{"id":20079,"date":"2019-09-24T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/film-review-killer-nun-1979-watch-online\/"},"modified":"2019-09-24T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T15:00:00","slug":"film-review-killer-nun-1979-watch-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/film-review-killer-nun-1979-watch-online\/","title":{"rendered":"#Film Review: Killer Nun (1979) Watch Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41581d49412\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41581d49412\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/film-review-killer-nun-1979-watch-online\/#%E2%80%9CFilm_Review_Killer_Nun_1979_Watch_Online%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Film Review: Killer Nun (1979) Watch Online&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CFilm_Review_Killer_Nun_1979_Watch_Online%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Film Review: Killer Nun (1979) Watch Online&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>If you want to watch Film Review: Killer Nun (1979)  visit the <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"629\"  src=\"https:\/\/horrornews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/KILLER_NUN_arrow-films-blu-ray.jpg\"  width=\"550\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p><strong>SYNOPSIS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Sister Gertrude (Anita Ekberg) is a nurse assigned to a geriatric sanitarium. This once dedicated nun recently underwent neurosurgery and since the operation she\u2019s struggled with morphine addiction and hallucinations. To feed her drug habit, Sister Gertrude emotionally manipulates Sister Mathieu (Paola Morra), a younger, sexually infatuated nun, into stealing morphine. Sister Gertrude\u2019s behavior grows more erratic, with escalating acts of cruelty directed towards the old folks in her care. A new doctor (Joe Dallesandro) arrives at the sanitarium and starts combing through medical records to track down the morphine thief. Now tr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed in a web of lies, Sister Gertrude\u2019s sanity crumbles and suddenly anyone she sees as a personal threat suffers a violent death\u2014yet Sister Gertrude has no memory of committing these murders. Has she really become a killer nun, or is someone else in the hospital a psychopathic killer?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>REVIEW:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer\/director Giulio Berruti\u2019s 1978 film <strong><em>Killer Nun<\/em><\/strong> was produced during a flood of similarly themed films collectively known as \u201cNunsploitation\u201d\u2014a subgenre inspired by Ken Russell\u2019s immortally immoral <em>The Devils<\/em> (1971) and kicked into high gear by the Italians. It\u2019s no surprise that Italy, a country that\u2019s produced more altar boys than the rest of the world combined, embraced nunsploitation.<span id=\"more-116800\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"236\"  src=\"https:\/\/horrornews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Killer-Nun-1979-movie-Giulio-Berruti-4.jpg\"  width=\"450\"><\/img> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"236\"  src=\"https:\/\/horrornews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Killer-Nun-1979-movie-Giulio-Berruti-5.jpg\"  width=\"450\"><\/img> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"236\"  src=\"https:\/\/horrornews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Killer-Nun-1979-movie-Giulio-Berruti-6.jpg\"  width=\"450\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>The films are an iconoclastic stab at Catholic dogma, depicting chaste, cloistered nuns suppressing their searing, pent up desires until they explode in blasphemous, orgiastic sins of the flesh\u2026 I think I just paraphrased every nunsploitation trailer! Nunsploitation films are packed with potent imagery\u2014especially if you ever did time in a Catholic school getting knuckle-whacked by the sisters of mercy. The characters\u2019 traditional nuns\u2019 habits and vestments combined with the ominous trappings of Catholicism possess a taboo appeal that transcends religious upbringing. Even in Japan, where less than three percent of the population identifies as Christian, homegrown nunsploitation films like Norifumi Suzuki\u2019s beautifully weird <em>Convent of the Sacred Beast<\/em> (AKA <em>School of the Holy Beast<\/em> 1974) were hits.<\/p>\n<p>The seventies became a feeding frenzy of cheaply produced nunsploitation films, with those deacons of degeneracy Joe D\u2019Amato (<em>Images in a Convent<\/em> 1979) and Jesus Franco (<em>Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun<\/em> 1977) leading the heretical hit parade. Many of these were period pieces, with centuries old villas doubling as convents. Finding starlets to play these 19<sup>th<\/sup> century naked nuns was a lot easier back in the seventies before today\u2019s actresses started time stamping themselves with tattoos, breast implants and Brazilian waxes.