As Shakespeare once said: "Full of sound and fury/Signifying nothing." Round Two of Sister Irene versus Valak The Demon Nun starts off with a suitably atmospheric French-set 1956 prologue and the death of a priest in a city church, leading to Sister Irene being asked by The Church to investigate a familiar series of murders/suicides. The set-ups for the supposed scare scenes are somewhat repetitive, apart from one nicely-staged sequence involving a magazine stand, and the film's rather flat feel makes this sequel a rather uninteresting grind through the genre motions that runs out of steam before the half-way mark, all leading to a rather tiresome runaround-in-the-dark screamfest for the finale. The story's link to the first film works well, but with an uninteresting protagonist and only brief appearances by the titular antagonist, this sequel has little to offer.
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