So this little flick here,I had never heard a damn thing about until a few weeks ago when I was on one of the several hundred thousand horror blogs that I look at when I'm bored as hell at work,and dont feel like fucking dealing with people.Anyways they had a little thing about Rec and Rec 2 (if you havent seen the original,go get it!! One of the best horror flicks in the last decade easily.) If your not familiar with" Rec" its a lil Spainish horror flick that is scary as fuck (imagine that a horror film thats actually scary) and it was remade in the US (big shock there) into "Quarantine" (they remade it,because us dumbass Americanos have fuckin ADD and cant fucking read subtitles).
Anyways "Rec" is a favorite of mine,and in this article they were discussing other films done by the creators of that and "Rec 2". One of them Jaume "Jaime Town" Balaruego also did Darkness which featured the gap tooth wonder that is Anna Paquin.That flick didnt really make a whole hell of a lot of sense,but visually it was creepy and it had some damn ass creepy moments.Check it out one night if you cant find anything worth a damn. So the film in between "Darkness" and "Rec" that Balaruego was involved with was this obscure lil flick called "The Nun".
"The Nun" is a spainish production but its similar to "Darkness" in that its in English....not bad dubbing mine you,but all the actors speak in English.It stars some lil chick that was in that stupid Brendan Fraser movie (arent all his movies stupid anyways?? You know with a bunch of crapass cgi...the only recent Fraser flick that didnt have crap ass cgi was that one with Harrison Ford about a month ago,and I was kind of surprised that some cgi snake didnt jump out of Fords ass at one point.Of course I didnt see it,so theres always that chance).Anyhow the chick was in that,cute girl,other than that dont know anyone else in it.
The story is a bit familiar these young girls at a catholic boarding school in the 80's have a dark secret involving the headmistress of the school that was a real bitch of a nun. So they swear to keep it a secret and quicker than you can say "I Know What You Did Last Summer" the ghost of the Nun is hunting them down like a mofo 18 years later.Its not the greatest flick in the world nor the most original....but that being said I enjoyed it.There are a few creepy parts in it,especially a cool death in an elevator that got me to yell "HOLY SHIT".It would have been better if they had kept the said nun in the dark,as the cgi nun is a lot creepier when you dont see her in the same shot with another person.But for a night when I'm doing jack shit and feeling blah....this is a serviceable flick.
Its got a combination feel of an American slasher,mixed with some J Horror,with that thing that you really only find currently in Spainish Horror that just general foreboding (BIG WORD OF THE DAY!!) creepiness that flicks like "The Orphanage" and "Darkness" and "Rec" seem to have.Of those films this is more along the lines of "Darkness" but not as good.And of course there are those out there that are probably thinking "But Darkness sucked ass!!"...FUCK YOU!! I liked it...anyways if you can find this obscure lil flick on either cable or if you still go to the video store and they have it and you arent feeling very discriminatory check it out.Its not great,kinda average to ok,but a decent time killer.
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