It would be easy to dismiss last year’s largely forgettable The Nun as just another of the many rote spin-offs made to capitalize on The Conjuring series’ success. This would be a mistake. The movie, which features a demon nun named Valak who looks like a scrapped Marilyn Manson video concept, has had an impact far greater than its quality might suggest.
For proof of this, look no further than a 3 year-old kid named Lucia who’s getting a strong head start on the goth lifestyle through a Valak-themed birthday party.
The photos, each of them a masterpiece that shows the love of a child for a demonic perversion of Christ’s love, were posted by her cousin Andrea who, in an interview at Bored Panda, said she thought the party’s theme “was a joke at first” before learning that “Lucia had insisted on it being based [on] The Nun.” The piece adds that she “saw the movie at her grandmother’s house and insisted on watching all of it,” a choice that must represent one of the biggest landmarks in the annals of “grandparents letting their grandkids do whatever they want.”