Oh, yeah. One of my favorites under the category "It's so bad, it's good." Now follows a long story. Usually, I eat lunch at work, but one day, I went home for lunch.
And wanting to watch something on TV, I just happened to turn on the channel, which was showing this movie. Only saw about 30 minutes of it, but it, so intrigued me, that I later rented the video, so I could see it all the way through.
Probably the best thing the notorious Joe D'Amato has ever done. Even better then his "Ator, the Fighting Eagle" and its sequel "Blademaster." Though, that may not be saying much, as according to
www.imdb.com, he has 42 different aliases, and his movies go straight to video, usually at the average of more then one a month.
I remember a couple of gory scenes from the film. In one, a nun tries to cut her throat with a piece of broken glass. (What is it with Italian Catholics and nuns?) And in the other, a group of people are playing Russian roulette around a table, and one gets to see a man blow hs brains all over the light bulb above him.
There is one intriguing thing about the film. One does wonder whether Ken Russell saw or knew of this film, before he made his "Lair of the White Worm." Both have rape scenes that are quite similiar. One is the rape of a group of nuns. (What is it with Catholics and nuns?) And the other is the rape and murder of a teenage boy. Though, both scenes in Russell's film are far more graphic then those in D'Amato's.
