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- Referencenod to comics or other movies
- Cameoa familiar face shows up
- Setupplanted now, pays off later
- Behind the scenesproduction trivia
- Behind the scenesA real castle in Romania
The Nun was shot in Romania, where the story is set. Part of it was filmed at Corvin Castle in Hunedoara.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesLorraine's little sister
Sister Irene is Taissa Farmiga, Vera Farmiga's younger sister. Vera plays Lorraine Warren in the main films, and the script never explains the resemblance.
source ↗ - SetupFrenchie's real name
The guide everyone calls Frenchie is named Maurice. At the end, footage from a Warren lecture shows what became of him 20 years later.
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- Behind the scenesThe Lights Out director
David F. Sandberg directed it right after Lights Out (2016), another James Wan production.
source ↗ - CameoThe nun in the photo
Sister Charlotte shows a photo of her old convent in Romania. In the background stands a dark-faced nun audiences already knew from The Conjuring 2.
source ↗ - SetupJanice gets a new name
At the end, the Higgins couple adopts Janice and she becomes Annabelle. It ties straight into the opening of the 2014 film.
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- Behind the scenesMichael Chaves again
Michael Chaves directed it, after The Curse of La Llorona and The Devil Made Me Do It.
source ↗ - CameoThe first film's duo returns
Taissa Farmiga returns as Irene and Jonas Bloquet as Maurice. It's set in France in 1956, four years after The Nun.
source ↗ - ReferenceSaint Lucy's eyes
The demon is after a relic tied to Saint Lucy, who by tradition lost her eyes and is the patron saint of people with eye trouble.
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- ReferenceMia and John, Rosemary's Baby style
The couple is named Mia and John, a nod to Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes, the leads of Rosemary's Baby (1968). Both films have an apartment, a pregnancy and a cult.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe star is named Annabelle too
Mia is played by Annabelle Wallis. John R. Leonetti, the cinematographer on The Conjuring, directed.
source ↗ - SetupThe doll changes hands
In the last scene, an antique shop sells the doll to a mother buying a gift for her daughter, Debbie. That links to the nurses at the start of The Conjuring.
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- CameoThe real Lorraine in the audience
Lorraine Warren herself has a cameo, sitting in the audience at one of the couple's college lectures.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesR-rated without gore
There's almost no gore or swearing. James Wan said the MPAA gave it an R just because it was too scary.
source ↗ - SetupThe artifact room
The Annabelle doll sits locked in a glass case in the Warrens' room of cursed objects. Both the doll and the room have a lot more to give.
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- Behind the scenesDauberman's directing debut
Gary Dauberman, who wrote all three Annabelle films and The Nun, makes his directing debut here.
source ↗ - CameoEd and Lorraine as bookends
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga show up at the start and the end. In between, the house belongs to their daughter Judy, played by McKenna Grace.
source ↗ - ReferenceMore of the collection
Annabelle wakes other spirits in the room, like the Ferryman, who takes coins from the eyes of the dead, and a bride possessed through a wedding dress.
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- CameoFather Perez returns
Tony Amendola reprises Father Perez from Annabelle (2014). He brings up the doll case, which is what ties the film to the universe.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesChaves' first feature
It was Michael Chaves' first feature. He went on to direct the third and fourth Conjuring films and The Nun II.
source ↗ - ReferenceA Latin American legend
La Llorona comes from Mexican folklore: the woman who drowned her children and wanders by the water, weeping, looking for other kids.
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- Behind the scenesThe nun came in reshoots
The demon nun wasn't in the original plan. James Wan swapped out the creature he'd shot and built the Nun during reshoots.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesPatrick Wilson sings Elvis
When Ed plays guitar for the Hodgsons, that's Patrick Wilson himself singing "Can't Help Falling in Love".
source ↗ - ReferenceFrom Amityville to Enfield
It opens with the Warrens at the Amityville house in 1976, then moves to the real Enfield poltergeist case in London in 1977.
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- ReferenceA first-of-its-kind trial
It's based on Arne Cheyenne Johnson's 1981 case, the first US murder trial where the defense claimed demonic possession.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe priest under the streetlight
In the opening, Father Gordon arriving at the house at night under a streetlight recreates the most famous image from The Exorcist (1973).
source ↗ - Behind the scenesNo James Wan in the chair
It's the first main-line film James Wan didn't direct; he stayed on as producer and story writer. In the US it hit theaters and HBO Max the same day.
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- Behind the scenesThe Warrens' farewell
The studio billed it as Ed and Lorraine's final case with Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, who have played them since 2013.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe Smurl family
The main case is the Smurls, a West Pittston, Pennsylvania, family who reported a haunting in the 1980s.
source ↗ - CameoGrown-up Judy and Tony
Mia Tomlinson plays adult Judy and Ben Hardy plays her boyfriend, Tony Spera. The real Tony Spera married Judy and still looks after the Warren collection.
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