1979 · nunsploitation · giallo · convent
The Killer Nun
Directed by Giulio Berruti1h 29m1979
A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, while presiding over a regime of lesbianism, torture and death. Sister Gertrude is the head nurse/nun in a general hospital, whose increasingly psychotic behavior endangers the staff and patients around her.
Our read: The Killer Nun (1979) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive nunsploitation · giallo · convent entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme nunsploitation / giallo, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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