https://vo.rs/tags/religious-horror/Latest from the Religious Horror desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Thu, 30 Nov 2023 13:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/nunsploitation-the-convent-as-a-horror-engine/<p>Take a group of women, seal them behind high walls, forbid them the flesh, place absolute authority in a single office answerable to God, and add total silence. You have just described a convent, and you have also described a pressure vessel. Exploitation cinema noticed this in the 1970s and built a whole disreputable subgenre on it — nunsploitation, the convent horror film — which spread across Italy, Spain, France and Japan and produced work ranging from the genuinely serious to the cheerfully indefensible. What unites the good and the shameless is the setting itself, one of the most efficient horror engines the movies ever found ready-made.</p>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 13:00:00 +0000