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This was Valak's third appearance after [The Conjuring 2](/category/1300/the-conjuring-2) (2016) and Annabelle: Creation (2017). Although Valak did not appear in The Conjuring (2013), the scary premonition that Lorraine Warren had in that film was about Valak, as later revealed in Conjuring 2.
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At the end of The Nun, a scene from The Conjuring (2013) is shown where Ed & Lorraine are performing an exorcism on Maurice. This scene links the Maurice from that video as being the same Maurice from The Nun, but they edited the scene to fit into the narrative of The Nun: they edited in Jonas Bloquet into the exorcism scene, as he used to be played by a different actor (Christof Veillon); they added in dialogue of Ed saying "they called him Frenchie", so as to make a better connection.
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There are two Valek Easter eggs: in the school playground where sister Irene is teaching and the license plate on the Romanian truck.
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When Frenchie whistles at the truck to stop, you can see the license plate reads "6-VA-01-LAK". If you remove the numbers and dashes it simply spells "Valak", which is the name of the demon nun as she is referred to in The Conjuring 2 (2016) by Lorraine Warren.
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This is the shortest movie in The Conjuring Universe. It's 1h 33min long.
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Taissa Farmiga, who played Sister Irene in this film, is the younger sister of Vera Farmiga in real life, who played Lorraine Warren in The Conjuring (2013) and The Conjuring 2 (2016). The Demon Nun, played by Bonnie Aarons, also appeared in The Conjuring 2 and had a brief cameo in Annabelle: Creation (2017). Though the sisters' characters are not at all related to each other, they are both devout Catholics with clairvoyant abilities.
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Director Corin Hardy revealed that reshoots of the film were carried out by both him and James Wan. While Hardy reshot interiors, Wan was reshooting exteriors.
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Principal photography for the film began on May 3, 2017 at Castel Film Studios in Bucharest, Romania, with Maxime Alexandre serving as cinematographer. Scenes were filmed in the Palace of the Parliament building in June, for a fee of EUR5,000 per hour.
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Valak is mentioned by name only once, when Father Burke looks into the abbey's history. Everyone else refers to it as "the evil" or "the demon".
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Many of the nuns describe feeling the presence of spirits, the seeing of visions, and divination. This actually would never happen because according to traditional Roman Catholic religion, these things do not appear to prayerful individuals such as clergy. This is explained by the fact that the nuns were spirits themselves by then and hinted at such.
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The name Valak can be found in the upside pentagram all in uppercase.
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The film was shot entirely in Romania.
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In The Conjuring 2 (2016), it was already revealed that the "demon nun" is actually called Valak.
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The film was originally set to hIt cinemas in mid-July of 2018 but was pushed back closer to Halloween season on September 7, in hopes of doing as successful at the box office as It (2017) did last year, which smashed records and earned more than USD $700M.
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While The Conjuring (2013) and The Conjuring 2 (2016) are based on allegedly true events, this film's story is entirely made up by the film makers.
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The film takes place in 1952.
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The events take place before Annabelle: Creation (2017), making it the first movie (chronologically) in the film series. Although the opening scenes of Annabelle: Creation take place before The Nun, the rest occurs afterwards.
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The first movie in The Conjuring universe not to feature Joseph Bishara, either as an actor or composer.
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