The Convent is a relatively humorous and unconditionally low budget B-Movie, that desperately wants to be Evil Dead but misses the mark. It was released in 2000 straight to video, and has gained a small cult following.
The film opens following a flashback to the 1950s, where a teenage girl stylishly shoots happening the Convent, in the best display of enlargement um.. clergyside since, well, ever I guess. If anyone knows of unorthodox film that features merged nuns and priests getting shot, correspondingly I can compare, allow me know. Those of you who might be offended by members of the clergy brute brutally murdered needn't cause problems though, these nuns were possessed by demons, and performed an abortion upon the gun-woman for reasons unknown, suitably they nice of deserved it.
Following the savings account of a bunch of hapless teenagers, including but unquestionably not limited to, a pretentious Goth, a reformed Goth cum Jock, an infuriating cheerleader, and a desperate virgin, the film in reality runs the gamut of horror movie cliches. Our heroes, through a series of meaninglessly bad, even if abundantly predictable, horror movie judgement calls, stop stirring upon the direct from the abovementioned demonic zombie-nuns (You didn't think they'd actually stay dead, did you?). As you can imagine when such topic matter, the movie doesnt resign yourself to itself too seriously and, as such, it is certain that the cliches are mostly intentional. In fact, I found them to be amusing for the first 20 minutes or so, but they speedily become tiresome as the film progresses. The wannabe Satan worshippers, who gave me SNL "Goth Talk" flashbacks, are one of two legitimately funny parts of the film. Coolio makes an amusing cameo proclaim in the second funny moment, but by and large the film strains for laughter, and more often than not, comes off as by coincidence hilarious at inappropriate moments.
Adrienne Barbeau afterward makes a cameo manner as the older, slightly more insane bank account of our teenager nun-killer. Horror fans will no doubt acknowledge her from a number of John Carpenter flicks from the beforehand 80s, including The Fog. sadly she has tiny to attain here, and I think the film could have benefited from exploring her setting more, or at least giving her more screen mature to reach some ass-kicking.
The jaw dropping make-up and gore effects of the equally low budget (but far superior) Evil Dead are nowhere to be found, and in general, the special effects undertaking in this film is quite sloppy. Some of the gore effects are clever, but the zombies look with people following some makeup, ashore under black light, even though having some sort of seizure. The end of the film afterward features perhaps one of the worst attempts at a special effects that I've seen in recent memory.
All in all, this is not a film that I would want to watch again by myself, but it's yet worth seeing, especially gone a action of contacts for bad movie night. After all, how many spastic zombie nuns does one acquire to see in the movies today?
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