User reviews

The film starts with the young group being stranded near the old church where the car keys are lost . Apparently it's going to rain as it's thundering but all I could see were clear skies and sun shining bright. I knew early on then, I was in for a good laugh.

VERY slow moving and it seems it takes forever for anything to happen. I actually ended up fast forwarding (something I rarely do) to get to some, any kind of action. By the time things started to pick up, it was over.

Sister Monday was creepy, but just needed to do more.

Disappointing.

Terrible graphics, terrible plot, waste of time. It was too fake to enjoy.

This film reminds me of my younger days when I'd borrow a book from the library simply because it had a cool cover only to find out later it sucked.

The acting in this movie is some of the worse I've ever seen. Anyone who gave this film more than two stars is probably related to someone who has worked on the set. The only creative thing I saw in this movie is the nun's weapon to hack off her victims; other than that; it's very childish and stupid. Lucky to get one star.

I have to say, I am on the fence about this one. The film is a standard horror film that stays within traditional horror tropes. It is a little to familiar, with a lot of the material having been seen and done before. And yet, it the cinematography is good, it taps into that comfortable horror styled atmosphere, and it offers a somewhat memorable baddie in Sister Monday.

With "A Nun's Curse" I think my biggest complaint is just how long it takes before anything significant happens. For the first 40 or so minutes it is filled with too much dramatic dialog, exposition and melodrama that really eats into the runtime. But from there on things get somewhat interesting and the story transitions into a full on horror story. Again, the atmosphere is cool. I found myself really starting to get into.

The horror elements are pretty well done. There is some stereotypical paranormal styled moments that are your standard gimmicks used. The best part is that the kills are done with practical effects that look good. The down side that the time starts running out on the film so the kills seem rushed.

Overall, as much as I wanted to really like "A Nun's Curse" there was just more that I didn't like. I enjoyed Felissa Rose as Sister Monday but it takes too long to get her on screen. There is a "surprise" twist to the ending that will become clear before it is intended to, but it is a cool one. Unfortunately instead of ending the film there the story goes for another, weaker ending that kinda ruins things. As always check it out but don't expect much. It has some moments that are interesting, but not everyone will enjoy this one.

Very boring and the nun looks like a kid was painting her for halloween...

Well , at least its only 1hour 10minutes long . nothing interesting, its low budget, its slow, nothing really happens until the end but i liked the characters and the story it was going...

it could be interesting, but still not worth watching...

-when you lock yourself out of the car for gods sake.. break the window and get in LOL -dont take off your shirt when its night and probably freezing

This is quite possibly the worst movie I have ever seen. The actors weren't good and the plot was horrible. The entire movie was just bad. If I could rate it a 0/10 I would.

I passed this one up originally because I'm not too into the "creepy nun" sub-genre. But the trailer looked good so I picked it up. It exceeded all my expectations and is a very fun horror flick! It has a great buildup to the eventual reveal of the nun, which is so effective that you wonder if she's even bad at first or if she's even a real thing. And then...bam! The dialogue is actually well written and funny. It's got an old school vibe to it at times and is set in a creepy and atmospheric abandoned jail. The pacing and suspense was very well done and I absolutely loved the ending which was a little different than I expected and way better than the usual way this genre wraps up. I'm so glad I got this one and will show it to my friends now. If you haven't seen the trailer, don't watch it as I think it spoils some of the reveals and buildup that are much better earned from the natural tension in letting the film unfold. A director I'm going to watch for what's next.

Heading out for a weekend getaway, a group of friends forced to stop at an abandoned, burned down church once they get stranded by a potential storm in the area where they realize the stories about the area being haunted by the spirit of a vengeful nun is true and must try to get away from the church alive.

Overall, this was a pretty enjoyable effort. Among the better aspects here are the early setups that give off a rather enjoyable old-school style setup for the main film to get the group trapped and get the film going. With the initial stop at the abandoned ruins and the backstory about the events that happened there in the past coinciding with the group getting locked out and forced to find shelter, there's a fine atmospheric touch here that goes a long way to getting for a realistic manner of getting the group stranded in the area. From there, the film gets quite enjoyable with the various flashbacks and encounters showing the group not only confronting the nun but seeing the exploits in her past. The repeat of the early scenes with her as a child confronting the figure around her room which goes into greater detail on these scenes than before which helps to make for a bigger impression about the spirit, while creepiness of the location makes the flash appearances of the nun walking in the distance tormenting them somewhat chilling. The series of quick ambush-style kills for the various encounters that set up one of the greatest twist endings in the scene serve this one well with the way this turns everything around unexpectedly. Overall, these here make for a rather fun time. This one does have a few issues. Among the more noticeable factors here is the lame cliche of the troublesome and antagonistic group that is supposedly family and friends spending nearly the entire time taking potshots and trading insults with each other. It's tiresome and lazy to keep harping on the same series of overdone cliches about the bookwormish sister with freaky habits being made fun for those instead of more traditional interests like everyone else in the group who see that as reason enough to pick on her. It doesn't speak to the fact that it's a group that hangs out frequently with each other if that keeps popping up in a film like this. The other big issue here is the rather curious amount of time spent on the group doing absolutely nothing once they arrive at the church and decide to stay there. Not only is this filled with a lot of the arguing and insulting they do to each other but it also manages to keep the main nun off-screen for large portions of this time as they focus away from her targeting the group. Since the majority of the scenes are simply stating the legend or splitting the friends up to focus on their issues, it seems like forever before the rampage starts and then rushes through with killing them in short order due to the constricted running time and how late into the film that all starts. That makes for enough to hold this one down somewhat.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Violence.

