Nuns That Bite (1977) Onna gokumon-chô: Hikisakareta nisô
Nuns That Bite (1977)
DVDRip | MKV | 720x364 | x264 @ 1941 Kbps | 68 min | 1,05 Gb
Audio: Japanese (日本語) AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Horror, Pinku
DVDRip | MKV | 720x364 | x264 @ 1941 Kbps | 68 min | 1,05 Gb
Audio: Japanese (日本語) AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Horror, Pinku
Director: Yûji Makiguchi
Writers: Toshio Shimamori (novel), Seikô Shimura (screenplay)
Stars: Hiroko Fuji, Maya Hiromi, Yoshihiro Igarashi
A woman on the run is raped, rescued, then raped again. Escaping, she heads for the hills and finds safe haven at a convent. After becoming a postulant (trainee nun), she catches her fellow sisters engaging in lesbianism, fighting over nothing, hurling snakes at each other, and engaging in mild flesh eating.
The films sounds marginally better in synopsis than it actually is. At times, it's a little slow and pedestrian, and lacks the cinematic energy someone like Suzuki or Ishii would have brought to it. Various bloody atrocities are served up such as a headless body, a severed head, bones stripped of flesh, and various stabbings and piercings. The lesbian lovemaking is erotic enough without becoming repetitious, and there are some deformed, freakish characters who should have been given moire screen time and some story relevance. One sequence involving a crazy woman performing a religious ritual and acting like she's on LSD has the Ishii feel, and could have passed as a deleted scene from "Horrors of Malformed Men".
For director Makiguchi, this is fairly restrained material. Previously, he directed the brutal, visceral "Shogun's Sadism" (aka "Joys of Torture 2: Oxen Split Torturing") and the nasty "Bizarre Crimes of Post-War Japan". "Nuns That Bite" was his last theatrical feature.
At sixty-nine minutes, the film is very short, but it feels longer because there not much plot to speak of.
Still, great to see this little-seen treat in the daylight at last, and still recommended for adventurous fans.
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Nuns That Bite (1977) Onna gokumon-chô: Hikisakareta nisô
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