Product Details

• Actors: Anita Ekberg, Paola Morra, Alida Valli, Massimo Serato, Daniele Dublino
• Directors: Giulio Berruti
• Writers: Giulio Berruti, Alberto Tarallo
• Producers: Enzo Gallo
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Blue Underground
• DVD Release Date: October 26, 2004
• Run Time: 82 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002Y69VS
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #64,238 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Killer Nun" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

New York Daily News

"LURID & GORY! Frenetically Illustrates The Viciousness Of Religious And Sexually Driven Bigotry"

Product Description

Killer Nun

From the Secret Files of the Vatican! Uncut! Uncensored! Unholy!

Legendary Swedish sex bomb Anita Ekberg (LA DOLCE VITA) stars as sister Gertrude, a cruel nun who discovers depraved pleasure in a frenzy of drug addiction, sexual degradation and sadistic murder. Joe Dallesandro (ANDY WARHOL'S FRANKENSTEIN),Lou Castel (A BULLET FOR THE GENERAL), Alida Valli (SUSPIRIA) and the lusous Paola Morra (BEHIND CONVENT WALLS) co-star in this notorious 'Nunspolitation' sickie based on actual events that took place in a Central European country not many years ago!

Branded as obscene around the world and banned outright in Britain, Killer Nun has been completely remastered from original vault elements and is now presented with all of its blasphemous sex and violence fully restored for the first tme ever n America!

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Customer Reviews

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25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Decent, with actual story and competent direction, December 21, 2004

By	veganMalcontent - See all my reviews

This review is really to compensate for what I believe is a mildly unfair review of this movie. The truth is, you get what you paid to see, plus a little more. There's a healthy amount of exploitation; you get a great set of knockers and one or two decent murder scenes. On top of this, you get a mild amount of suspense. Not a lot, but some. The ending basically confirms your suspicions, but there's always the possibility that you're wrong, and the resolution is left until the end. The story is decent, the direction tells the story well (this is usually the failing of these low budget exploitation movies). The acting is, well, dubbed, so half the performance is lost, but I've seen acting dubbed to worse effect, so all in all the acting is acceptable and doesn't distract from the story-telling. I'm not sorry I watched this movie. And really, isn't good jiggle always worth watching?

21 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great and real true storie, February 21, 2005

By	Satanarchiste "Thierry" (Alsace, FRANCE) - See all my reviews

A blasphemous 1978 Cult classic dirrected by Giulio Berruti.
With Anita Ekberg, Joe Dallesandro, Lou Castel, Alida Valli and Paola Mora.

A killer nun ( Anita Ekberg ) slaughters and torture the patients in an asylum and find God by using drugs ( the drug adiction could substitute for God )
Plenty of sex, nudity , violence and gore, this film was labeled unacceptable by Catholic censorship groups in Italy and banned or cut in others country is presented UNCUT, remastered , and fully restored from the original elements ( this edition contains all the footage cut from the British VHS Redemption vidéo )
EXTRAS:
-From the secret files of the vatican
an intervieew with the director Giulio Berruty
-Poster and Still Gallery.

This film is based on a true storie :

In Belgium, sister Godfrieda called "the bloody sister" was arrested in February 1978 to having assassinated by insulin injection thirty old men entrusted to her care, in the old people's home of Wetteren, close to Gand ( Flandre-Orientale ) , which employed it.
The nun, described as sex maniac and morphine addict falsified the medical prescriptions to get drug.
Declared irresponsible, she was interned in 1980 for insanity. In the first days of his arrest, one rumor says she had held a diary of its misdeeds and its escapades.

The Belgian Surréalist and Anticlérical Marcel Marien ( a good friend of the painter René Magritte ) Wrote In 1978 a false diary " Le Journal secret de soeur Godfrieda " in " Le Vocatif " n° 168, Brussels, May 1978

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Killer nun stumbles, shambles, but doesn't fall at least . . ., July 5, 2005

By	Robert Cossaboon "devil doll" (The happy land of Walworth, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you are a gore monger looking for another movie to get your sadist fix (like myself sometimes!), keep walking, this isn't the one. If you are an irrepressible horndog looking to get your freak on vicariously through a little on-screen sex, you're sniffing around the wrong doghouse. In fact, Killer Nun, despite the title and some gratuitous nudity, seems to avoid any extreme at all. Sure the idea of a lonely nun who's hooked on morphine and is slowly cracking up is appealing on a surface level, director Berruti doesn't really probe deep enough, so to speak. There are some giallo elements, but anyone with half a brain cell can see the ending coming a mile away. The violence is tastefully edited so you get corner-of-the-eye hints at what happens. There are some watered down sex scenes, but they are stupid and pointless as they do nothing to further the plot of the story. As far as the acting goes, it's not woeful. Anita Ekberg would be more than welcome to administer to my religious needs anytime---and I'm an atheist. The patients at the hospital were interesting as they arguably had more character than the leads did. Perhaps this was intentional on Berruti's part. Although, there really wasn't much of a point to this film, if it has any redeeming value or any strength, it is to serve as a cautionary tale about the rigors of the cloistered life and the mental toll that a religious life of material denial can exact. You need only look at the mess of our clergy in America to see this. As for the title, as Berruti explained in the interview (under extras in the menu), the film was loosely based on a nun in a Belgian retirement home who murdered old people for their gold. There was no drug addiction or sexual depravity or bizarre death . . . thank goodness for the magic of cinema to improve on the truth!