Right, well of course I had zero expectations to the 2019 horror movie "A Nun's Curse" from writer and director Tommy Faircloth, given the movie's title and probably cash-in on "The Nun". And the fact that I hadn't ever heard about the movie didn't really help set up the expectations much either.

But, in all fairness, with "A Nun's Curse" being a horror movie, and one that I hadn't already seen, of course I found the 73 minutes to sit down and watch it.

The storyline in "A Nun's Curse" was a bland and mundane one. Writer Tommy Faircloth didn't exactly produce an overly great script here, and the narrative was somewhat slow paced. And with not an abundance of thrilling, scary or interesting things happening as the movie slowly progressed, it was getting somewhat difficult to sit there and keep feigning an interest in the movie's narrative. Sorry to say so, but that is what I felt when I watched "A Nun's Curse".

It was rather easy for my attention to dwindle on the events in the storyline, as the narrative was so slow, uneventful and mundane. But thankfully, even if your attention is elsewhere for some time, you can easily return to the screen and still be up to speed, as you haven't missed out on anything crucial to the narrative.

Needless to say that I wasn't familiar with any actors or actresses on the cast list in the movie, aside from actress Felissa Rose - yeah, I have watched enough low budget movies to know who she is. The acting performances in the movie were actually fair enough, given the limitations of the script and storyline imposed on the cast ensemble.

I was amazed with the absolute absence of anything even remotely scary in the narrative throughout the course of the 73 minutes that the movie ran for.

There is a lot of questionable horror movies with a nun-theme to it, and "A Nun's Curse" proved to be another such movie in that collection. There was nothing outstanding or memorable about the movie.

My rating of "A Nun's Curse" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

The problem with this movie is that the majority of the actors and actresses are playing actors in their early to mid-20s when they are clearly in their late 30s to early 40s. Why not have people play their own age or at least get actors to look like they are in their early to mid-20s??? That killed the movie from the beginning, casting. The premise of the movie is not terrible but it does drag as the majority of people stated earlier.....

Bad acting, special effect, plot...I mean you name it this clunker has it all-and not in a good way. Just a mess. I guess that's why it's a freebie on Amazon. Anything worth watching you have to pay for. This crapper isn't even worth watching even if your alternative is a root canal without anesthesia.

I gave this movie a shot - I really liked the Nun movies in the Conjuring series so maybe this would have a similar feeling?

No, absolutely not.

The prison setting itself is pretty cool looking, and I think this COULD have been a great film if directed properly.

Most of it was filler, and you don't really get any attachment to the characters. Ashley's acting gave me Kristin Stewart flashbacks in Twilight...

It took over an hour for any action to be presented, only for the finale to be very underwhelming.

The Nun's.look itself - 7/10. I could see potential, a shame it wasnt met.

I a, just learning, but, this film looks like they shot it with the wrong lens. It seems to be filmed with a more portrait type lens, that makes it to upclose, instead of a movie style lens giving it a more atmospheric feeling. Maybe it can be achieved with the type of camera used also. There's a few jump cuts in the editing. Make these couple corrections, and I belive it comes together.

I thought it opened okay, but halfway through I was using the fast forward button. No plot, no real build-up. Very disappointing in the horror scare factor. Would not recommend it.

Always fun to snag an independent film. This one was good. Fair script, good acting. Not a bad Friday night flick.

This was another film that I didn't really know anything about coming in. A guy I know told me that he had seen some of the director's earlier work and was wondering if this film would be similar to that. To open this, the director was in attendance and did a bit of a Q & A afterwards as well. This was also the world premiere for it as well. The synopsis is a group of travelers are forced to seek shelter inside an abandoned jail where a notorious nun named Sister Monday (Felissa Rose) had once been assigned. She was also suspected of murdering prisoners.

We start this with a little girl in her room. She has a bunch of dolls and we see her walk across the room to the closet door. She opens it and it goes black. We then jump into the present, where the little girl is Ashley-Kae (Erika Edwards). She is taking pictures of a burned out church. With her is her sister, Gabby (Kristi Ray) and her boyfriend Anthony (Damina Maffei) as well as Ashley's friend from class Michael (Gunner Willis). Gabby and Anthony are annoyed because they want to go the sister's vacation house, but Gabby's parents made them stop along their route for Ashley to take pictures.

