To honor the passing of Pope Francis, I’m reposting a nunsploitation video I did back in my Youtube days. Every if you followed my work back then, it’s possible you haven’t seen this one. I have a strong suspicion that this is the video that got my channel banned. It was starting to blow up for a day or two before the ban.
The discussion here is a sequel to the video I did providing an overview of the history and elements of nunsploitation generally, which was also paired with a thorough analysis of Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971). Russell’s film remains the foundational masterpiece, but these four films provide a panoramic view of what nunsploitation became throughout the 1970s: a complex exploitation subgenre with fascination variations thematically, geographically, and stylistically.
Timestamps
0:00 - introduction
0:34 - Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973)
5:19 -Satanic Pandemonium (1975)
10:08 - Alucarda (1977)
15:08 - Killer Nun (1979)
Here I refer to these four as the “best” nunsploitation films alongside The Devils, but in retrospect I feel like I’m leaving an important one out: Bruno Mattei’s The True Story of the Nun of Monza (1980). That’s another very important one that I’ve come to appreciate greatly. You can be sure that Monza will be featured in my next video on nunsploitation, which will also analyze the nunsploitation-horror movie Mattei filmed concurrently using the same sets and cast: The Other Hell (1981). Stay tuned!
But before that, we’ll return to the career of Jean Rollin to finish out the last two chapters of our five-part Voluptuous Melancholy series. Catch up on our Rollin series here.
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