Killer Nun

Anita Ekberg, a decade after La Dolce Vita, as a morphine-addicted nun in a geriatric hospital.

Nunsploitation was a substantial Italian cycle and most of it is unwatchable. This one has an actual performance in it: Ekberg plays Sister Gertrude's deterioration as physical, sweaty and undignified, and she is not being camp about it.

The film claims to be based on a true case in Belgium, which is the standard Italian marketing lie of the period.

Giulio Berruti directs it more or less straight, which makes the exploitation elements sit oddly rather than comfortably. The dentures sequence is the one people remember, and it has nothing supernatural in it at all.

Listed by the DPP and dropped.