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The Other Hell (1981). The horror genre encompasses a wide array of categories, and few are as proudly perverse as the one called nunsploitation. Blending Christian iconography with fetishized ...
[60] In 2018, Esquire ranked it the fifth-scariest haunted house film ever made, [66] and in a 2021 public survey undertaken by SWNS Media Group, it was ranked as the seventh-greatest horror film of all time. [67] In an interview from 2009, Margot Kidder reflected negatively upon the film, calling it "a piece of shit.
The film made an ungodly sum as the sixth highest grossing movie of the year and spawned a sequel. ... “The Nun,” a prequel to “The Conjuring” series of horror films, finds a young nun ...
Behind the walls of a secluded convent, the nuns commit sexual acts at night with each other, while living in fear that their Mother Superior may learn of their transgressions. One day, an injured man appears at the convent and the sisters take him in. One by one, the nuns become attracted to the man and take turns visiting his room at night.
Films about nuns, members of a religious community of women, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery. [ 1 ] . ^ The Oxford English Dictionary, vol X, page 599.
From creepy nuns to crosses being used in anything but a holy way, the movie delivers what horror fans would expect from a religious horror, following forebears like The Devils and Killer Nun.
A young woman Maya (Yumi Takigawa) becomes a nun at the Sacred Heart Convent to find out what happened to her mother Michiko years earlier. She encounters a lesbian mother superior, lecherous archbishops, and uncovers many dark secrets. The convent also practices brutal discipline and encourages masochistic rituals such as self-flagellation.
Demonia was described by Troy Howarth, author Splintered Visions: Lucio Fulci and His Films, as Fulci's "would be" return to theatrical films. [1] The film failed to receive any theatrical distribution anywhere. [1] The film was released directly to video in Italy and it would not receive an official release in the United States until 2001. [1]