“The Nun” movies are part of the so-called Conjuring universe, which now has nine films, and $2.1 billion in box office, to its name.
Like many horrors before it, bad reviews didn’t scare off moviegoers from buying tickets for “The Nun II.”
But it hardly matters: Horror is perhaps the most reliably critic-proof genre, at least when it comes to opening weekend. “To have a horror universe is really powerful in terms of the revenue generating potential,” said Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for Comscore. “It’s a great bet that Warners made on the horror moviegoing experience never waning.”
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