A Nun's Curse (2020) poster
2020 · horror · music

A Nun's Curse

Directed by Tommy Faircloth1h 13m2020
ElsewhereIMDb2.6497
  • sombre
  • intense
  • bleak
  • cold
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Sombre, steady, measured horror / music, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A group of travelers are forced to seek shelter inside an abandoned jail where a notorious nun named Sister Monday had once been assigned and was suspected of murdering prisoners.

Our read · A Nun's Curse (2020) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded horror · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a short low-budget horror about a cursed nun haunting an abandoned jail.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakena rollercoastergrips by minute 8attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upjump scaresgraphic violencenudity

Skip it tonightYou avoid jump scares, religious horror or low budget indie scares.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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