Sister Maria (Cecilia Pezet) is the epitomy of virtue ... yet she is
one day visited by a naked stranger, the devil (Enrique Rocha), who offers
her a symbolic apple. In shock, she runs off, but it seems whereever she
goes the devil will appear to her. To repent for her sinful thoughts,
sister Maria wears a belt of thorns, & she whips herself, but
eventually, she is tricked when the devil comes to her in shape of sister
Clemencia, who confesses her love to Maria & strips her naked ... then
turns into the devil & makes passionate love to her, & Maria
resists only at first. Afterwards, the wounds from her belt of thorns
& her whipping have miraculously disappeared, but she feels a
devillish, naughty streak in her: First she puts every effort into
seducing farmers boy Marcello - who runs off in terror - then tries to
seduce another nun, & when she refuses her, plunges a knife in her
shoulder, then she helps yet another nun commit suicide ... then it's back
to Marcello, whom she visits in his hut, trying to rape him, but when he
still refuses, she cold bloodedly stabs him, then sets his hut on fire,
burning both him & his mother ... It's only when Maria comes back to
the convent, that her real, virtual persona, & her conscience, set in
again ... but it might be too late already, because in the struggle for
his innocence & ultimately his life, Marcello has torn her necklace
from her neck, which would ultimately betray her ... so what else is there
to do but try to retrieve it from dead AMrcello's hand ? But of course,
when doing so, Maria is caught by the Mother Superior, & now the only
way out is to kill her too, & hide her in the convent's own crypt To
repent for her sins, Sister Maria retreats to the mountains, to live the
life of a hermit, but even there, the devil finds her. When she renounces
him, he shows her her future, being brutally tortured by the inquisition
(who do all their best stuff including gouging out eyes) before being
executed a witch. On the other hand, if she sells him her soul, she will
become the next Mother Superior ... at first, Maria rejects him, but as
the inquisition closes in, she gives in to his demands ... & promptly
becomes Mother Superior. But when she re-enters her convent, she finds
it to have become a place of sin, with nuns indulging in sex &
gluttony, & she realizes she has sold much more than only her soul ...
Plus she is promptly stabbed by the nuns she has sold ... ... but it was
only a dream, & in reality, Sister Maria has died (as much is true) an
angel from the Black Plague. Made in the wake of Ken Russell's
rather highbrow The Devils, this is a cheap, cheesy & charming
nunsploitation film, full of naughty naked nuns (some of them played by
real life prostitutes), pulp symbolism, some horror motives, & the
brutality of the inquisition thrown in, just for good measure. You just
have to love (or hate) it for its in-your-face approach to naughty nuns´,
but of course it's not for the easily offended, but then again, it was
never intended for them in the first place, was it ?
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