Trash version of the story of the nun of Monza, featuring some truly absurd scenes, hilarious dialogue and Gothic horror influences. This is much more light and strangely funny compared to much more dramatic 1969 version of the same theme. Entertaining and funny but trash movie still. 4/10.

Groan, this is the second Bruno Matti nunxploitation film I've seen this week. I could simply copy and paste my review of Matti's 'The Other Hell' and it would still be an accurate review.

It only reinforces how nunxploitation is by far the laziest of the exploitation sub genres. And that's saying something! Rent some nun costumes, use a church as your set, use classical public domain music, have some orgies of both blood and sex, cut print done in one take.

At least 'The Other Hell' had a coherent plot. Silly and boring but there was a beginning, middle and end. 'The True Story of the Nun of Monza' is impossible to follow! And I really did try. It's just one nun orgy after another and another. While this is typical of a nunxploitation film, this time Matti seems to be going for the record. There's a nun orgy every 30 seconds! The only reasons for the breaks in between is for them to find another decomposing dead body. Who are these dead characters? How did they die? Are they being murdered? If the film doesn't know or care why should the audience? Back to the nun orgies! Seriously! There's no explanation for these dead body scenes!

I honestly cannot describe the plot because there is NONE!

Note how all the positive reviews praise this as a dark comedy. If nun orgies are your thing there are far more entertaining nunxploitation films to choose from.

The positive reviews also praise this a not being one of Bruno Matti's worse films. That's like saying a root canal is more fun than castration.

This is one to skip even if you're going through Bruno Matti's entire filmography. Let's not and say we did.

I love nunsploitation films. They are better than Westerns. What I love is the balance between literary distinction, and 1970s nudity. Where as last week's viewing of Extramuros was good on the former but poor on the latter, I thought this one suffered the other way. It starts off oddly with some horse porn. I have previously watched The Nun of Monza, which was quite a good film, but not nunsploitation. However that did not help me understand much what was going on in this film. It was in Italian with no subtitles, but I am not sure that was the reason. It was filmed in 1980, so possibly the subgenre was getting a little tired. Don't know really, but it is quite a long way down my list. Still valid though.