The Nun II | 2023 | R | – 1.6.1

Why is “The Nun II” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “violent content and some terror.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes and dancing sequence and a hug, several deaths including one person in flames as well as one person being beaten, descriptions of deaths, imagined scenes of violence with a person being stabbed in the eyes, many scenes of images moving in heavy shadows and threatening people, a few scenes of a demonic creature with horns threatening people, discussions of murder and death, discussions of evil and lost faith, some arguments, and mild language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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This sequel is set in 1956 France, where several recent deaths have led to the belief that an evil presence has returned and a young nun (Taissa Farmiga) is called upon again to dispatch it before it is too late. Also with Jonas Bloquet, Storm Reid, Anna Popplewell, Bonnie Aarons, Katelyn Rose Downey, Suzanne Bertish, Léontine d’Oncieu, Anouk Darwin Homewood, Peter Hudson and Tamar Baruch. Directed by Michael Chaves. [Running Time: 1:50]

The Nun II SEX/NUDITY 1

 – A man and a woman dance together and embrace. A man and a woman seem to have romantic feelings for each other.

The Nun II VIOLENCE/GORE 6

 – A man and a young boy walk through a church and we hear low rumbling noises; a basin with holy water in it boils and the water evaporates, a shadowy figure is seen in the dark and glowing yellow eyes appear, the man is pulled into the air and bursts into flames, and he thrashes and yells on fire as the young boy watches and screams.
► A woman hears noises behind a locked door and goes inside, she hears children’s voices and sees a young boy, whom she follows, he strikes her repeatedly until she runs away, and a heavy hook falls from the ceiling hitting her in the head and killing her (we see her later with blood on her face and lying in a pool of blood). A young woman makes a delivery to a house and the door opens slowly by itself, she is startled when girls outside knock on the window and when she hears noises in the hallway, she finds a man gagging and gasping; he turns to show his face with discolored flesh and she runs away screaming, she is lifted off the floor and we hear a snap as blood drips on her shoes (she is presumably killed).
► A man holds a knife and threatens a young girl as barrels of wine explode and spray liquid on him and a demon that bursts into flames and dissolves to a pile of ash on the ground as the man yells and thrashes (we see blood in his mouth). Something grabs a man by the throat and he gags and gasps, we see a heavily shadowed figure open its mouth and a snake crawls out of its mouth and toward the man. A young woman is pulled into the air and flames burn starting at her feet and moving upward as she screams until the flames are doused. A woman follows a young boy as he kicks a ball through narrow streets, she comes upon a newsstand where magazines flutter in the wind to reveal dark images and eventually a mountain peak with a face on it and the woman is grabbed by something; she sees a man stabbing someone in the eyes with a sharp object (we hear a crunch and see blood pouring) and the woman falls unconscious.
► A man’s limbs crack loudly and he moves unnaturally, he glares at a young woman and speaks in a deep voice, he throws the woman against a window that shatters and throws another young woman on the floor and she returns and hits him in the back of the head knocking him to the floor; we then see the man bound and unconscious. A teen girl wakes up to the sound of footsteps from a room above her; she sends another teen to find out what the sounds are and she sees a creature with horns and covered with fur as it charges toward her and she and other teens are thrown into the ceiling and dragged around a room like rag dolls. A teen girl opens a vent grate in a wall and peeks through it, she returns to tell others that there is something on the other side and a woman (that we know to be dead) reaches through the vent and grabs the teen girl by the head, she screams and when the woman opens her mouth, many skittering bugs pour out. A young girl hides in a tower and a man comes to find her, she runs away from him and a large bell falls splintering the platform the girl is hiding on, the man grabs the girl’s foot, she kicks him, and he falls to the ground below along with dust and rubble. A chain is wrapped around a young woman’s throat and she is held off the floor as she gasps. Several teens hold a door closed keeping a demon creature outside and one is stabbed through the shoulder by something pushed through the door (we see blood).
► A young woman holds a case that is said to contain a woman’s eyes and the case glows causing a man to thrash and yell; we see his eyes oozing a dark liquid and he falls to the floor pleading with her to stop. A young boy carries a bottle of wine to a basement and places it on a shelf, he turns around to see a ball that he had kicked away earlier has rolled back to him, he kicks it into a shadowy corner as he hears a noise, the bottle of wine shatters and spills the wine and the boy runs to tell a man that something is wrong. A young girl is told to follow three other girls into a chapel that has been locked; the three girls tell the younger girl to stare at the image of a goat in a stained glass window until its eye no longer glows red or she will be haunted by a demon and the three girls leave the younger girl alone, they hold the door closed as she pounds on it and screams to be let out, something draped with a tarp moves toward the girl, she sees a monstrous face with many sharp teeth and it falls over to reveal a statue as a man opens the door to let her out of the room. A young girl opens a door in a dark hallway and sees a ghostly-looking nun with an ashen face that transforms to crows and they fly toward the child as she runs through the hallway and sees a ghostly image on a wall that seems to be moving toward her.
► A demonic form pushes through a painting and we see a mouthful of sharp teeth as it roars. A young woman has a nightmare that she finds a man who has discolored flesh and many sharp teeth when he turns to look at her and she wakes up with a start. A young woman imagines seeing a dead and charred man standing in front of her. A man stands in a courtyard motionless and looking up as if in a trance. A young girl says that there is something wrong with the school and that there is something there that is not meant to be there. A young woman imagines a figure standing in front of a giant fire. A young woman remembers her mother being taken away by two men (presumably to an asylum).
► A car is driven fast and swerves on a road. A man stumbles and falls to the floor against a table; a woman sees a scar on the back of his neck and the flesh around it appears discolored. Three young girls tease a younger girl and bully her in several scenes; a man intervenes a few times and they mock him as well. Several young girls release cockroaches through a grate into a woman’s room and we hear her yelling and cursing. A man yells at three girls after they have been bullying a younger girl and they run away.
► A woman describes a woman having been murdered by pagans and that they gouged out her eyes. We hear reports of a nun having shot herself, a priest being engulfed in flames, a woman reportedly hanging herself, and a priest slashing his own throat (we see photos of the bodies including the burned man’s charred remains). We hear that a woman’s son was killed in a chapel when it collapsed. A young woman says that when she was young, people came and burned her house down (we later hear that her mother died in the fire). A young woman talks about her father sending her away after her mother was taken to a hospital and that it was easier than trying to understand her. A young woman says that after her mother died, her brothers joined the army and she was sent to serve God. A young woman says, “I was lucky to make it out alive.” A man talks about a demon preying on fears.
► A young boy kicks a ball and runs through a dark street at night. A truck is stuck in mud and several women are sprayed with mud as the tires spin. A man tells a young girl that a stew that he is making has slugs and snails in it (he’s kidding). A woman unearths an engraved case that is said to hold the eyes of a woman that had been murdered and the killers gouged out her eyes.

The Nun II LANGUAGE 1

 – 4 mild obscenities, name-calling (drunks, demon, servant, foolish, vixen, creepy, insane, heretical), exclamations (bloody, et voila, none of your business), 6 religious exclamations (e.g. Jesus Christ, ungodly, blood of Jesus Christ, God has abandoned us). | profanity glossary |

The Nun II SUBSTANCE USE

 – People drink wine in a religious service. A young woman smokes a cigarette.

The Nun II DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Demons, evil entities, cholera, miracles, faith.

The Nun II MESSAGE

 – Evil is hard to get rid of.