YouTube has just banned this trailer for 'The Nun' for being too scary. (Watch, if you dare!)

A new trailer for <em>The Nun</em> has a jump scare that’s not for the faint of heart. (Photo: New Line/Warner Bros.)
A new trailer for The Nun has a jump scare that’s not for the faint of heart. (Photo: New Line/Warner Bros.)

If you’ve been lurking on YouTube lately, you may have been the victim of a ghost-nun ambush. A six-second trailer for The Nun, the latest installment in the Conjuring horror franchise, has been pulled from the video platform after thousands of users retweeted a warning about its jump scare.

The video is indeed shocking, not to mention deceptive. It begins with a volume symbol that makes it look as if the sound on the video has been turned down. The user who then turns up the sound in response will get an earful of sudden noise, along with a terrifying close-up of the demonic title character. Watch the banned ad below — unless you’re too much of a wimp.

The trailer might have had a warmer reception if it had been targeted at or sought out specifically by horror fans. Instead, the video played as pre-roll before unrelated videos, scaring the rosary beads off unsuspecting viewers. The Twitter user who brought it to YouTube’s attention was watching a gaming video before getting caught off-guard by the ear-splitting noise:

After her warning received more than 100,000 retweets, the official Team YouTube Twitter account responded, announcing that the ad had been pulled.

YouTube doesn’t always have the best track record when it comes to enforcing its content policies, due in part to the high volume of videos uploaded to the site, according to Gizmodo. A similar issue has even happened before, with a pre-roll ad for the horror film Insidious: The Last Key playing before Lego tutorials and other content aimed at children. Then again, some Twitter commenters are hypothesizing that Warner Bros. distributed the ad with the intention of getting it pulled, in order to get The Nun some publicity in a saturated horror market.

Naturally, parody videos have already started popping up to mock the ad. Here’s one with a special guest appearance by John C. Reilly’s Adult Swim character Dr. Steve Brule.

And here’s what happens when the Conjuring nun makes her way into a Wreck-It Ralph 2 trailer.

The Nun opens in theaters on Sept. 7.

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