

This is the room of the Mullins’ daughter.

Janice disobeys her mother’s instructions to keep away from one closed bedroom, but something compels her to enter and look around. Mullins has been bedridden due to a “condition” at this point, and Mr. Several years later, the Mullins offer their former house to Sister Charlotte (Stephanie Sigman) and a small group of young girls from an orphanage, most notably a wheelchair/crutch-bound girl called Janice (Talitha Bateman). That is until Bee is abruptly snatched away from them in a traffic accident. He seems to be very content with his wife Esther (Miranda Otto) and daughter, Bee (Samara Lee). Samuel Mullins’ (Anthony LaPaglia) wooden toys and dolls are handmade. The demon’s objective is to open the gateway and inflict pain on those who try to close it, while also guaranteeing that evil may continue to torture more souls and innocents. The devil will stop at nothing to possess and abuse the young, innocent, and pure nun. The two most powerful individuals must go inside and harness their light to overcome the approaching darkness as evil becomes more entrenched and strong.Īs they try to close the gateway and rescue the community, the demon manipulates and terrorizes the two. The nun and priest couple now enter, unaware of the growing horror erupting from the monastery. This devastation has unintentionally resulted in the splintering and reopening of this previously shut medieval gateway. When the Catholic knights killed the duke, they sealed this gateway with the blood of Christ.įast forward to the film’s chronology, and the abbey has been devastated by World War II bombs. The former owner of the abbey, a medieval lord, performed a ceremony that activated a gateway to hell. The pair’s research continues to elucidate the abbey’s dark origins.

They find that all of the nuns have died (murdered by the raging demon), with the last nun committing suicide to save her soul from being possessed. This demon assumes the identity of one of the abbey’s nuns. Sister Irene (the nun in her postulancy) and Father Burke (the Catholic priest) learn that an old demon is responsible for the abbey’s terrible powers and nature. The abbey has a shadowy and enigmatic past. They have been called by the Catholic church to examine a nun’s suspected suicide.Īccording to their research, a dark and nefarious power seems to be fuelling the abbey’s wicked underbelly. She is called by a Catholic priest who is skilled in demonic procession and dealing with severe unholy situations. The Catholic Church summons a nun who is finishing her vowels (her postulancy) to an abbey in Romania.
