Killer Nun (1979)

Original title

Suor Omicidi

Directed by

Giulio Berruti

Genre

horror film, nunsploitation, sexploitation film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

18

Rating

4.8 of 10 from 85 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A nun undergoes brain surgery and then becomes paranoid that her illness is returning. She starts stealing opioids from the hospital where she works, and her addiction pushes her into violent madness.

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What happens

Killer Nun (Italian: Suor Omicidi, lit. Sister Murders) is a 1979 Italian nunsploitation horror film directed and co-written by Giulio Berruti, co-written by Alberto Tarallo, and starring Anita Ekberg, Joe Dallesandro, Lou Castel, and Alida Valli. Its plot follows a nun who, after recovering from brain surgery, grows increasingly paranoid that her health is again declining; she begins indulging in opioids from the hospital in which she works, and spirals into addiction and madness with violent consequences. The film is loosely based on the true story of Cécile Bombeek, a middle-aged nun who committed a series of murders in a geriatric hospital in Wetteren, Belgium in 1977. The film was originally banned in Britain as a "video nasty" and released with cuts in 1993, but was finally released uncut on DVD in the UK during 2006, after changes in British censorship policy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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