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| Flavia The Heretic |
Today we have another bloody booby-flick starring my favorite movie nun, Florinda Bolkan. However, Flavia The Heretic isn't just another silly way to showcase gratuitous nudity and violence, although the film does contain ample amounts of both, it's a well acted and almost plausible account of a woman's rebellion against oppression and abuse within the cloistered life of the 15th century Catholic Church. Like many exploitation films, it's a bit of feminism shrouded by blood and boobies.
Flavia (Florinda Bolkan) is forced into a convent by her nobleman father to prevent her from succumbing to the temptation of sin. While there she witnesses horrendous abuses against her fellow nuns for even the most trivial of transgressions. She also questions the male dominated hierarchy of the Church and why all three persons of the Holy Trinity are male. Women seem to have no place in Catholic society except to be used and abused by the ruling males. They are meant to be either sexless nuns or placid, demure breeders.
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| "Alright you little freshman bitches, AIR RAID!" |
The Muslims invade Italy and their intrusion into Christian dominated Europe is welcomed by Flavia, and she becomes the lover of the leader of this invading army. The Muslims rape and kill and do what invading armies do and Flavia stands by and watches it all, even as they push her father down a well to his death. She rises in power and influence and when she is almost the equal of her Muslim lover, he abandons her. The invading army leaves Italy and Flavia is left to face the wrath of the Christian people.
Flavia The Heretic is not perfect. It can be slow at times and the battle scenes between the Christians and Muslims look amateurish by today's standards. It does however feature plenty of gorrific torture scenes that make up for the crappy fights. A nun gets hot tar poured on her breasts and belly and then her nipples cut off, a monk gets an unexpected backdoor delivery from a sharpened wooden stake, etc. Also, for some reason a woman crawls into the hanging carcass of a cow. Early in the film, a horse is castrated on screen as well. I guess these may not be selling points to some, but this is an exploitation film after all.Violence Rating/Index: 4 out of 5
Booby Rating/Index: 3.5 or 4ish out of 5 - Click to see the nude scenes.
23 comments:
You know, those really are some damn fine selling points. But it would sell so much easier if they were accompanied with a better overall movie. I mean we're talking over an hour here. My tiny attention span needs more to work with is all.
Weird movie, i wanna watch it :)
I guess this one will be worth watching it, gonna check that out later :)
I actually saw this one, not bad.
sounds like an interesting movie. Sexless nuns you said..... I am hooked.
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i'd tap it
Are they really "sexless" tho? ;)
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A Grindhouse blog, not bad! There's certainly a bit of an appeal there. This movie looks like it might be worth a look, you give some pretty concise reviews.
seems like a good plot, decent booby rating :)
This is another unwatched one in my collection.
Nudity, violence, nuns and a story. Damn.
that actually sounds like a pretty involved plot for a nunsploitation movie.
looks pretty good,i'll watch it tommorow..
boobs!! lol.
horse castration? why?!
This seems rather creepy. I'll definitely check it out.
never heard of it but will check it out
Man, where do you find these movies? I've never heard of most of these and they seem creepy in that old school kind of way.
4.0 boobs + 4.0 gore? count me in! if i could only find those movies...
Well, I was actually down with you until the selling points. From what you described they seem... pointless. I think I will give it a watch and decide for myself.
Bob Barker's influence has gone to far.
haha sick movie
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