Bruno Mattei is one of my favorite directors not because he actually makes "good" films but because he just seems to throw a little of everything into in his movies. Of course most of the times it seems like his ideas are just borrowed from other movies but that's besides the point. This here nunsploitation movie takes Ken Russell's THE DEVILS, ROSEMARY'S BABY and whatever random ghost movie you want to pick and mixes them in a blender of gross-out horror. It all starts out with a dead nun having her vagina cut out before the credits even roll, then the mother-superior of the convent(Franca Stoppi, who looks way too young to be in this role) gets a little stabby with another nun and then things start to get weird. There's a gardener(Franko Garafalo, who's that guy who does that stupid dance in Mattei's NIGHT OF THE ZOMBIES) who keeps a bunch of dogs for some reason which leads into some "when animals attack" action, a mute nun who goes nutzo,there's stigmata, the Devil shows up looking like a prop from a Dio concert, lots of haunted house, or in this case haunted convent, shenanigans and it all ends with some revived corpses zombie action. There are a few lulls in between all this which throw the pace off at times but still a good time for horror whackos. The one thing Mattei oddly doesn't include in this is any sex or nudity which is normally the standard for these types of flicks. So shave off a few points if you're just looking for sleaze.
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