Cecilia (Sydney Sweeney) is a devout young woman who found faith when she fell into a frozen lake as a child and clinically died for 7 minutes. When her church closes, she is headhunted for a monastary in Italy, and decides to take the vows. But at this picturesque home for aging nuns in their final years, she finds something awry...
I'm so glad that the "Nunsploitation" genre is back.
It uses the baroque, lovely scenery and buildings well, and has grand guignol sweeping shots and zooms, and even a fair few Giallo-esque dream sequences and costumes to boot on top of its religious trappings. It's well shot, and a bit of a throwback to old school 70s nun movies and creepy Italian stuff. Sweeney is great in it, and there is some amazing gore to boot.
But that ending? Holy shit, what an ending. The final act is where it comes together (refreshingly!) and its final shots are haunting, intense shit.
I recommend.
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