Product Details

• Actors: Joanna Canton, Richard Trapp, Dax Miller, Renée Graham, Liam Kyle Sullivan
• Directors: Mike Mendez
• Writers: Chaton Anderson
• Producers: Chaton Anderson, Bernard Natalino, Brian Walker, Elliot Metz, Jed Nolan
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Lions Gate
• VHS Release Date: December 11, 2001
• Run Time: 79 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005QWA2
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #54,046 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
1959. A Car pulls up in front of the St. Francis Boarding School for Girls and out steps Christine: young and pretty... and carrying a sawed off shotgun. She coolly marches into the chapel where the nuns are in deep prayer, blows them away one by one then douses the room with gasoline. With the flick of her cigarette, the room in engulfed.
40 years later the school has been shut down and the building condemned-perfect for local fraternity antics. But when a group of students break into the cursed basilica, none of them are prepared for the horror that awaits them in the convent!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Hysterical, October 17, 2001

By	William Sorensen "yngpsych" (Saarbruecken Germany) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Convent (DVD)

If you are looking for an intelligent,scary horror film...this is not it. But if you are looking for outrageous camera work, laugh out loud lines and undead nuns, guns, and gasoline...this is flawless. It really shows that the director, writer, and actors had a blast making this and play it totally for laughs. I was on the floor cracking up through most of it and can highly recommend it for those friday night parties when you're with all your friends, had a few drinks , and don't really want to use your brains...

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Creative effect; uncreative movie., October 22, 2002

By	"shamgaranath" (Arlington, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Convent (DVD)

Now you have to give this movie some credit. There's nothing that stands out in the acting. The characters are stereotypical and, if you ask me, redundant. What stood out to me was the effects. First of all, the fight scenes were rather entertaining. For all you knew, you were watching a John Woo shootout (okay, maybe not John Woo). I'm not one for comparing movies to see how they portray possessed people. But you really gotta give these guys props for their effects and portrayal. It wasn't the typical Linda Blair. It was more like a special effects upgrade to the usual demonic possession.
So if you watch movies just for effects, you'll probably get a kick out of this. The r-rating is for sexuality (no nudity), language and graphic violence. Don't take it seriously. Just enjoy it for what it offers.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best horror/comedy in years!!, December 16, 2001

By	Robert Imes "is cool" (the great nyc) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Convent (DVD)

Think Evil Dead II or Dead-Alive. You'll laugh, puke and scream all at the same time! Though I hear the Trimark DVD is cut by a few seconds (what a moronic waste of production time!) it's still worth picking up. I absolutley love this movie. It's destined to be a cult classic.