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    Why Evil Nuns Have Tormented Audiences For 800 Years

    by Kimberly Winston Sep 07, 2018 4 minutes
    Taissa Farmiga (center) as Sister Irene in horror film, <em>The Nun.</em>

    The coming crop of Halloween horror films star a lot of the usual scary suspects — the alien with a taste for humans ("The Predator"), the haunted house ("The Toybox") and even that old bogeyman, Michael Myers, whose white hockey mask has been slashing his way through 11 installments of the "Halloween" franchise for 40 years.

    But none of those standbys has anything on a new film featuring one of the scariest and blood-chilling of horror tropes that has tormented moviegoers, television viewers and even readers of literary fiction for 800 years.

    Bless us, sister, for audiences will have" opens in cinemas nationwide on Friday. It revolves around a demonic nun named Valak who stalks the halls of a Romanian nunnery in search of tender young novices to drag down to hell.

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