<\/p>\n<p>But nunsploitation films share one innate flaw with their sister genre, Women In Prison <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>, in that both utilize limited dramatic arcs that can render them dull as a butter knife\u2014the epitome of seen one \u2026 seen \u2019em all. There were still a few filmmakers who embraced the sub genre\u2019s dramatic limitations while still creating something unique. Artistic endeavors like Walerian Borowczyk\u2019s <em>Behind Convent Walls (1978)<\/em> combined its eroticism with scathing indictments of religious hypocrisy. Others like Mexico\u2019s <em>Sat\u00e1nico pandemonium<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>(1975) and <em>Alucarda<\/em> (1978) are just mucho gusto fiestas of sex, violence and blasphemy\u2014viva la M\u00e9jico!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"236\"  src=\"https:\/\/horrornews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Killer-Nun-1979-movie-Giulio-Berruti-7.jpg\"  width=\"450\"><\/img> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"638\"  src=\"https:\/\/horrornews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Killer-Nun-1979-movie-Giulio-Berruti-9.jpg\"  width=\"450\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p><em>Killer Nun<\/em> came in at the tail end of this papal porn procession, meaning its producers had to decide whether to leap into the softcore sex realm with Franco and company or create something more upscale with a bit of star appeal that would stand out from the pack. They chose the latter\u2014so don\u2019t expect any satanic orgies, smoking hot nun-on-nun action or lonely sisters committing \u201csolitary sin\u201d with sacred relics. But in trying to uplift the sub genre they tossed out some of the key ingredients its built-in audience craved.<\/p>\n<p>Berruti\u2019s first misstep was making his nuns into nurses and caregivers assigned to a geriatric sanitarium\u2014discarding the tried and true convent setting. Without that cloistered religious backdrop we lose the voyeuristic thrill of peering into a secret, taboo world. This was a critical mistake because nunsploitation films rely on a distinct unholy trinity to prop them up\u2014a religious backdrop, blasphemous plotlines and, finally, casting innocent looking actresses willing to perform erotic scenes.<\/p>\n<p>That final trinity leads us to <em>Killer Nun\u2019s <\/em>next stumbling block\u2014Anita Ekberg. During the 1960s this former Miss Sweden was considered one of cinema\u2019s sexiest woman, and her unrestrained fountain dance in Fellini\u2019s 1960 classic <em>La Dolce Vita<\/em> is the stuff of legend. But time and the celebrity high life took their toll, so by 1978 she was no longer willing to bare herself on camera. That\u2019s a big problem for a film about an amoral, junkie nun who seduces men and women alike.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"585\"  src=\"https:\/\/horrornews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Killer-Nun-1979-movie-Giulio-Berruti-8.jpg\"  width=\"450\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>Ekberg also tried to hide her age behind heavy makeup and large false eyelashes\u2014a vanity so inappropriate that it launches Sister Gertrude into the stratosphere of high camp; it\u2019s as if she belonged to the order \u201cOur Lady of Cosmetology\u201d. Halfway through <em>Killer Nun<\/em> I realized how amazing drag legend Divine (<em>Pink Flamingos<\/em>) would have been in that role. Unfortunately, <em>Killer Nun<\/em> is written without a drop of campiness or humor. Sister Gertrude\u2019s descent into madness would have been challenging for any performer, but despite her once sizzling screen presence Ekberg was never a strong dramatic actress. Even her most crazed moments fall flat, despite the director bolstering these scenes with some surreal visual touches.<\/p>\n<p>She musters more energy in the scenes where she emotionally abuses Sister Mathieu (Paola Morra), an infatuated younger nun who\u2019ll do anything to earn the older woman\u2019s love. But I\u2019m really not sure if Ekberg was acting. Watching this aging glamour queen berate and humiliate the younger actress is uncomfortable because Ekberg\u2019s venom feels genuine, as does Morra\u2019s humiliation\u2014yet neither were particularly good actresses. I\u2019m betting <em>Killer Nun<\/em> wasn\u2019t a happy film set. There\u2019s still one amusing moment when Ekberg\u2019s Sister Gertrude glares at Morra\u2019s bare breasts and scornfully calls them \u201cFloppy,\u201d proving her character is truly insane.<\/p>\n<p>Paola Morra was a former Italian Playboy Playmate who\u2019d also appeared in Borowczyk\u2019s <em>Behind Convent Walls. <\/em>Since Ekberg wasn\u2019t showing any skin, it fell on Morra to provide all of the film\u2019s nudity\u2014quite a burden to place on her bare shoulders. The problem is that all her screen time consists of either being humiliated by Sister Gertrude or debasing herself to protect the older nun, so even the nudity becomes depressing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"629\"  src=\"https:\/\/horrornews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Killer-Nun-1979-movie-Giulio-Berruti-10.jpg\"  width=\"450\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>The new, crusading doctor is played by Andy Warhol discovery Joe Dallesandro (<em>Flesh<\/em> 1968, <em>Trash <\/em>1970). In <em>Flesh