The Bad Nun

After a fairly promising beginning, the film proper seems at first like a different production. Aesha, a bubbly former tearaway, is well played by Becca Hirani and the story has potential but the pacing leaves a lot to be desired.

A conversation where the villain of the piece politely asks to be let in, and is politely turned down, goes on for an age, lapsing into farce. Perhaps it is meant to, but to constantly revert to a scene that is unnecessary and hardly progresses, saps the interest. It's a shame, because heavily reduced, it might have been quite effective. The villain, when revealed, seems less physically able than the two sprightly girls Aesha and Imogen (Tiffany-Ellen Robinson). They could at least have tried to defend themselves.

The dialogue is marred by many statements beginning with 'sorry'; director/writer Scott Jeffrey might have taken steps to iron out such repetition and improved the end result.

Ultimately, we have a film that almost works, but could have been better. There's a nice eccentric performance from Thomas Mailand as Dan, which helps things along. My score is 6 out of 10.

"The Bad Nun" is an amateurish low-budget film where nothing works: the story and the screenplay are awful, with no development of characters or situations. The performances are forgettable and the dialogs are boring and histrionic many times. The cinematography, lighting, camera work and framing are terrible and amateurish. Better off not wasting your time watching this flick. My vote is three.

Title (Brazil):"O Mistério do Convento" ("The Mystery of the Convent")

The movie is'nt as half as bad as everybody makes it out to be .It had some good bits in it .I kind of figured who the killer was about half way thru the movie though a bit predictable .The directors should have recast the main killer role.He was'nt one bit scary .He looked liked somebodies grandfather ,those 2 girls could have taken him out quite easily.They should have cast Kane Hodder in the role instead or get someone who looks more intimidating for petes sake.As for the lead character ,i just found her annoyingly dumb and was wishing for her to get chopped up by the killer.

90mins of my Saturday night I'll never get back, no storyline, poor performances, predictable and just so so silly that it was actually funny.......AVOID!

Sent off to a remote house, a young woman trying to reform her party-girl attitude tries to fight the boredom and solitude by making friends with the few locals around only to soon be targeted by a strange nun who claims to be saving her from a psycho in the area who forces her to defend herself.

This one ended up being a rather bland overall effort. One of the biggest problems with this one is the rather off-putting and brazenly plodding pace which makes this a really tough film to get through. There's quite a lot of plodding filler to be had here to pad this out to a feature-length effort, ranging from the opening where she messages her friend that's carried on way too long to the early conversations that have no energy and the continuous phone calls to her friend to come to visit which are just plain bland and hold this back from getting going. Later scenes, including the various side characters who are in the woods around the house or just the endless shots of her handing out around the house doing nothing which really gets old and boring. That's not helped at all by the incredibly lame and banal attempts at horror here, which are completely mishandled and undoes a lot of this one. The opening murders are just simple stabbings without much incident behind them as the pathetic stabbing just seems weak, the outright lack of stalking to build-up any kind of suspense to the ambush at her house when it kills off her friend and the arrival of the roommate kills off any kind of atmosphere present with the lack of information given as to how it got inside the house to play the fabled videotape. The outright lack of gore or even a traditional body count here really undoes this one as it never provides the goods when it should be providing some genre hallmarks. The last problem here is the fact that this one is so haphazard and lackadaisical about the central character that a lot of potential fear is missed due to the story. It's way too convenient to have the central character show up at the house which used to be her nunnery, is discovered way too late and is such a lame manner that is no way realistic or plausible, and the only somewhat decent idea here of her talking to the nun through the door is ruined when you realize that's the entire interaction between them to where you can't see each other's face during the scene. With a laughable killer, no real money shots for being a genre picture and a boring presentation due to its pace, this one really is quite awful and worthless overall.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Violence.