This might be the best-looking film I've seen so far by Spanish Eurosleaze director Jess Franco. It's also a pretty big downer of a film for the most part. The plot deals with a young gal(Susan Hemingway, who as far as I can tell was only 14 or 15 when this was filmed due to it actually being completed in '75 but not released until '77) who gets sent away to a convent only to find out is is in fact run by a group of Satanists. Herbert Fux shows up as a rapey Satan, William Berger is our pervy priest and you get a bunch of nuns who like to flash their boobs during rituals and practice lesbian antics. A great entry in the Franco oeuvre akin to something like THE DEVILS but on a smaller scale.
Lead actress Susan Hemingway also starred in Franco's later WOMEN IN CELL BLOCK 9, so I guess she specialized in being a young naked girl who only appeared in Uncle Jess' films and spurred on controversy due to her age.
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