Killer Nun (1979)
Directed By: Giulio Berruti
Where to get it: Blue Underground
The Prologue
Killer Nun is a film I last watched sometime back for a podcast. It’s a movie that didn’t really blow me away, but the idea of a Nunsploitation on blu-ray is something I just couldn’t pass up. Also the fact this is a Blue Underground release helps with the decision to give it a watch. So if you are all in for some blasphemous nuns, running around doing some outrageous things in HD, then Killer Nun might be your cup of tea! However, I must admit that in my dealings with Nunsploitation, it does seem to be a bit of a required taste. But you do get Anita Ekberg, can’t go too wrong with that, can you?
The Movie
A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, whilst 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. And did you know that Nuns sleep naked?? I wasn’t aware of the fact before seeing this movie and now that I know it I do believe I am better for it. I think after seeing this thing that may be about the only really memorable thing I take from it. Well, besides the very awkwardness of the whole thing.
You might ask yourself “How I could NOT be blown away when it comes to a movie that does indeed pack some old style gore, horny/naked Nuns, and a weird sex scene that involves an old man in wheelchair”. But the sad fact to it all is, the movie just moves at too damn slow of a pace. I think there’s some OK shots, the acting is OK, and the women are hot. But there’s just nothing here to really hold everything together. I think some stuff has the focus on it for too long and by the time you move along it just has already lost your interest.
Now let’s take for example one of the later scenes in this film. A man who can’t walk without the aid of a crutch is left laying while our killer has set their sights on him. From the moment this starts until it ends it just seems to draaag on forever. I believe the pace is crawling about as fast as our gimpy man in questions is. You know that scene in The Holy Grail where they yell “GET ON WITH IT!”? That’s about what this scene and a few other scenes in this movie desperately needed. It needed someone there to yell, GET ON WITH IT!!
So after things have been gotten on with. Old people get laid and terrorized all the same, and we once again have to realize that hot Nuns sleep in the buff. The movie then ends with a bit of a twist that KINDA helps things a bit, but it’s just a shame that by now it’s much to late to really do much good to the overall product. But if you like that old school sleazy feel that you get from most Blue Underground films you might like it more than I. I however simply was a bit disappointed and a whole lot of bored. Should I now excuse myself and head on over to confession for watching this?..Oh wait, I’m not catholic! NEVER MIND!
The Conclusion
I still am not the world’s biggest fan of this movie in general, but the Blu-ray it’s self isn’t that bad. It has that same feel that most Blue Underground Italian Blu-rays have. Only this time around, I do think the blacks look more black and the overall picture did look a bit sharper. So it’s not a bad transfer, I just wish I liked the movie more.
The Rating (5/10)
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