The ordeal of a pure young woman, as Rivette conceives it, has an eerie theatricality and mystery, as it dramatises the nature of freedom. It is part melodrama, part erotic memoir.

It may be a familiar old dark castle runaround, but Corin Hardy delivers eerie images and nerve-scraping sound effects. Lapsed Catholics, in particular, will have nun nightmares after this.

...a ferocious and lightly erotic takedown of organised religion.

...ganske enkelt en bundsolid horrorfilm, der netop giver lyst til at gemme sig under biografsædet.

...hvor de tidligere film i universet har været blodløse, lader 'The Nun' den røde, skvulpende væske flyde.