Considering how prevalent images of demonically possessed and sexually “perverse” nuns are on screen — from 1947’s “Black Narcissus” to this month’s “Agnes” — you might wonder how convents haven’t all ...

Nunsploitation is, with a handful of exceptions, thoroughly European, albeit with culturally-specific Japanese and Mexican offshoots. The milieu is generally agreed to have begun with Michael Powell ...

The beauty behind being a horror film fan is when you find that one perfect horror film. Whether it be a highly praised title from critics or obscure titles with a cult following, there comes a film ...

A young American nun encounters shocking horrors at a remote Italian convent in “Immaculate,” a modern Gothic slow burn that simmers in pedestrian frights until it finally boils over into bursts of ...

Lest anyone think Paul Verhoeven’s latest shocker was intended to be a serious look at sexuality in religious service, the promotional poster for the film plastered around the Cannes Film Festival — ...

Sydney Sweeney is quickly washing off the stink of Madame Web thanks to her new horror movie Immaculate. The “nunsploitation” film premiered at SXSW on Tuesday night, spurring a flurry of reactions to ...

The core concept for Andy Crane and Nathan Shepka’s The Baby in the Basket piqued my curiosity immediately. A nunsploitation film with a demonic baby wreaking havoc in an isolated nunnery. Sign me up ...

In Jeff Baena’s “The Little Hours,” a cheeky adaptation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th century collection of novellas, “The Decameron,” the filmmaker makes an attempt at “nunsploitation,” that 1970s sub ...

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