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Nunsploitation

Killer Nun

1h 29m

Directed by Giulio Berruti • 1979 • Italy
Starring Anita Ekberg, Joe Dallesandro, Alida Valli

Anita Ekberg is a sex-crazed sister with some seriously bad habits in this lurid cult classic. One of the most notorious nunsploitation films, KILLER NUN tells the sordid story of Sister Gertrude (Ekberg), a disturbed woman of the cloth recovering from brain surgery who degenerates into a mire of drugs, perversion, sadistic torture, and murder. Joe Dallesandro, Alida Valli, and Paola Morra costar in this outrageous tale based on real events, which takes viewers on a hair-raising journey from the heights of religious ecstasy to the depths of devilish degeneracy.

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