Nunsploitation ranked by blasphemy

1known

The Devils

A great film about power, still censored fifty years on.

2cult

Flavia the Heretic

Far angrier and more political than the packaging suggests.

3cult

Alucarda

The most hysterical nunsploitation film ever made. A convent, two possessed girls, and constant screaming.

4cult

School of the Holy Beast

The Japanese entry, and formally the most accomplished of them.

5cult

Killer Nun

Anita Ekberg, morphine, and a plot that gives up around the hour mark.

6cult

Behind Convent Walls

Borowczyk brings his erotic art-house eye to the convent. Beautiful, explicit and barely plotted.

7cult

The Nun and the Devil

Convent politics played as Renaissance power-drama. More Borgia than bondage.