for Frankenstein <\/em>(1973) and <em>Blood for Dracula<\/em> (1974) director Paul Morrissey cleverly used Dallesandro\u2019s thick, inappropriate New York accent to comedic effect by never bothering to explain it\u2014he was a Transylvanian peasant who inexplicably sounded like he\u2019d just gotten off the subway. That distinctive voice and propensity to wander around naked became his onscreen trademarks. But in <em>Killer Nun<\/em> he keeps his clothes on and is re-dubbed by a monotone voiceover artist. S<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>ped of his assets, he becomes a piece of human furniture. In one particularly creepy scene Paola Morra tearfully begs him not to turn Sister Gertrude into the police, until she\u2019s finally reduced to groveling at his feet and licking his zipper. Through it all he never displays a shred of emotion or even appears interested. It\u2019s a shame because, despite Dallesandro never being a great actor, he was always fun to watch.<\/p>\n<p>Writer\/director Giulio Berruti tries to enhance Sister Gertrude\u2019s hallucinations with some surreal visual tableaus. It\u2019s a noble effort that provides the film\u2019s most memorable visual moments. There are also some gruesome murders that landed <em>Killer Nun<\/em> on the fabled British \u201cVideo Nasties\u201d list, including a genuinely flinch inducing bit of needle torture. But these grisly sequences have a \u201cpasted in\u201d feel, as if the producers saw trouble and decided to beef up the violence. I\u2019m guessing there were some extensive pick-up shots done after principal photography. Maybe the producers should have pulled in those nunsploitation \u201cpros from Dover\u201d D\u2019Amato and Franco to drag the film down to their audience pleasing level.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"236\"  src=\"https:\/\/horrornews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Killer-Nun-1979-movie-Giulio-Berruti-1.jpg\"  width=\"450\"><\/img> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"236\"  src=\"https:\/\/horrornews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Killer-Nun-1979-movie-Giulio-Berruti-2.jpg\"  width=\"450\"><\/img> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"236\"  src=\"https:\/\/horrornews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Killer-Nun-1979-movie-Giulio-Berruti-3.jpg\"  width=\"450\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>Despite its great title, <em>Killer Nun<\/em> isn\u2019t \u201c<em>gunpowder, gelatine, dynamite with a laser beam,\u201d<\/em> and probably won\u2019t blow your mind. So if you\u2019re craving blasphemous, sexy squalor (be honest), just reach for that Mexican dynamic duo <em>Sat\u00e1nico pandemonium<\/em> and <em>Alucarda<\/em>. If you still want to explore this flat attempt at combining exploitation and high drama, Blue Underground\u2019s Blu-ray restoration looks great and has a revealing interview with the director, who was clearly not a happy camper.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"236\"  src=\"https:\/\/horrornews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Killer-Nun-1979-movie-Giulio-Berruti-12.jpg\"  width=\"450\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>And now, after my extensive research into the realms of nunsploitation, I need to do fifteen Hail Marys and clear my browser history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 New 2K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Uncompressed mono 1.0 LPCM audio<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Original English and Italian soundtracks, titles and credits<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 New audio commentary by Italian genre film connoisseurs Adrian J. Smith and David Flint<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <i>Beyond Convent Walls<\/i>, a new video essay on nunsploitation and Killer Nun by critic Kat Ellinger<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <i>Starry Eyes<\/i>, a new interview with director Giulio Berruti<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <i>Cut and Noise<\/i>, a new interview with editor Mario Giacco<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <i>Our Mother of Hell<\/i>, a new interview with actress Ileana Fraia<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Original Italian and international theatrical trailers<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Image gallery<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Daryl Joyce<\/p>\n<p>Killer Nun is now on bluray per Arrow films<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/horrornews.net\/116800\/film-review-killer-nun-1979\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-movies-tv-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch Movies &#038; TV Series <\/a>category<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to watch Movies or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Film Review: Killer Nun (1979) Watch Online&#8221; If you want to watch Film Review: Killer Nun (1979) visit the Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com SYNOPSIS: Sister Gertrude (Anita Ekberg) is a nurse assigned to a geriatric sanitarium. 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