The Bad Nun

Teenager Aesha is sent from Northern England to a remote bed and breakfast in Kent by her mother for some "head space" but at night a persistent nun keeps knocking on the front door, asking to be let in. The DVD cover has a demonic looking nun standing next to a pair of inverted crucifixes but if you are hoping to see Black Masses and Satanic orgies then you are going to be very disappointed, this is a British slasher movie. And a bottom of the barrel one at that too! I would be polite by calling the acting amateur as most of it is awful, though I did quite like Becca Hirani as leader character Aesha. The script is terrible, there are several scenes in which Aesha talks to the mysterious nun through the front door and these feel like they go on forever, painfully bad to watch. The identity of the killer nun is so obvious and is one of the least convincing maniacs that I have ever seen on film. The continuity is laughably bad. Do not expect a high body count though the kills are fairly nasty. Zero sex or nudity. The creepy musical score is relentless, in some scenes it works, in others it is very overdone. And to top it off the film annoyingly ends with an inconclusive ending. The film itself is rated BBFC 15 but the DVD is 18, this must be due to the trailer for Redcon 1 which features a lot of zombie violence. Looks like Bad Nun aka The Satanic Nun spawned a few sequels, despite my low opinion of this film I will certainly try to track these down for my viewing "pleasure".

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!

Made me laugh more than many comedy films!! 3/10 for the laughs

I fully agree with the other poster on here that this movie is just plain horrendous and ridiculous. Avoid it like the plague!

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.