The Killer Nun

1979 [ITALIAN]

Action / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 24% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 24% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.0/10 10 2441 2.4K

Plot summary

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.

Director

Top cast

Alida Valli as Mother Superior
Joe Dallesandro as Dr. Patrick Roland
Anita Ekberg as Sister Gertrude
Massimo Serato as Dr. Poirret
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720.25 MB
1348*720
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
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1.38 GB
1888*1008
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Infofreak

Killer movie!

I'm really surprised at the lack of comments for this classic piece of Nunsploitation! This movie is really, really odd! Anita Ekberg plays a cancer obsessed Nun who works as a nurse. Old people start getting killed, and she starts flipping out. She stomps on an old lady's false teeth, shoots up morphine, picks up a guy and screws him, and gets sexually involved with a fellow disturbed nun. Is she the killer? Does she even know herself? Watch 'Killer Nun' to find out.Warhol regular Joe Dallesandro appears as a doctor but isn't very memorable. Ekberg's lesbian lover is though! One of the hottest nuns you'll ever see!
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Reviewed by lastliberal 6 / 10

A mild disappointment

This is an interesting film about nuns and murder that was shocking in it's day, but suffers in three areas.

First, it stars Anita Ekberg in her most skintastic role. No, you don't get to see her 40-23-38 body, just a brief flash of bun as she manages to get a quickie in town while she is stocking up on her drugs. Yes, she is a junkie nun and she also has a mental illness or brain disease. You never know which as everyone denies there is anything wrong with her. However, she is prone to fits of rage. Is she capable of murder? The murders starts when she returns from town. They are not particularly gruesome, and those looking for giallo will be disappointed.

Finally, there is a hint of lesbianism, but those looking for full blown nunsploitation should look elsewhere. Her roommate is Italian Playboy Playmate Paola Morra, in her first film. Now, Paola does swing both ways and does give full frontal. She is definitely something to see as she is incredible beautiful, but there is no action between her and Ekberg - you just have to imagine it.

The film was well directed and well written. It was an interesting work, but I feel that it will disappoint more than it will entertain.

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