!

Lead Weiss is perfect in her role of innocence and plays wonderfully off the idea of a young girl away from home for the first time and the basic fears which accompany that. The monster fx by Tom Savini are among his best. Lighting and shadows and the simple single room set all add glorious amounts of atmosphere.

Easily the best episode of this wonderful series and among TV's finest terror tales ever produced.