But this is purely a theory based on a peripheral storyline in the film. They cannot live by principles. In addition to breaking her vow of chastity, Benedetta commits heresy and manipulates her church into believing that she was possessed by Jesus, a fraud that elevates her ranking to abbess until she is found out and severely punished.
Or maybe the fact that Benedetta claimed that she was possessed by a male angel made her superiors look beyond it? Can they bring up uncomfortable truths? Main Menu U. News U. No man or Abrahamic religion is free from its spite. I have loved women. I have enjoyed power. Ekberg plays Sister Gertrude, a statuesque care-home ward losing her grip on reality thanks to a morphine addiction.
Correlation does not equal causation, of course, but the connection between her rate of morphine blackouts and the rate at which her patients are getting murdered might be something worth looking into. Berruti loves intense close-ups and Ekberg is happy to oblige, laying it on thick with every variation of fury and anguish.
Killer Nun is overwrought and outrageous, but it has real style too. Warhol superstar Joe Dallesandro plays the hot doctor, for crying out loud. The sex is loud, the thrills are cheap, and Killer Nun is a fleshy, meaty, salacious melodrama befitting its star. Where lesser rape-revenge filmmakers would have hurried Thana along into instant man-killer girlboss, director Abel Ferrara Bad Lieutenant , King of New York spends a surprising amount of time exploring her debilitating trauma with anxiety-inducing jump cuts and a relentless sound design that amplifies every thwack, thud, and gun shot.
Pure exploitation poetry. The men of Ms. Joker is the male Ms. Securing a hefty budget freed up by the unconditional surrender of the Nazis, British postwar filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger spared no expense on Black Narcissus , the exquisite missionary horror-drama-epic loaded with all-consuming grandeur and a disorienting, gestural eroticism.
Your favorite failed priest made a movie about exactly this a few years ago. Mixing gallons of bodily fluids, graphic sexual violence, and a Black Narcissus— ian cliff face, School of the Holy Beast is outrageously grotesque and shockingly beautiful.
His blackened execution pyre stands in a barren field, a leitmotif driven like a stake through the heart of the film. In addition to quite possibly pioneering the possessed backbend during a transfixing group exorcism, Lucyna Winnicka is astounding as Mother Joan, her already dramatic features gone frighteningly elastic.
Kawalerowicz lets the camera hover at eye level, pulling the audience into conspiratorial conversations and staring down at a prostrated Suryn framed so as to resemble an inverted cross.
Mother Joan does not fixate on far-reaching social commentary or political concerns. The Vatican and the state are notably absent. It is born only of the human heart. The Devils is a tortured masterpiece.
It is virtually unseen in its intended form, and forever tied to its losing battle with censors inside Warner Brothers and everywhere else. The film was originally banned in Britain in , but was subsequently re-released in DVD format there in , after changes in British censorship policy. Director: Bobby A. Suarez Stars: George Estregan Jr. They Call Her The film, riding on the success of Hong Kong martial arts films of the era as well as the James Bond and superspy craze, details the adventures of a female Interpol agent.
The movie is directed by Bobby A. Suarez and is written by Romeo N. Galang as well as himself. The film is reportedly listed by cult director Quentin Tarantino as among those that inspired him. Tagline: She purrs like a kitten and makes love like a siren. This side of the pacific, she is the meanest, deadliest and sexiest secret agent. A priest is sent to a small parish in the Polish countryside which is believed to be under demonic possession and there he finds his own temptations awaiting.
Convent of Sinners is the story of Susanna, a young girl who is raped by her own father and sent to a convent for her sins, where she falls in love with a priest. The other nuns, however, Not Rated 75 min Horror. Taunted by visions of Mary Magdalene, who reveals the confessions of the younger nuns at the convent, the Mother Superior's mind is filled with the violent, sexual acts of her fellow sisters.
Sacred Flesh is a nunsploitation film. It is set in an indeterminate past, and consists of a series of loosely connected vignettes that depict pseudo-lesbian sexuality and some sado-masochistic activity. Not Rated 91 min Action, Comedy. Nun of That is an action-comedy that follows Sister Kelly Wrath as she transforms from a nun with a simple temper problem to a vengeful killer.
After being gunned down in an alley, she Said convent turns out to be a veritable hotbed of sinful carnality and depravity. Debauched priest Don R 88 min Horror, Thriller. A young woman is forced into a convent. However, due to her nobility she rises to be an abbess. She has to deal with corruption in the church.
R min Action, Crime, Thriller. After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss. Not Rated 91 min Action, Comedy, Thriller. Mentally abused, enslaved and coerced into prostitution, a left-for-dead merciless Sister will take on a mission straight from God, whacking sinners in a strictly personal, no-prisoners vigilante Holy War.
Votes: 5, Ambrosio is a monk who is sexually tempted by an emissary of the Devil, a young girl in monk's robes. PG min Comedy, Family. Two high-spirited young students at St. Francis Academy keep things hopping for the challenged Mother Superior and her staff of bewildered Sisters. Votes: 4, The Trouble with Angels is a comedy film about the adventures of two girls in an all girls school run by nuns. See full summary ». Votes: 1, Votes: During a plane trip from Athens to Rome, the young Cristiana, daughter of a prostitute, and her friend Luca, join in for wagering in the eyes of other passengers.
Continuing their flight, R 96 min Drama, Horror. During the late Middle Ages, a young woman who's been forced to become a nun by her corrupt father teams up with an army of Muslims who are invading the area, to destroy the convent and kill everyone who wronged her. Agnes, of the wealthy family of Villalonga, enter as a novice in a cloistered convent. He soon falls in love with James, a soldier brother of another inmate, Sister Jacinta, and is On the surface the women at the convent are your average nuns.
However, what they get up to in their spare time is far from what you'd expect from nuns. A young woman is forced into a convent. However, due to her nobility she rises to be an abbess.
She has to deal with corruption in the church. Convent of Sinners is the story of Susanna, a young girl who is raped by her own father and sent to a convent for her sins, where she falls in love with a priest.
The other nuns, however,
0コメント