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Anita Briem, Belen Blanco, Cristina Piaget, Paulina Gálvez, Natalia Dicenta ... see more see more... , Oriana Bonet , Manu Fullola , Lola Marcelli , Alistair Freeland , Tete Delgado , Lola Marceli

Fantastic Factory presents another spooky Spanish horror tale with The Nun, a pseudo-slasher ghost story that finds an evil water-nymph nun seeking vengeance against her murderers from years before. B... read more read more...efore her disappearance, Sister Úrsula was highly feared in her boarding school. Often tormenting her students with her own brand of extreme religious zealotry, this nightmarish nun was deathly strict with her code of ethics. When one of her 15-year-old pupils is found to be pregnant, the nun forces her into a dangerous spiritual cleansing that ends in tragedy when the girl's five classmates break up the torture session and inadvertently kill Úrsula in the process. Upon the reopening of the school almost 20 years later, two of the group's survivors end up dead, which forces the rest of the old friends to face their own demons over what happened that fateful night. With the help of the now-teenaged daughter of the original student, the group confronts the very thing that haunts their dreams and forever links them together in hushed silence. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 45 min.

Directed by: Luis De La Madrid

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DVD Release Date: April 25, 2006

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  • ScoopOnline
    December 9, 2009
    ScoopOnline
    Yeah have to agree with a friend. It was like I know what you did 18 Summer ago. lol.
    But I must say it has a surprising end. Dont regret to have seen it once, but easily forgetable.
  • 366weirdmovies
    August 6, 2008
    366weirdmovies
    The aquatic (!) spirit of a dead nun returns to haunt and kill her now middle aged former students and the photogenic teens investigating the slayings. Well made and plotted, but unfortunately it's none too scary rather than nun-too-scary.
  • fb100002023516744
    August 21, 2011
    fb100002023516744
    You know, when you hear about a movie called "The Nun" about a killer nun's spirit that can only be summoned by water with a tagline saying "Not all water is holy" and crawls out of the toilets to kill you and copies a scene from The Twilight Zone's "Nightmare at 20,000 feet," yo... read moreu'd think it would be a pretty horrible movie. But it was suprisingly descent for it's genre, an I had a good time watching the film.
  • John2223
    August 6, 2008
    John2223
    A movie that has some slick visuals, nice sound effect but a terrible script as well as the characters and situations that your audience can't connect with, then you've still got a bad movie.
  • xterminal
    June 10, 2011
    xterminal
    The Nun (Luis de la Madrid, 2005)

    This is definitely a case of the unstoppable cannonball meeting the immovable post. Brian Yuzna, who produced this stinker, has been incapable of making a decent film in just about forever; Jaume Balaguero, its screenwriter, has been in... read morecapable of making a bad one. You wouldn't think the two could mix. But both had suddenly hit an anomaly in the recent past before getting together for this film; Yuzna directed Faust (viz. elsewhere this ish), arguably the best film of his career. Balaguero was just coming off Darkness, by far his worst. And somewhere in the middle, the two met. Neither took the directorial reins, for some reason; Yuzna tabbed Luis de la Madrid, the editor who worked on both those films (as well as a number of other, much better, films, such as Balaguero's first feature, The Nameless, and Brad Anderson's second, El Maquinista), to direct. De la Madrid had never done so before. It is telling, even if you haven't seen this particularly crappy non-horror flick, that he never has again, either. Not only that: it is the only feature-length script to date that Balaguero has produced and then not directed himself. Telling, indeed.

    We begin in a Spanish girls' school, eighteen years ago. The evil Sister Ursula (Fausto 5.0's Cristina Piaget), determined to rid the world of sin, keeps an iron fist over her charges until she is mysteriously killed. Fast-forward to the present, and Eve (Icelandic actress Anita Briem, recently in Journey to the Center of the Earth), the daughter of one of those girls, is headed back to the school with a number of her own school friends for a reunion of Sister Ursula's last class. Or so things begin, anyway. Its members begin dying mysteriously, and pretty soon the evidence points to the spirit of Sister Ursula having risen from her grave to get revenge on the students who were (I don't think this is a spoiler, since it's so cliché in horror films like this) complicit in her death.

