Summer is winding down. For horror fans, that means one thing: spooky season approaches! As cooler weather arrives, The Nun II will bring an extra chill to your bones with its theatrical debut on September 8.
It's a sequel to 2018's eerie The Nun — a horror movie so scary that its advertisement was banned from YouTube for being too shocking. Itself a spinoff of The Conjuring franchise, The Nun follows a nun and a Roman Catholic in 1950s Romania as they face off against a malevolent evil force — a possession that leads to the events of the first Conjuring movie.
Anyone who saw that film knows that the story of the haunting is far from over, and The Nun II further fleshes out the film's uncanny universe, picking up four years after the prior instalment. Sister Irene (Taissa Farmiga), Frenchie (Jonas Bloquet) and Valek the Demon Nun (Bonnie Aarons) are all back for this creepy new chapter, with director Michael Chaves returning for his third movie in The Conjuring series after helming 2019's The Curse of La Llorona and 2021's The Devil Made Me Do It.
To get in the spine-tingling mood for The Nun II, Exclaim! has assembled a playlist of spooky songs. Taken together, what really stands out is how many different ways there are to make scary sounds. The playlist opens with a string of instrumental pieces from Canadian artists, including Dirty Beaches, Prince Josh, Mother Mother, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Chad VanGaalen's Black Mold project.
From there, Halloween-appropriate tunes come from Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Misfits, Be Your Own Pet and AFI. There's ghostly indie rock from the Unicorns and Tegan and Sara, head-rolling synthpop via Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the Knife, and heavier hauntings from Rob Zombie and Backxwash. Hell, there's even some ska from the Specials and tropical marimbas via the White Stripes — as well as a track from Abel Korzeniowski's score for The Nun.
There's clearly no wrong way to be frightening — but there are lots of right ways. Once you've checked out the playlist below, raise your goosebumps even higher by seeing The Nun II in theatres. You can also win a pair of tickets here.
It's a sequel to 2018's eerie The Nun — a horror movie so scary that its advertisement was banned from YouTube for being too shocking. Itself a spinoff of The Conjuring franchise, The Nun follows a nun and a Roman Catholic in 1950s Romania as they face off against a malevolent evil force — a possession that leads to the events of the first Conjuring movie.
Anyone who saw that film knows that the story of the haunting is far from over, and The Nun II further fleshes out the film's uncanny universe, picking up four years after the prior instalment. Sister Irene (Taissa Farmiga), Frenchie (Jonas Bloquet) and Valek the Demon Nun (Bonnie Aarons) are all back for this creepy new chapter, with director Michael Chaves returning for his third movie in The Conjuring series after helming 2019's The Curse of La Llorona and 2021's The Devil Made Me Do It.
To get in the spine-tingling mood for The Nun II, Exclaim! has assembled a playlist of spooky songs. Taken together, what really stands out is how many different ways there are to make scary sounds. The playlist opens with a string of instrumental pieces from Canadian artists, including Dirty Beaches, Prince Josh, Mother Mother, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Chad VanGaalen's Black Mold project.
From there, Halloween-appropriate tunes come from Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Misfits, Be Your Own Pet and AFI. There's ghostly indie rock from the Unicorns and Tegan and Sara, head-rolling synthpop via Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the Knife, and heavier hauntings from Rob Zombie and Backxwash. Hell, there's even some ska from the Specials and tropical marimbas via the White Stripes — as well as a track from Abel Korzeniowski's score for The Nun.
There's clearly no wrong way to be frightening — but there are lots of right ways. Once you've checked out the playlist below, raise your goosebumps even higher by seeing The Nun II in theatres. You can also win a pair of tickets here.
