![]() ![]() Sister Maria, bare-breasted, flagellates herself better'n Max von Sydow in The Virgin Spring, wears a belt of thorns around her shapely waist, and often finds herself covered in someone else's blood. No, this is a show about nudity and gore, and here the film delivers. The daughter of slaves, she's overwhelmed with survivor guilt, or something. About the only person who comes anywhere close to being something like a character is one of two black nuns working as the order's cook. ![]() She's neither the petulant taskmaster nor the concerned matriarchal figure. The Mother Superior has a fair amount of screen time, but the script is vague about her, too. The supporting nuns are so thinly drawn that they aren't even really types. Actress Pezet is cute and doe-like (her features somewhat resemble Winona Ryder), but there's no character to play. Sister Maria has no back story, no character at all she's simply sweet and virginal, then corrupted and scurrilous. Under the Devil's influence, Sister Maria soon commits all manner of mayhem, from the expected steamy lesbian affairs with fellow nuns to raping and murdering pre-pubescent sheep herder Marcello (Daniel Albertos? Cast members go unidentified).Īnd that's it. Sister Maria (Cecilia Pezet) is a pious, dutiful nun stalked and eventually raped by Satan himself (Enrique Rocha). The film is virtually plotless, and is apparently set at the time of the Inquisition. The Mexican picture, whose obscurity is such that no one seems entirely sure when it was released (accounts vary from 1972-75), is strictly by the numbers hokum, but Mondo Macabro's high standard of care make this another DVD sure to please fans of such offbeat fare. Satanico Pandemonium (La Sexorcista) (1973), not to be confused with the Italian The Sexorcist (L'Ossessa, 1974), is a Mexican-made bit of Grand Guignol, "nunsploitation" made in the mammoth wake that followed Ken Russell's The Devils (1971), The Exorcist (1973), and bits from various Pasolini films.
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