Haunting THE NUN Featurette and More Promotional Videos Watch the new THE NUN featurette and more promotional videos! The film, directed by Corin Hardy (The Hallow), stars Taissa Farmiga, Charlotte Hope, and Demián Bichir. THE NUN will be released in theaters on Septermber 7. When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together they uncover the order’s unholy secret. Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of the same demonic nun that first terrorized audiences in ‘The Conjuring 2,’ as the abbey becomes a horrific battleground between the living and the damned.