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Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Suor Omicidi (aka Killer Nun) (1979)

In a Catholic hospital, a freaked out morphine addicted nymphomaniac nun (Anita Ekberg) becomes the chief suspect when a series of brutal murders occur. Trash heaven! Sexy lesbian nuns sleep in the nude, a nun reads graphic stories about missionary nuns being tortured to the patients during mealtime before grabbing an old woman's dentures and stomping on them, a patient tells a nun "I'll bet you'd look hot in a bikini", a nun calls the Mother Superior a bitch and this all in the first 15 minutes before the killings start! How does one critique a crazy movie like this? Part giallo, part exploitation flick, I watched the whole thing with a grin on my face. Well except for two scenes (a woman getting her face cut up, an arm covered in needle tracks getting shot up) which were too gruesome. The film begins by telling us this was based on an actual incident but in reality, an incident of a Belgian nun who might have killed patients to rob them of their jewelry is far from the factual account that this whacked out hysterical exercise in nunsploitation would have you believe. Directed by Giulio Berruti. With Alida Valli, Joe Dallesandro, Lou Castel, Massimo Serato and Paola Morra.

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