A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, while presiding over a regime of lesbianism, torture and death. Sister Gertrude is the head nurse/nun in a general hospital, whose increasingly psychotic behavior endangers the staff and patients around her.
Acting
Anita Ekberg's unhinged, sweaty descent into total delirium.
Direction
Berruti's clinical eye makes sleaze feel almost artful.
Production
Authentic Italian hospital locations dripping with fluorescent dread.
Director
Giulio Berruti
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ekberg reportedly took the role for quick cash between Italian TV work, later dismissing it entirely.
Banned in Britain as a 'video nasty' in 1984, it wasn't prosecuted—making it one of the few to escape legal destruction.
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