‘The Nun II’: Director Chaves’ Breakdown

In The Nun II, there are some really scary scenes, and one of them was so difficult that it almost made the director, who has directed three movies in the Conjuring universe before, feel like he couldn’t handle it.

The Nun II is the ninth movie in The Conjuring Universe. As they make more of these movies, it becomes harder to come up with new and scary ideas that we haven’t seen before. But the director, Michael Chaves, is ready for the challenge.

Michael Chaves, in an interview with Collider, said: “Well, the whole movie, honestly I think the newsstand sequence was probably the biggest one. With the scares, you’re always trying to come up with something that’s unique and memorable, and it was one of the earliest ideas that I had as we first started developing the movie. And literally, it was the longest, hardest journey to get that thing pulled off. Basically, I was working on that until the end. It was like the first thing I was working on and the last thing I was working on. That was 100% a beast, and really it almost broke me. I didn’t know one scene could break someone, but it was a beast.”

Chaves added: “I think great scares are really patient. I think having the confidence. Also I think great horror movies, great movies have a great relationship with the audience, but especially a great horror movie, and giving them room to breathe. It’s almost like a stand-up comedian, like a really good comedian, someone who’s really good on stage interacts with the audience, and it’s hard to do that. It’s hard to do that when you’re making your first movie because you don’t know what the audience is thinking. You’re just there scrambling to make your day. You don’t know. You’ve got kids that you’re gonna lose in, like, a couple of minutes.”

He continued: I pitch a lot of crazy ideas. It was one of many ideas, so I don’t know how far it was. I think I probably killed it while I was still in the crib. But at the end of the movie, you want it to be a funhouse of scares, and you want Valak to be throwing everything it has at our characters, so that was in consideration. But I don’t know if we could have brought back Father Burke just to be a zombie.

There were so many great characters out of the first film. I think we really wanted to introduce Storm. I think that we wanted to introduce another nun, and so it became a balance of, “How big does this team get? How many storylines can we carry?” And, you know, Father Burke, unfortunately – well, you’ll see in the film.

The Nun II is scheduled to premiere in theaters on September 8th and fans will have the opportunity to embark on another terrifying journey with Valak and Sister Irene.

One aspect that has piqued the curiosity of fans of the first film is what kind of scares they can expect this time around. Given that we are now nine movies into The Conjuring universe, there is a desire for innovative ways to deliver suspense and frights.

Source: Collider