The film is considered the granddaddy of nunsploitation having sparked a tidal wave of imitators that brought about a Golden Age of nunsploitation films in the 1970s. Highly controversial, The Devils is a must-see for any fan of the genre. If you live in the Los Angeles area, Nunsploitation.Net strongly encourages you to attend.
You can read our review and watch the Devils trailer to get a sneak peek at what lies ahead. Trust us. You don't want to miss this opportunity to see a classic nunsploitation film on the big screen.
Also playing is Lucio Fulci's Beatrice Cenci (1969).
Monday, July 6, 2009 Beyonce wants in on Sister Act
Beyonce was reportedly impressed by the stage version of Sister Act at the London Palladium and is now trying to persuade Disney into backing a new movie for her to star in. Yes, a movie based on the musical based on the movie.
Beyonce would play the role of sexy lounge singer Deloris Van Cartier who was originally portrayed by Whoopi Goldberg in the movies and is currently played by Patina Miller in the stage version. The U.K.'s Daily Mail even speculates that the role of the Mother Superior would go to Doubt's Meryl Streep!
While she awaits Disney's okay, Beyonce is mulling the idea of remaking the Sister Act hit "Take Me to Heaven".
With a sexy new star, could the new Sister Act take a more nunsploitation-friendly spin on the original? We can only hope!
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 Sexy nun ice cream ad too risqué for the U.K.
An ice cream ad featuring a nun and a priest about to kiss has been deemed too sexy for UK audiences. The Advertising Standards Authority banned the ad after receiving just 10 complaints.
The ad for Antonio Federici Italiano Gellato ice cream features a nun and a priest closing in for a kiss. In the sexiest version of the ad, the priest is bare-chested. According to Federici, "the ad was intended as a light-hearted, tongue in cheek portrayal celebrating forbidden Italian temptations."
Also known in some countries as Decameron Pie, Virgin Territory is Dino De Laurentis' hip, new reimagining of Giovanni Boccaccio's Il Decameron. The new movie features a hot, young cast including Hayden Christensen (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith) and Mischa Barton (The O.C.).
One of Boccacio's stories that makes in the movie is our favorite, "Massetto and the Nuns". Christensen's character pretends to be deaf and dumb so he can land a job as the convent gardner and bed all the nuns. It's hotter than you can imagine!
Saturday, June 27, 2009 It's Parker's turn to be a nun on 'Leverage'
If you're a fan of TNT's newest hit show Leverage, then you may have enjoyed the episode "The Stork Job" late last year in which Gina Bellman's character Sophie landed a role as a nun and appeared in full nun garb.
If you missed it don't fret! Nunsploitation fans will be treated again as the show returns July 15. This time, it's Parker's (Beth Riesgraf) turn to dress as a nun and she's wearing a garter similar to Ursula Andress in Africa Express!
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 Love Letters of a Nun released
Today's the day that Jorge Grau's Love Letters of a Nun (AKA: Cartas de Amor de una Monja) gets the DVD treatment in North America courtesy of Televista.
Festival director Hannah McGill has highlighted The Calling star, Emily Beecham, as one of the festival's 'Trailblazers'.
Beecham recently described her role as the initiate Joanna to The Scotsman: "She receives pressure from her family, her best friend and her boyfriend, as none of them want her to leave, but she's very determined and knows that she wants to do it for all the right reasons — unlike some of the others. We discover all is not what it seems."
Sounds like a nunsploitation hallmark to us! The Calling screens June 21.
Thursday, June 11, 2009 Abi Titmuss cast as a nun
In a case of delightfully tongue-in-cheek casting, Abi Titmuss has been cast as a nun, Sister Violet, in an upcoming episode of Hotel Babylon.
In its fourth season, Hotel Babylon is a popular British TV drama that showcases the sexy side of the high-class hotel business. Titmuss is slated to debut as Sister Violet in the first episode of the fourth season airing June 19.
Abi Titmuss was catapaulted into fame when a sex tape featuring her and celebrity boyfriend John Leslie was made public. The former nurse went on to glamor modeling and landed a job as a host for the British pornographic channel, Television X. Most recently, she appeared as a pole dancing instructor in the stage play "The Naked Truth".
Sunday, June 7, 2009 Celebrity nun musings: Heather Graham &mdash a bad nun
Heather Graham, whom you may know from her role as Felicity Shagwell in Austin Powers, told the Daily Mail that she often wonders what her life would have been like if she had become a nun.
"I've often wondered how that would have worked out," Graham told reporters. "I'd have made a terrible nun. I'm a good Catholic girl in the way that Madonna is. In the sense that I'm not that good at all."
You know Heather, if you ever want to try out being a bad nun, we have a few movie roles in mind for you....
Celebrity nun musings: Lady Gaga &mdash the nuns would be proud!
