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I don't know why there are so many reviews blasting this film. As far as naked nun movies go. It's really one of the best I've seen, and I've seen allot personally. True it's more of a slur against the catholic church than a horror film, but it does have this romantic under story amidst all the lying,screwing and murder. It's basically a Romeo/Juliette take off. A rebellious young political dissident is in love with the daughter of a rival family's daughter. The father has the daughter sent to a convent. While in the convent, the bisexual freaky roommate is murdered and the daughter is blamed. A inquisition mad archbishop shows up and begins the torture, while the mother superior begins a cover-up. Meanwhile the young rebel, wounded by guards and hiding in the convent begins a frantic search for the truth. In the wake of the priests madness to find the dissenters, he walls up the cloister in a room in the convent and leaves the sinful nuns to starve. It's a race against time for the romeo to clear his lovers name, show the father-in-law that the church is the enemy, and free the nuns before they eat each other. Freaky and fun man! The ending is a happy one, and we all live ever after:). You can't go into these films expecting brilliance. But this film was a little more tastefully done so to speak. It still has some great moments non the less and a decent ending. I think this one should get a better buzz.

First of all, I am tired of people criticizing these Eurosleaze/horror films as if they were expecting some Spielberg epic. No one but NO ONE watches these for the "story", okay? Complaining about the lack of story singles you out as a doofus, because you are talking to the wrong crowd.
I preach to the converted, and as far as this film goes it has only a smattering of what we're looking for in this genre. The nudity is there...kind of. Not a lot of it, but enough to warrant some interest in the film throughout it's entire length. I was hoping this would be similar to "The Convent of Hell", an erotic graphic novel which tells the story of a group of nuns which mistakenly summons the devil, who then goes about raping them and turning them into nymphomaniacs. Not quite the plot here, as it happens.
A dash of very minor and brief lesbianism (one mild scene) is the best on offer here, and a "sex" scene between the abbess and the "hero" is completely forgettable. The end of the film, which is awash with topless nuns in some sort of weird, possessed freak out, is a decent climax. The main nun--a young girl falsely accused of murdering another nun (which is the basis of the story, if you care)--is the best looking, but unfortunately has almost the least on display. Of course, something which the director calls "violence" is present, but....whatever. Towards the end of the film a topless nun hanging is as extreme as it gets. However, there is a stirring moment when the nuns' true spiritual allegiance is revealed by a
creepy painting on the wall late in the movie.
The dvd notes claim it is all remastered, and maybe it is. And boy are they proud of how they transferred the audio to DAT and reprocessed it!
The trailer for the film is in Italian with no subtitles, and Redemption has added some sort of 5 minute prologue during which some goth girl introduces the film (see editorial review above).
Now, it's great that Redemption has taken such an active interest in their products, but several minutes of jabbering by some lady with white contacts trying to be scary is just stupid. Skip to Chapter 2 where the film starts.
In closing: it isn't Jean Rollin or "Bacchanales Sexuelles", but it's adequate.