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Sarah (Tiffany Shepis!) has come from New York City to Italy on a spiritual quest to become part of the New Order convent where she plans to live out her life as a cloistered nun.
As Bunyan wrote in Pilgrim's Progress, "Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gate of heaven."
Sarah begins having visions of a young nun who was on the same journey that she was on and how her life became anything but a serene journey to discover God's grace. And that means to find the divine, you need to have your ear drums pierced, your eyes filled with acid, your hands burned and your tongue removed. Then she magically heals but not before flashbacks filled with monstrous infants.
For as over the top arty and — at times — silly as this gets, you have to give it to Shepis for being committed. She's actually a pretty good actress, but most people will only be watching this for the nudity and sapphic scenes that nun movies promise. Well, you'll get it, but you have to wander the desert like some kind of prophet before you get that revelation. Hope you enjoy eating all those locusts and wild honey.
Directed and written by Ivan Zuccon (The Darkness Beyond), this is another attempt at me trying to find my way into the horrors of Italian film post late 80s. Sometimes, the results are successful. This is around halfway one of those times.
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
02/06/23
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I'm pretty sure the highlight of this movie is Tiffany Shepis naked. That being said..it's a long and overdrawn romp that runs for far too long and the plot gets more and more contrived to the point you really stop caring about the movie and keep glancing at your watch. Find something better to watch, because good grief, this one is hard to watch
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02/12/23
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It is very cold and empty, ultimately becoming very draining as it is more difficult to watch as it goes along.
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01/16/23
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It is very cold and empty, ultimately becoming very draining as it is more difficult to watch as it goes along.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/22/23
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A total mess, a sort of mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in crap and deep-fried in pointlessness. The story seems to have been made up as they went along. Why would a group of nuns start a religion -- sanctioned by Catholic clergy, no less -- based on a self-mutilating child of incest who went on to marry her brother? THAT'S the basis for a new religion? Seriously? Even the title of the movie is meaningless; the self-mutilating incestoid is named Ninfa by her father/grandfather. I guess "Nympha" makes the movie sound like it might be interesting.
It isn't.
Tiffany Shepis, for some reason, travels to a convent in Italy at the behest of an American bishop. She wants to lead a religious life of silent contemplation. Instead, nuns dressed in red and their drunken doctor/slave make her deaf, blind, mute and boil her hands while they're at it. But she's, for some reason never explained even a little, in some sort of psychic contact with the aforementioned Ninfa and her crazy father/grandfather who, just because he's really crazy, does things like cut off his own leg and keep piles of dead animals in his attic. Ninfa and Tiffany are super, super scared of that. And thereby hangs a... tale?
No, a mess. Nothing here makes sense and the ending is a HUGE let-down after all the build-up. Other people's repressed memories just aren't that scary when you've been led to expect something supernaturally horrible by every clue in a film. It plays like director Ivan Zuccon simply didn't know where he was going at any point in this awful mess, so he just decided to run the whole thing into a wall in the end.
This could have been a perfectly good nunsploitation film, or a good horror film, or a fine drama. But it isn't any of those things because it never commits to any of them. Punt this one.
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01/30/23
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It was horrible, very dull, tedious and not frightening at all. It's an amateur movie.
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01/28/23
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