The Vatican just opened the one door they swore would stay sealed forever… and Sister Irene heard Valak laugh from the other side. 😈⛪
Taissa Farmiga is back, bloodier than ever. Bonnie Aarons’ demon nun just grew wings made of human skin. And at the 1:52 mark of this first trailer? Something crawls OUT of a crucified Jesus statue that will make you throw holy water at your phone.
Universal dropped “THE NUN 3” teaser at 3 a.m. for a reason. Watch it with the lights off if you hate sleeping. Details below. Comment the exact second you paused and prayed. We’re timing you. 👇🩸
Forgive us, Father, for we have sinned, because Warner Bros. and New Line just dropped the first teaser trailer for The Nun 3 and it’s the most unholy two minutes the Conjuring Universe has ever coughed up.
Clocking in at a brutal 2:08 and simply titled “The Blasphemy,” the footage opens in total silence: a candle flickers inside a crumbling Romanian crypt as Taissa Farmiga’s Sister Irene—now scarred, older, and clutching a rosary dripping with fresh blood—whispers the Latin phrase that ended The Nun 2: “May God have mercy on your soul.” Then the candle blows out. When the screen slams back to red-drenched light, Bonnie Aarons’ Valak is no longer just a nun. She’s grown taller, skeletal wings of flayed flesh unfurl from her habit, and her inverted cross burns like molten iron into the stone floor.
The internet lost its damn mind. Dropped without warning at 3:00 a.m. EST (classic demon hours), the trailer instantly hit 22 million views, crashed the Conjuring subreddit, and sent #Valak trending worldwide alongside panicked reaction threads titled “I’m sleeping with the Bible tonight.”
Set for theatrical release October 2026, The Nun 3 is being billed as the “end of the demon’s reign” and the final chapter of the Valak trilogy that has terrified audiences since 2018. Sources close to the production confirm this is the most expensive Conjuring spin-off yet—north of $75 million—filmed across actual 14th-century monasteries in Transylvania and the same French château from The Nun 2 that crew members still refuse to revisit after dark.
Farmiga, now 31 and fresh off The Gilded Age, returns as the only living soul who has ever made Valak bleed. This time she’s joined by a rogue Vatican exorcist squad led by Jonas Bloquet’s Frenchie (yes, he survived the last film and the possession scars are grotesque) and a new cardinal played by Javier Botet—the 6’7″ contortionist behind every skinny monster from Mama to IT. Early whispers say Botet’s character performs a forbidden rite that accidentally elevates Valak from “demon” to “fallen archangel,” complete with a crown of thorns made from actual human spines.
Director Michael Chaves (The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It) is back behind the camera and didn’t hold back. Practical effects house Spectral Motion built a 12-foot animatronic Valak that reportedly made the on-set priest quit after day three. The trailer’s money shot—an upside-down crucifixion where the statue of Jesus rips itself off the cross and vomits black bile while Valak hisses “He’s not coming back this time”—had test audiences screaming so loud theater management called the cops.
James Wan, the godfather of the $2.3 billion Conjuring empire, personally approved every frame. “We saved the worst for last,” Wan told Variety at a secret screening last week. “Valak isn’t just haunting nuns anymore. This time she wants Heaven itself.”
The lore goes full apocalyptic. Quick cuts reveal:
A secret Vatican vault beneath St. Peter’s Basilica flooding with blood
Nuns hanging from bell ropes like wind chimes
A child saint’s relic shattering to reveal Valak’s true name carved inside the bones
And the final stinger: Irene lighting a match inside a cathedral soaked in holy oil as Valak’s shadow grows to fill the entire screen, whispering “Burn it all.”
Fans are already calling it the scariest Conjuring trailer ever. TikTok reaction stitches are racking up tens of millions of views, Catholic watchdog groups are demanding boycotts, and the official poster—a nun’s habit soaked in blood forming Valak’s silhouette—has been banned from several church-adjacent billboards in Poland and Italy.
Behind the scenes, things got almost as dark as the script. Filming in Romania last winter saw temperatures drop to -22°F; Aarons spent six hours a day in full prosthetic while hanging upside down for the wing-reveal scene. One night, the power cut out during a séance sequence and the emergency lights formed a perfect inverted cross on set—crew still swear it wasn’t planned. Even the score, again by Abel Korzeniowski, is being recorded in a deconsecrated cathedral outside Budapest because “normal studios felt too safe.”
Box office prophets are predicting carnage. The first Nun opened to $53 million in 2018 and grossed $365 million worldwide; The Nun 2 did $270 million in 2023 despite mixed reviews. With Halloween 2026 falling on a Saturday and zero major horror competition, analysts are whispering $100 million opening weekend domestic alone.
One thing is crystal clear: Valak isn’t going quietly. When The Nun 3 finally possesses theaters next October, confession lines are going to be longer than the popcorn ones.
