The Nun by Luis de la Madrid [2005]

Title: The Nun
Director: Luis de la Madrid
Starring: Anita Briem, Cristina Piaget, Alistair Freeland
Runtime: 105 minutes
Year: 2005
Source: Generation X Video

Yet again, I am fooled by a rad looking DVD cover. Damn it.

Here's a movie based around a nun who is hellbent on getting revenge on her former students that killed her. Known for enforcing strict rules and washing away sin with hardcore punishment, Sister Ursula kicks all sorts of ass.

Her students, not to stoked on the treatment they are recieving, drown her and toss her body into a lake of holy water. Years later Sister Ursula is back. Yes, this movie is as predictable as it already sounds.

I guess in an attempt to pull the Scream generation into the movie threater the director decided to add a bunch of teenagers into the otherwise adult cast. The teenagers feature Eve, daughter of the first student killed. She catches a quick glimpse of a ghostly nun when she walks in on her dying mother. Somehow she sees it to be a bright idea to drag her friends into the mess.

Like I mentioned, this movie is all sorts of predictable. If they were to avoid the teen aspect and focus more on the stronger parts of the movie [the theme behind the killings, boarding school scenes, the adults that became background co-stars, and the nun herself] then we may of had a winner. Instead, we got another dose of I Know What You Did Last Summer mixed in with a small bit of The Davinci Code. The ending provides a nice twist, too bad it takes too long to get there.

Not recommended.


j.