Killer Nun (1979): So Offensive That One of Us Walked Out After 10 Minutes | Filthy Habits

Bill and Stephanie are joined once again by returning guest Christopher Hoppe, previously heard on the show’s Stigmata episode, to discuss the notorious 1979 nunsploitation film Killer Nun starring Anita Ekberg and Joe Dallesandro. Inspired by a real, true crime case, the film follows Sister Gertrude, a morphine dependent nun whose grip on reality steadily collapses inside a convent hospital.

The episode covers the strange intersection of Catholic imagery, Italian exploitation cinema, psychological horror, and late 1970s grindhouse filmmaking, along with Anita Ekberg’s career after La Dolce Vita and the larger wave of controversial religious horror films coming out of Italy at the time.

Stephanie, however, barely made it through the movie. About ten minutes in, the dentures scene had her exiting the screening room, leaving Bill and Christopher to continue through the film’s murders, hallucinations, casual hookups, elder abuse, ludicrous nude scenes, and drug abuse.

We're also discussing cult cinema, giallo films, actors in political exile,  nunsploitation, Catholicism, and one of the more notorious entries in 1970s Italian horror.

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