Scantily clad songstress Lady Gaga insists that the nuns who instructed her at New York's Convent of the Sacred Heart Catholic school would be proud of her.
"I haven't had any feedback from the nuns. But it's interesting because I think everyone assumes that because I went to such a religious school perhaps they don't appreciate what I'm doing now. But it is quite the opposite," she told reporters. "I got a really solid education, in particular how to analyse art, how to make art. So if anything, my teachers are sort of nodding their heads and saying, 'She did a good job of using her artistic abilities to really create a new kind of pop.' "
We can't vouch for the nuns, Lady Gaga, but take assurance in this — we approve of your outfits! Especially that one you're wearing on the cover of Rolling Stone!
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 TCM scores White Sister
Turner Classic Movies has enlisted the talents of Lawrence University student Garth Neustadter to compose a new score for the 1923 nunsploitation classic The White Sister.
Neustadter was originally tapped to compose a piano score, but he went the extra mile and created a score for a full orchestra. "I thought the film really needed taht dramatic effect and all the different colors that can be brought out by an orchestra," Neustadter told Fox News.
Look for The White Sister and it's new musical accompaniment on TCM's Silent Nights.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Sister Hermione?
Nineteen-year-old actress Emma Watson, best known for playing Hermione Granger of Harry Potter fame, has recently posed for an artsy, sometimes sexy, photoshoot for French publication Crash.
Of primary interest to nunsploitation fans is the image (pictured left) in which she appears dressed as a ghostly faux nun, her face painted white and her hair bound in a wimple. Could there be a nunsploitation film in Watson's future? We can only hope!
Sunday, May 24, 2009 Bad Lieutenant special edition DVD
Lions Gate has announced a new special edition DVD for Bad Lieutenant. Special features include commentary by director Abel Ferrara and director of photography Ken Kelsch and a retrospecitive documentary with interviews with the cast and crew.
In the movie, Harvey Keitel portrays a corrupt cop who investigates the brutal rape of a nun. The DVD is scheduled to be released July 28 and is available for preorder now from HK Flix and Video Universe!
Sexy nuns descend from the heavens
No, it's not a dream, not a joke and not an imaginary story.
Traffic slowed to a halt in London as nuns in stockings and stillettos descended from the sky. A nunsploitation fan's dream come true, it was actually a publicity stunt promoting the London preview of the Sister Act musical.
These nuns weren't angels (not literally, at least), they were hired performers rappelling from the face of London's Palladium.
Saturday, May 23, 2009 Fiancée of Dracula slated for August
Salvation Films has announced an August 25 North American release date for their DVD treatment of Jean Rollin's Fiancée of Dracula.
Dracula is safely banished. His bride is incarcerated in a convent and watched over by an order of nuns. But Dracula remains in telepathic contact with his bride and her presence slowly drives the nuns insane!
Finally! The folks at JapanAnime have gotten out of their slump and have rewarded our patience with the second and final installment of one of the greatest hentai nunsploitation anime shows ever made Dark Chapel!
Based on the Japanese PC game by Blackpagetry, Dark Chapel is the story of Sister Rosalia, a devout nun who is blackmailed by a criminal rapist from her past. Disguised as a priest, the diabolical Father Edward threatens to kill an entire village unless Sister Rosalia becomes his sex slave!
Again and again, Father Edward subjects Sister Rosalia to one sexual humiliation after another. In submitting to him, she saves the village. Will Sister Rosalia ever be able to break free of this twisted dark chapel of lust?
Friday, April 24, 2009 Arn: The Knight Templar, Sins of the Sisters reviewed
We've been on a reviewing crusade! We've got two new reviews of nunsploitation movies dealing with the crusades.
First up is our review of the multimillion dollar Swedish film Arn: The Knight Templar. While not exclusively a nunsploitation movie, it has more than its fair share of worthy scenes.
Next, we review the hentai anime Sins of the Sisters. An ambitious crusader is betrayed by the pope and sold into slavery. He vows revenge and is reincarnated as a transsexual Japanese school girl (we are not making this up!) Despite the strong sexual themes, the movie was surprisingly tame.
Viridiana screens in New York and Spain
Luis Buñuel's controversial nunsploitation shocker Viridiana screens today through April 30 at New York City's Film Forum
In addition, the film will be honored today at Malaga Festival of Spanish Film. The celebration includes a reunion of the surviving cast including Silvia Piñal and Juan Luis Buñuel, the son of the director who had the honor of smuggling the reels out of Spain when Franco ordered them to be burned!
Jack Cardiff, famed cinematographer of Black Narcissus, dies
Jack Cardiff the cinematographer of Powel & Pressburger's 1947 nunsploitation masterpiece Black Narcissus died at his home in Cabridgeshire, England, at age 94.
