Nun of That

Camp Motion Pictures

All Region NTSC

Web: http://www.alternativecinema.com/

Nun of That is a marvellously camp, outrageous and bloody comedy which combines grindhouse cult cinema with lots of bad taste humour. If you are religious certainly keep away, Nun of that exploits every kind of religious joke it can find and then some more.

Hidden behind the gaze of mere mortals there is a secret order of nuns known as The Order of the Black Habit. It is divinely appointed vigilante squad which fulfils the Lord’s work by despatching irredeemable criminals to an early grave by any means possible. When one of their team is killed during a shoot-out at a local sex club as part of an operation to bring down crime boss, Momma Rizzo, a replacement must be found.

Sister Kelly is a nun with a very bad temper. She has beaten up a fellow nun for one too many unwanted advances (though she is a lesbian herself) and belted up a priest for sexually harassing a 14 year old girl in confession. She has been relegated to a rough nunnery as punishment. On the way she is attacked and during an attempted rape kills her three attackers. Suddenly three nuns appear out of nowhere and shoot her, transporting her to heaven where she meets singing and dancing son of God who explains her new role. She is to be a nun in the Order of the Black Habit and will return to earth as Sister Wraith. In Heaven she is trained in killing skills by Gandhi and Moses and now ready to kick ass she returns to earth.

She joins a squad of equally outrageous nuns including Sister Lust and Sister Gluttony. It seems that since these nuns have committed mortal sins they can do no wrong and so work for heaven doing the things no one else can do. The plot is surreal including an a doublecross, a Jewish assassin, a crime lord who has a pact with the devil and enough general weirdness to make the head spin.

Filled to the brim with every possible nunsploitation cliché, this is superb cult cinema. There are religious jokes, lots of smutty humour, lesbian nuns, gore and violence and everything else one could hope for, there is even a musical number. There is a Jewish mobster killer called Viper who adds some good old Jewish jokes into the mix and angels and demons pop in to make an appearance as well. We get even Lloyd Kaufman of Troma as the Pope !

Some of the scenes are superb comedic set pieces, the Barnun where nuns meet to unwind and get drunk is just too much, especially when they all get into a brawl.

Nun of That is a low budget campfest; filled with outrageous humour and is an absolute scream from beginning to end.

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