Blu-ray Release: Killer Nun

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Laurence
– October 23, 2019Find Others: Blu-ray, Movie, New Release, NewsGet More: , , ,

Blu-ray Release Date: Oct. 15, 2019
Price: Blu-ray $27.99
Studio: Arrow Video/MVD

Aging blonde-bombshell Anita Ekberg (La Dolce Vita) gives a full-bodied performance as a sex-crazed sister with some seriously bad habits in the lurid 1979 cult classic Killer Nun.

One of the most notorious ‘nunsploitation’ films, Killer Nun tells the sordid story of Sister Gertrude, a disturbed woman of the cloth who degenerates into a perverse mire of drug taking, sexual perversion, sadistic torture and murder. Joe Dallesandro (The Climber, Flesh for Frankenstein), Alida Valli (1900) and the alluring Paola Morra (Behind Convent Walls) offer spirited performances and able support to Ekberg, in this shocking tale based on real events.

Boasting an incongruously classy score by composer Alessandro Alessandroni (Women’s Camp 119) and stylishly rendered scenes of sex and murder mounted by director Giulio Berruti, Killer Nun takes the viewer on hair-raising journey from the heights of religious ecstasy to the depths of devilish degeneracy.

Here’s what the entire package contains:

  • New 2K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative
  • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
  • Uncompressed mono 1.0 LPCM audio
  • Original English and Italian soundtracks, titles and credits
  • Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
  • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
  • New audio commentary by Italian genre film connoisseurs Adrian J. Smith and David Flint
  • Beyond Convent Walls, a new video essay on nunsploitation and Killer Nun by critic Kat Ellinger
  • Starry Eyes, a new interview with director Giulio Berruti
  • Cut and Noise, a new interview with editor Mario Giacco
  • Our Mother of Hell, a new interview with actress Ileana Fraia
  • Original Italian and international theatrical trailers
  • Image gallery
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Daryl Joyce
Buy or Rent Killer Nun

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.