Cardiff was famed for his skill as a director of photography. Martin Scorcese said that Cardiff could "paint with a camera". His work on Black Narcissus was no exception, earning him an Academy Award for best color cinematography.
Sunday, April 19, 2009 Nuns of St. Archangel on DVD Tuesday!
Nunsploitation fans should prepare themselves for the North American DVD version of The Nuns of St. Archangel scheduled to be released by Media Blasters on Tuesday.
In the meantime, check out a trailer and our review of the German DVD release.
Arn: The Knight Templar screens at Newport Beach
The Newport Beach Film Festival is offering a screening of the big-budget Swedish film Arn: The Knight Templar.
Based on Jan Guillou's best-selling novels, The Crusades Triology, the movie is about Arn Magnusson who is forced apart from his true love, Cecilia. Arn must endure a twenty year sentence as a Knight Templar defending Jerusalem from the Muslims while Cecilia is imprisoned in a convent under the strict supervision of a cruel Mother Superior.
We have a trailer for you to check out and we'll have a review and screen caps up soon!
We've got another review ready for your consumption! This time around, we visit Pier Paolo Pasolini's film adaptation of Giovanni Boccaccio's Il Decameron in his movie of the same name.
In Il Decameron, Pasolini adapts nine short stories to film, including our favorite, "Massetto and the Nuns". Pasolini's Decameron movie was so hugely successful, it spawned a host of imitators and, along with Ken Russell's The Devils, it helped fuel a Golden Age of nunsploitation films. Truly a landmark film of the genre, Decameron is certainly worthy of our review.
Monday, April 6, 2009 Nunsploitation reminders
Just a reminder that John Patrick Shanley's Doubt is scheduled to be released on DVD Tuesday. The movie features Meryl Streep and Amy Adams as nuns who must confront a priest about sexual misconduct.
Then, on April 10 and 11, Nun of That premieres at the Columbus Theater in Providence, Rhode Island. Tickets are $9 at the door.
Sarah Nicklin stars as the habit that will break you!
Sunday, April 5, 2009 Sins of Sister Lucia reviewed!
We've finally gotten the chance to sit down and watch Koyu Ohara's Sins of Sister Lucia which gets the DVD treatment courtesy of Mondo Macabro!
Check out our review of this classic entry into the annals of Japanese nunsploitation history! We've also got an image gallery and a movie trailer for your enjoyment!
Belgian Singing Nun movie praised at festival
The new Belgian singing nun movie, Soeur Sourire has won the Jury Prize and Public Prize at the Palmarès de la Compétition Officielle.
Soeur Sourire features Cécile De France as Jeannine Deckers, the famous Singing Nun who briefly surpassed the Beatles and Elvis with her 1963 hit song Dominique.
The movie is scheduled to open in theaters April 30 in Belgium and France.
From lap dancer to nun
If you think this is an April Fool's joke, you're not alone, but it's true! Sister Anna Nobili is a former lap dancer who spent twenty years of her life stripping in clubs throughout Europe. Now, she's a nun who practices a form of "mystic choreography" she calls the "Holy Dance".
She scheduled to perform this week in Rome before bishops and cardinals! Read more about Sister Anna Nobili!
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 Sky Arts to release Devils directors cut!
Sky Arts has acquired a series of documentaries and interviews with lauded movie directors including a documentary on Ken Russell's nunsploitation classic The Devils. In addition to the documentary, Sky Arts has obtained the rights to a special director's cut of The Devils.
This hugely controversial film was so wildly popular that it spawned a long line of imitators, creating a Golden Age of nunsploitation sinema in the 1970s.
The documentaries are slated to be released in August
Silencer reviewed
We sink our teeth into a little-known film called The Silencer featuring a sexy assassin (Lynette Walden) who gets paid to kill crooks while wearing the skimpiest outfits ever.
What does this have to do with nunsploitation? Why, she wears a nun's habit to one of her killings of course! Check out our review. The Silencer is available as part of the Max Action Collection from HK Flix. Eight movies for $8.95! How can you go wrong?
Sunday, March 29, 2009 Coming soon: Warrior Nun Areala — the movie!
Ben Dunn, the creator of Warrior Nun Areala has signed a deal with Vancouver-based Perfect Circle for a movie adaptation of his incredible nunsploitation comic book!
Warrior Nun Areala is the story of Sister Shannon, a nun who has been chosen to be the living embodiment of Areala, a Valkyrie who converted to Catholicism and founded an order of warrior nuns who exorcise demons.
Saturday, March 28, 2009 Tenebrous Kate reviews Behind Convent Walls
Tenebrous Kate has been hard at work for you, our loyal nunsploitation fans, poring over Walerian Borowczyk's classic Behind Convent Walls.
