A nun is wandering lost and confused through the catacombs of her convent only to come across another nun who is performing an autopsy on yet another nun, because you know, that makes all kinds of sense. The crazy autopsy nun explains to the scared nun how she must cut out all the genitalia because apparently that is the way to hell. Technically she is the convent’s embalmer so the whole mad doctor’s lab and body isn’t the problem. The fact that she’s totally bat shit insane is the problem. She’s just started gibbering over the girl parts she just carved out of the body when a monster/demon/devil thing shows up to make her even more nuts. This critter is brought to you via some sort of hollowed out head shape with two little red light bulbs that dim and brighten over and over, it is literally the worst special effect I’ve ever seen. Then the crazy nun starts stabbing the scared nun over and over, I guess because the devil made her do it.

With the opening sequence down the rest of the movie starts sliding into tedium with a few AHHH moments thrown in here and there.

A priest shows up to find out if a murderer is on the loose or if the place really is overrun by Satan. The truth is actually pretty interesting and they didn’t take the obvious route but it’s not enough to sustain your interest in the entire movie. Most of the actors work admirably with what they've been given. I’ve seen some of them before in much better movies, most notably Franca Stoppi who played Iris in Beyond the Darkness and Carlo De Mejo who was in House by the Cemetery and City of the Living Dead. These two also went on to star in a couple Emmanuelle movies with Bruno Mattei, who is the writer/director of this movie.

The soundtrack was sounding awfully familiar to me when the name Goblin popped onto the screen. This would’ve been fine, hell it would’ve been the best part of the movie but for one thing. I’m almost positive that I’ve heard the music in other Goblin scored movies. So yeah I’m thinking the score has been lifted from a movie I’ve watched before but I’d have to sit down with some Italian Goblin scored movies to tell you exactly which one they took it from. Hmmm there’s an idea for the weekend.

The effects are all over the place. Including the one I’ve already told you about there are good bloodlettings and decent guts but they also resort to explicitly showing a chicken having its head cut off. If any of you were wondering if a chicken really does run around with its head cut off this movie will answer that one for you. Tying with the blinky red light devil head is a scene involving a baby who has just been lifted out of a pot of boiling water and is exacting revenge. The baby’s mother is holding her hand over the baby’s face so all we can see is its eye looking at its would be killer. For some reason they didn’t use an actual child but a doll, so it’s an extreme close up of a dolls eye that no one is going to mistake for anything else.

I’d recommend this movie only if you’re a big Italian horror fan. Don’t watch this one if you aren’t familiar with Italian horror only because I’d hate for this to turn you off to the genre.

4 out of 10 random rooms in a convent full of dolls hanging from the ceiling by chains. There’s your WTF? right there.