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The Nun T he Nun is the latest in the fantastically tiresome and unscary Conjuring franchise – a prequel to The Conjuring 2 , creating a backstory for the creepy sub-Marilyn Manson nun that we saw in that film. (Did Manson forget to trademark his image? Or is he getting royalties?) It also overlaps with the Annabelle movies – perhaps attempting to create something like the Marvel Cinematic Universe cash-cow. Anyway, The Nun brings back in brief cameo the characters Ed and Lorraine Warren, the real-life paranormal investigators associated with the Amityville case, played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga. It is set just after the second world war; the heroine is a trainee nun, played by Vera Farmiga’s younger sister Taissa. The resemblance is striking, and maybe we are supposed to believe that this is Lorraine’s younger self, before a name and career change. However egregiously silly it all gets, The Nun will insist on repeating the franchise...