Loosely based on Stendhal's Promenades dans Rome, Behind Convent Walls is a classic of the genre, offering viewers a whimsical tour of forbidden erotica within a convent.
Check out Tenebrous Kate's review of this amazing nunsploitation film. We've uploaded screen captures and a trailer for the occasion!
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 Doubt hits the shelves April 7
Nominated for 5 Academy Awards, John Patrick Shanley's Doubt is probably the most successful, most acclaimed nunsploitation film since The Devils.
Sadly, it doesn't exactly fit in the genre, but hopefully its success will prompt more nun movies and more actresses will seek nun roles. Doubt may yet have a very strong impact on the future of the genre.
The movie is scheduled for an April 7 DVD release. It's available for pre order now from our sponsor CD Universe
Saturday, February 28, 2009 ThreeAsFour designs the nuns of the future
Fashion design collective ThreeAsFour has been dazzling the runway with their new line of Fall and Spring fashions that are evocative of the outfits of futuristic, sexy nuns.
These amazing designs are sexy, yet practical and — by some miracle of creativity and design — undeniably nunlike! Could this be the new look of nuns in the near future? We can only hope so!
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 Nun of That premiers April 10
Scorpio Films Releasing has announced the world premier of Nun of That, a new grindhouse-style nunsploitation extravaganza!
The movie premieres April 10 at the Columbus Theater in Providence, Rhode Island. Tickets will be $9 at the door, or you can order them online.
Director Richard Griffin will be on hand along with members of the cast and crew. There will be additional showings April 11.
Saturday, February 21, 2009 Severin to release L'Alcova
Severin has announced plans to release Joe D'Amato's L'Alcova (AKA: The Alcove) on DVD.
Featuring the sizzling combination of Laura Gemser (Sister Emanuelle) and Lili Carati, the movie itself isn't quite a nunsploitation film. What catches our attention is the amateur porn flick being filmed within the movie, "The Mysteries of the Inquisition.
Media Blasters has pushed back the release date for Nuns of St. Archangel (again). The DVD is now slated for release on April 21.
Salvation Films has announced a re-re-release date for Nigel Wingrove's nunsploitation film Sacred Flesh. The movie is scheduled to hit the shelves May 19.
Now that the distribution rights for Sacred Flesh is back in Redemption's hands, could this pave the way for a U.S. release of Salvation's nunsploitation box set, Let Us Prey? We can only hope!
Saturday, February 14, 2009 New releases reminder
Just a reminder to nunsploitation fans that February 24 is a big day for new releases!
Finally, Severin is unveiling the ultimate version of Malabimba. This time, they've managed to find all of the nasty hardcore footage and they have reintigrated it into the film!
These movies are all available from our sponsor HK Flix!
New nunsploitation reviews!
We've dug deep into our nunsploitation archives to bring you more reviews! Check out out these classics:
First, Christina is a free spirit who swears off sex and pledges to become a nun if God spares her life when her plane takes a nose dive. Can this insatiable nymph stay true to her word? Check out Christina, the Devil Nun!
Gloria Guida plays a hawt nun nurse who cares for a dying old man. She grants him his final wish and strips for him in a famous scene in La Novizia!
Asuave executor searches a convent school for the heiress to a huge fortune in Devils in the Convent. Can the school girls keep their clothes on long enough for him to get the job done?
Nunsploitation.Net mourns the passing of one of the genre's greatest nuns, Kathleen Byron whose unforgettable performance brought to life the character of Sister Ruth in Powell & Pressburger's Black Narcissus.
Byron once recounted the story of how Michael Powell telegrammed to inform her she had landed the part of Sister Ruth. "The trouble is," he wrote, "you'll never have such a good one again."
Kathleen Byron died January 18 at the age of 88.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Nuns of St. Archangel (finally!) and Sins of Sister Lucia
February heats up with the release of two hot nunsploitation titles. After a long delay, Exploitation Digital is finally releasing The Nuns of St. Archangel featuring nunsploitation staple Anne Heywood.
In addition, Mondo Macabro is bringing Koyu Ohara's Sister Lucia's Dishonor to North America under the title Sins of Sister Lucia. Nunsploitation fans may recognize Koyu Ohara as the director of the craziest nunsploitation movie ever Wet Rope Confession.
Saturday, January 10, 2009 New Galleries! Annie Cruz, Mistress Persephone and Isabella Camille
We've added three new hot and sexy image sets to our Naughty Nun Gallery. Mistress Persephone returns to reprise her role as the horror sex nun. Annie Cruz is a ruthless Sister Superior who initiates a novice into the Order of Horror Castle. Isabella Camille violates her vow of celibacy and becomes Satan's sex toy in "Broken Vows".
Special thanks to our sponsor XXX Horror for hosting these galleries! Be sure to check them out for more pictures and videos of hot sexy nuns!
