Nympha (2007)
The lovely Tiffany Shepis stars in this Italian piece of nunsploitation.
The story of a girl (Shepis) who joins the strict New Order convent in Italy is remarkable in it's unrelenting joylessness. Despite Tiff being au naturel for swathes of it's running time the scenes of lesbian love are somewhat diluted by the fact she undergoes sickening perversions in the name of God throughout the film.
So she has her ear drums perforated with a scalpel, followed by acid dripped into her eyes, her hands horrifically burned and her tongue cut out as well. Not all at once, throughout the film. Shepis is excellent and her portrayal of pain is harrowing and technically the film does well for a low budget production, however it's a joyless ninety minutes and it revels in it's ravishing grimness the likes i've not seen since Martyrs.
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