A brief, unholy meditation on '70s-'80s era nunsploitation. Leave it to the Italian/Spanish/Mexican cinema to transmute Catholic guilt into sexual fetishism involving naughty nuns, masochism, sadism, whipping and lesbianism. (That's a lot of -isms.) As part of my study on the history of cinema fetishism, here are four typically over-the-top scenes from some nunsploitation films. These are:



(1) Satánico Pandemonium (Mexico, 1975)

(2) The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine (Italy, 1974)

(3) Images from a Convent (Italy, 1979)

(4) Convent of Sinners (Italy, 1986)



Watch at your own peril and recite 12 Hail Marys afterwards. This is part of a series on vintage underground cinema. To see more postings, search for "exploitation", "sexploitation" and "stag film". Other film clips and promos include: Olga's House of Shame, The Defilers, The Love Girls, Rent-A-Girl, Olga's Girls, Motel Confidential, Cool It Baby, All Women are Bad, The Ramrodder, Honey, women in prison and '30s French fetish films, Irving Klaw, Bettie Page, et al.

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Reviewer: fixitmanarizona - favorite favorite favorite - August 17, 2020

Subject: compilation Some other reviewers hated it, some loved it, I just laughed at it. Seven minutes of nothing much., - August 17, 2020compilation

Reviewer: eltrkbrd - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - October 23, 2019

Subject: The Song of Bernadette The Song of Bernadette behind the scenes anyone!? - October 23, 2019The Song of Bernadette

Reviewer: Apeism is Stupid - favorite - May 19, 2014

Subject: Garbage! Garbage! - May 19, 2014Garbage!

Reviewer: stingrayfilms - favorite favorite favorite - January 12, 2013

Subject: Thanks to k3paint Thanks for correcting the title of the first clip as Satánico Pandemonium. I hope someone will eventually tell me where the other unidentified clip came from. - January 12, 2013Thanks to k3paint

Reviewer: k3paint - favorite favorite favorite favorite - January 4, 2013

Subject: Name of movie in video clip asnswer SATANICO PANDEMUNIUM from 1973, Mexico. Its available on Youtube, I watched it in subtitles ay gesturestear@ youtube.com . There is not a lot of nudity, but some very nice full frontal, never graphic. Not very bloody but yet plenty of red stains the screen. This was a very good movie with a good plot, like Flavia the Heritic. - January 4, 2013Name of movie in video clip asnswer

Reviewer: Pleonic - favorite favorite - May 19, 2012

Subject: Sponge Bath & Other Oddities A nun strips to the waist and flagellates herself, a girl is beaten compelling 2 lesbian nuns to hold hands, a nun hauls a novitiate to the catacombs and whips her, then french kisses her, and 2 nuns are flogged for unaccountably giving a sponge bath to a naked young man. It looks like there was originally another segment coming where a nun foams at the mouth, but the film stops at that point. - May 19, 2012Sponge Bath & Other Oddities

Reviewer: thugbpirate - - May 13, 2012

Subject: title of first movie? any one know the title of the first video on the clip? - May 13, 2012title of first movie?

Reviewer: Neo1138 - favorite favorite favorite favorite - August 24, 2011

Subject: NICE! NICE! - August 24, 2011NICE!