The Convent of Sinners
by Joe D'Amato
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Actor: Eva Grimaldi, Gabriele Gori, Jessica Moore, Karin Well, Maria Pia ParisiDirector: Joe D'Amato
Cinematographer: Joe D'Amato
Editor: Joe D'Amato
Editor: Kathleen Stratton
Writer: Antonio Bonifacio
Writer: Daniele Stroppa
Writer: Denis Diderot
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-04-25
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Exploitation Digital
Movie Reviews of The Convent of Sinners
Movie Review: In Response To The Other Reviews...
Summary: 4 Stars
We open this film with the scene of a young girl being vulgarly violated, and if that's not shocking enough, we immediately find out she was deflowered by her own father. Her mother strolls in, says nothing to dear old dad, but accuses her daughter of being a slut, and they banish her to a nunnery. (Egad, Watson, these villagers are fiends!).
The film is prefaced with the statement, "What need has Christ of so many virgins and the human race so many victims?" (I love it when an exploitative flick gets esoteric). This movie is another example of what's defined as 'Nunsploitation', yet it's too artsy to be truly classified as such, though it more than qualifies as nunsploitation. This is true of most of these films - they're too classy and artsy to be puerile trash, and too trashy to be considered art. That's why the other reviewer's disliked this one.
Unless you're referencing 'The Devils', 'Alucarda', 'Images In A Convent', 'Sister Emmanuelle', 'Killer Nun', The Nun Of Monza' or 'Sacred Flesh', all of which are straight-up nunsploitation flix, and I own and enjoy every one of them except the 'Monza' remake by that hack Bruno Mattai (forgive me for speaking ill of the departed), these flicks all suffer or are abetted (depending on your outlook) by the director or producer being deluded into thinking that they're making an artistic statement. Even the fantastically wicked 'Satanico Pandemonium' and the supremely filthy 'Images In A Convent' are art-house porn, for chrissakes. (It's as close to art as Joe D'Amato ever got, that's for certain).
And sometimes they are art - take 'Flavia The Heretic', 'Story Of A Cloistered Nun', 'Love Letter To A Nun' and 'The Nuns Of Saint Archangel' - all of these flicks are transcendent insofar as they are Art house and exploitive at the same time. I like `em that way, but most of my 'naughty nun' brethren just want nudity, group or self-flagellation and lupine lesbo-lunacy... whatever floats your boat. In truth, I live for these elements as well. Most women think "There's no such thing as being too thin", and most men believe "There's no such thing as too much nudity". I feel ya, brother. But too often these films get trashed just because the film didn't meet the viewer's exploitive expectations. That's where I come in - I like my sleaze peppered with a little art, otherwise you might as well watch porn, right?
That said, does this film qualify as nunsploitation? Hell yeah. Absolutely. There's enough radical religious extremism counter-balanced by contradictory earthly lustful behavior and greedy conspiracy to earn the mantle. There's a bunch of naked Eurobabes in all the right compromising positions, but the portions are doled out and not gluttonous. Is it great nunsploitation? Not really and that's why. The sexual elements are more implied than exposed, too much fondling over the clothes, not quite enough nudity to gratify its audience. Opportunities for envelope-pushing eroticism abound, but are neglected and ignored, but I feel this was a deliberate decision, right or wrong.
After all is said here, I still enjoyed this flick for what it was, rather than what it wasn't. By the way, Joe D'Amato, credited with this film, did not direct it, he was the cinematographer. Now get thee to a nunnery...
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