The Nunsploitation and Convent-Horror Shortlist

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Put a group of people behind a high wall, take away their names, forbid them the one thing every drama runs on, and you have built a machine for tension before a single frame is shot. The convent is that machine. It is why the setting keeps luring filmmakers who otherwise share nothing — a Powell-and-Pressburger Technicolor prestige picture and a grubby Rome quickie can both be set in the same cloister and both be right, because the architecture does the work. Repression concentrates whatever it contains.

Vampyros Lesbos: Jess Franco's Hypnotic Eurotrash Landmark

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Most vampire films want to frighten you. Vampyros Lesbos wants to put you under. Jess Franco’s 1971 German-Spanish production is a horror film in the loosest possible sense — a Dracula riff with the fear surgically removed and mood pumped in to fill the cavity. What remains is a slow, sun-drenched trance about a woman drawn across the water toward a countess who lives on an island, told in zoom lenses and reflected light and one of the most hypnotic pop scores of the era. For decades it was a bootleg-tape rumour among Eurocult obsessives. It deserves the wider audience it eventually found.

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The Nunsploitation and Convent-Horror Shortlist

Vampyros Lesbos: Jess Franco's Hypnotic Eurotrash Landmark