They go to the burned out church where we learn that Ashley's father used to tell her scary stories about a nun before bedtime, Sister Monday. This has influenced her to research more into it and even make her thesis around it. She tells the group the story and it spooks them, even more that this church is where she was living until it burned down. She was then transferred to a local prison after that. Ashley really wants to go, but no one else does.

A thunderstorm rolls in and that's when Anthony cannot find the car keys. They're forced to go to the prison. Taking advantage of this, Ashley decides to look around. She ends up with psychic visions of the past to see what Sister Monday was doing to the inmates. The scary thing is that, the group sees someone moving around the prison, dressed in a habit. Sister Monday disappeared and was never found. Is she still roaming the halls of this abandoned prison or is it something else?

This film is quite interesting as the writer/director, Tommy Faircloth, revealed that originally the killer was going to be the warden, but the location they ended up using had this great stain-glass window. It was then shifted to being a nun and Rose wanted to take on the role. After seeing the film, I think that is a much better decision. If you know anything about me, I'm a big fan of the corruption of religion so having a killer nun is a great idea.

I won't harp on this movie too much as it didn't have the biggest budget. We have a distinct group of characters and there' some actually good reveals throughout here. I'm not going to lie, I'm not the biggest fan of the flashbacks, as it just kind of seems a bit lazy. I'll also admit that the ending was something that I actually hate in movies. The only props I will give it is that it does change the course of events that happen in the film though.

I'll move next to the pacing, which I did have some slight issues with. I think that we have a good set up here. It doesn't take long to get to know the characters, set the stage to the great setting that we have and to get into what's going to happen. The problem is that I don't feel the characters are in peril until like the last 30 minutes. We do get some deaths that are shown through flashbacks, but I think it would have helped to drive tension if we spaced them out for me. After seeing the reveal of what's happening, it makes sense and I actually like that part of it. As I said, the ending didn't really work for me either.

To move into the acting, I thought it was pretty decent if I'm honest. Rose is great as the creepy nun here. I love that she's so invigorated to be back into acting so even films that are bit lower budget, she puts in a solid performance. Maffei is such a jerk and pretty hilarious if I'm honest. Willis is interesting as the complete opposite of him, but also bringing humor. I really liked Edwards as the lead here, she plays the role a bit subdued and it really works for me. Ray is such a bitch, but I think that's good for a film like this.

That takes me to the effects, which I was glad to see that since this is a type of slasher that they went practical. The blood that we get looks real and I love the weapon that Sister Monday uses. It is a wooden cross that has a knife hidden inside of it. I dug that and they really do hide some of it which also works unless you can make the effects look really good. There's a bit of CGI, especially the last image which was fine. I like the look of the contacts that Sister Monday uses as well. The film is shot fine in my opinion also.

Now with that said, this film I was actually pleasantly surprised with. It has an interesting idea that ticks some of my boxes, with just some slight flaws. I think that they could have paced out some of the deaths, but the idea of a nun killing people I can get down with. I didn't really care for the ending though if I'm going to be perfectly honest, as it felt like a cop out. The acting I will say was pretty solid for a movie like this and we have your normal troupe characters. The blood effects were solid and even the CGI I didn't necessarily mind as they didn't use a lot of it. The soundtrack didn't really stand out or hurt the film, it did fit for what was needed. Overall I'd say this is just above average for me, but I would say if you're a slasher fan to give this a viewing for sure.

My Rating: 6.5 out of 10

The premise is not original, but something that could be a good watch if done well.

This was not done well.

The pacing was totally off - nothing happens for a long time, and this setup does nothing to add to the suspense. When things start happening, it goes too quickly. The viewer doesn't have time to develop a sense of fear or suspense.

The acting is mediocre, with mostly cliched characters. The main female character (the bookish younger sister) shows very little emotion, even during a couple of the obvious "scary" scenes. I could tell where I was supposed to feel scared, but never actually anything near scared.

The creature makeup is a mess - looks decent in dark lighting, but when the creature is better lit, it looks very amateurish.

And, what I think were meant to be the movie's "plot twist/insightful lesson" near the end was just a muddled mush of confusing ideas. The writers were trying to make a profound point, and just ended up making a profound mess.

I stuck through the movie because I'm stubborn, but I actually couldn't wait for it to end. Don't feel obligated to watch this movie to the end - it does not get interesting, it does not get better, it does not redeem itself.

Having attended Catholic Schools as a child, I can attest to the notion that nuns can be scary. This sorry mess is a ripoff of The Nun from "The Conjuring" universe. Four annoying friends visiting a ruined church for photography opportunities. And end up seeking shelter at a nearby jail reputed to have been the scene of grisly murders committed by its resident nun named Sister Monday (lame, right?). Of course, this serves as the premise for what ultimately isn't really that scary and barely atmospheric. I'd advise a hard pass!

Was so looking forward to watch it, unfortunately the movie seemed to be more comedy like rather than horror due to the poor acting. Sorry but 1/10.