Killer Nun

Killer Nun (1979)

Suor Omicidi

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A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, while presiding over a regime of lesbianism, torture and death. Sister Gertrude is the head nurse/nun in a general hospital, whose increasingly psychotic behavior endangers the staff and patients around her.

Date of release
1979-05-09
TMDB
4.8 / 10 (87)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Director
Giulio Berruti

Casting

Interesting facts

Killer Nun 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.

Production

The film is loosely based on Cécile Bombeek, a middle-aged nun who became addicted to morphine and committed more than 30 murders in a geriatric hospital in Wetteren, Belgium from 1976-1977.

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