Well I must say that this movie is certainly an interesting addition to the slasher genre, a movie about a killer nun, well with a title like that I just had to see this, apparently this movie was part of the video nasties list back in the 1980's and well that just made me want to see this movie even more.
The basic plot Sister Gertrude (Anita Ekberg) a deranged nun who resides at a gloomy geriatric hospital and rules over her patients with an iron fist, stamping on an elderly woman's false teeth , injecting herself with morphine and even resorting to lesbianism with another nun. But someone starts killing off the patients and all signs point to Sister Gertrude, is it her or is someone out to frame her.
Well I must say that this movie is just hilarious, seconds into this movie you know that Sister Gertrude is a villain, thanks to Anita Ekberg's comical overacting performance, and plus it's known very early on that she's a junkie and addicted to sex (kinky sex) as well. It makes you think is how she was even let into the convent and how in the hell she doesn't get thrown out. Obivously this movie lacks big time in logic and sense but once the murders start this movie really gets going. There are major drawbacks in this movie, like it takes way too long to get going and the sickening scene with the old man in the wheelchair and the 20 year old girl was just plain sick and wasn't needed. Killer Nun is certainly stylish and sleazy in almost every way but lacks depth and substance, the supposed twist ending, was easily guessed, I figured it out after the first murder.
Anita Ekberg gives her role as Sister Gertrude true elegance, she was hilarious and stole every scene she was in, she was brilliant and Sister Mathieu played by Paola Morra was beautiful and shows true innocence and had great chemistry with Anita Ekberg.
All in all "Killer Nun" is a fun ride with interesting murders and certainly shocking, but it doesn't really require more than one viewing and not quite up there with the other Italian shockers that came out during this period.
The basic plot Sister Gertrude (Anita Ekberg) a deranged nun who resides at a gloomy geriatric hospital and rules over her patients with an iron fist, stamping on an elderly woman's false teeth , injecting herself with morphine and even resorting to lesbianism with another nun. But someone starts killing off the patients and all signs point to Sister Gertrude, is it her or is someone out to frame her.
Well I must say that this movie is just hilarious, seconds into this movie you know that Sister Gertrude is a villain, thanks to Anita Ekberg's comical overacting performance, and plus it's known very early on that she's a junkie and addicted to sex (kinky sex) as well. It makes you think is how she was even let into the convent and how in the hell she doesn't get thrown out. Obivously this movie lacks big time in logic and sense but once the murders start this movie really gets going. There are major drawbacks in this movie, like it takes way too long to get going and the sickening scene with the old man in the wheelchair and the 20 year old girl was just plain sick and wasn't needed. Killer Nun is certainly stylish and sleazy in almost every way but lacks depth and substance, the supposed twist ending, was easily guessed, I figured it out after the first murder.
Anita Ekberg gives her role as Sister Gertrude true elegance, she was hilarious and stole every scene she was in, she was brilliant and Sister Mathieu played by Paola Morra was beautiful and shows true innocence and had great chemistry with Anita Ekberg.
All in all "Killer Nun" is a fun ride with interesting murders and certainly shocking, but it doesn't really require more than one viewing and not quite up there with the other Italian shockers that came out during this period.