Taissa Farmiga is no fan of horror. Too bad the genre adores her.
The 24-year-old actress has appeared in five seasons of FX’s “American Horror Story,” the scary movie “The Final Girls” and now “The Nun” — the latest entry in the “Conjuring” series, out Friday.
“It might be a case of opposites attract,” Farmiga tells The Post. “Because I do not love watching horror films at all.”
Even seeing her own movie “The Nun,” in which she plays a demon-hunting novice named Sister Irene, was a terrifying experience.
“The beginning of the movie is kind of dark because it’s at night and it’s indoors. And the theater was pitch black,” says Farmiga, who was seated in a private room with her boyfriend. “The people who were screening it for us, they left and walked out the doors. And all of a sudden, I panic.”

Filming a frightening flick, it turns out, is a lot more fun than watching one.
On set, “the material is so dark and heavy [that] the atmosphere as soon as they call ‘cut!’ is so much lighter,” she says.
“Everyone is more relaxed and making jokes.”
Her sister act in “The Nun” is also another kind of sister act. Taissa is the younger sibling of actress Vera Farmiga, who played paranormal investigator Lorraine Warren in the first two “Conjuring” films. Vera doesn’t appear in “The Nun,” and Taissa was nervous about headlining her own flick. Yet once she arrived at the set in Romania, the New Jersey native says, it almost felt like her living room.
“It was kind of like walking into a family setting,” she says. “Vera’s so close with [writer/producer] James Wan and the producer Peter [Safran]. It just felt very comfortable.”
Though “The Nun” exists in the same universe as the “Conjuring” films, it’s not a direct sequel. Since Vera’s character is nowhere in sight, Taissa was free to make the movie her own. That involved learning the tiniest habits of nuns.
“It’s not only about doing your daily prayers and such,” she says, “but it’s a minute-by-minute struggle for self-perfection.”
Items on her religious-character checklist included avoiding eye contact, walking close to a wall and refraining from trivial conversation.
Once filming stopped, and she was able to “relax into my terrible millennial posture,” Farmiga would walk around in awe of Corvin Castle in Romania where she spent two months. While working in the gothic abode, the actress didn’t encounter a single ghost. She refused to.
“I actively chose to shut myself off from the possibility of that,” she says. “Because I don’t know what I believe. I don’t know what’s out there. I feel like there could be things. But if I don’t open the door and let them in, they won’t bother me.”