    Why Balaguero allowed this script to be taken out of his hands remains beyond my ken. I can't imagine he was shaken by the reception of Darkness; while it was a critical failure (4% at Rotten Tomatoes, and if you look through the thirty-four awards Balaguero has been nominated for to date, you will be hard-pressed to find its name [it IS there, once]), it made back its budget three times over, and that's any film studio's definition of success. Be that as it may, that's what happened, and this was the result. While it's got the odd good point (most of which have to do with Anita Briem, who's supermodel-gorgeous and can act better than the rest of this cast put together), overall it's even more of a mess than Darkness was. Not scary, predictable, with a plot twist at the end that opens holes big enough to drive the entire cast and crew through (as well as the catering tables). If you miss this one, don't lose any sleep over it; stick with the movies Balaguero directed from his own scripts, instead. * 1/2
  • DemureArt
    October 23, 2009
    DemureArt
    While the movie had some nice visual affects, the overall plot was completely nonsensical. The premise of the film was about a Nun who was supposed to be sadistic and abusive towards a group of young girls in a Boarding school. The Nun disappears and years later, the women are ha... read moreunted by her and one by one, they end up dead. The problem is that the Nun didn't come off as sadistic and abusive as the writer/directer intended. They failed to show just how evil and crazy this Nun was and offered a trite and contrived motivation behind the Nun's behavior. It just didn't deliver.
  • missbarbieinpink
    September 26, 2009
    missbarbieinpink
    My husband and I were watching this together tonight, because nothing was on tv. After all these questions started happening. I desided to make a list of all the inconsistencies. So, eat your heart out....

    1st, The accents were horrible. Some points in the movie, I was confuse... read mored on who the real "Spanish" decents were. Even noticed the Black hair friend of Eve, was using a "French" accent. And the Priest that she met in "Spain" didn't even have one! Some points in the movie I noticed that it rubbed off of Eve.

    2nd Woman with the messed up leg, was actually balancing with her bad leg while she was clipping her toe nails on the bath tub. Not to forget to mention they didn't even show her death! What a rip off. And how in the world did water end up in her hallway when she was in the bathroom?

    3rd The funniest Quote from the movie is when the blond school kid, Eves gf's bf, said "What is this I know what you did 18 summers ago?" LOL We laughed so hard! Cheese. :-D

    4th Why was the oven turned on, when they could barely keep the lights on in that abandoned school house? Not to mention she didn't even run when she saw it on fire. Instead she looked there dumbly and let the Nun push her in.

    5th When Susan is swimming in the flooded room, and her friend is running up stairs to turn the power off, so they wouldn't be electricuted by the light: How the the water and room still lit up?

    6th They all agreed that the Nun was only allowed to kill those who killed her. Why was she allowed to kill the priest?

    7th Eve ends up being the actual killer, and there's no possible way she could have been. My points being:
    --Eve couldn't have messed up the elevator when chick got her arms cut off.
    --She couldn't kill the priest when he was impaled by the water the Nun did.
    --It didn't even show the crippled womans death!

    I am not a critical person. So Here's the possitives about this flick
    ---Awesome special effects with the water, and the under water filming! The actual deaths (not counting cripples death) were very graphic and shocking. It was a great surprise seeing the priest get killed. Didn't see that comming.

    If I had to watch this movie again, I wouldn't.
  • tyb323
    August 16, 2009
    tyb323
    So horrible that it was funny
    evil nun was evil because she was a religious nun and thought some girl was impure for having extramarital sex so she hosed the girl down. OH NOES! DROWN THE EVIL NUN FOR BEING HARSH AND THEN SAY SHE WAS EVIL!
  • MichelleasaurusRex
    August 8, 2008
    MichelleasaurusRex
    Scary ass nun. Changes the way I look at nuns forever. Pretty stupid how the nun was washing that girl because the girl was pregnant, trying to wash the pregnant out of her. I saw it on FEARnet. Wasn't a bad movie.
  • prettypersuasion
    October 29, 2007
    prettypersuasion
    Six women are being stalked, haunted, and killed by a the ghost of an evil nun that used to strictly educate them through torment. The nun, this alleged "evil" nun, the nun that this movie is named after, is barely in the movie...nor are we ever really informed about her life or ... read morethe reasoning behind her evil essence, which is a total let down for me because I love nunsploitation flicks. I can see why people might say this movie sucks, but the way the nun is portrayed as a ghost is totally original and creative, which is something that hollywood lacks these days when creating their villains. She floats down hallways, robe rippling like she's underwater, dripping down the ceiling and attacking the bitches by diving right into and through their bodies, splashing against the walls--followed by a ridiculous plot-twist. Call this movie for the brainless but I found it entertaining nonetheless.

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