With his latest, Apostle, Evans keeps the practical effects and buries them in a sadistic occult update of the type if film that flourished in the 1970s.
Shane Black is going back home to revive the dormant franchise with The Predator, a big-budget sequel/reboot that aims for the stars and falls far, far too short.
The Nun is the fifth film in the series, the second spin-off film, and probably the movie with the least amount of narrative substance given its starting material.