About this episode

The episode discusses the controversial 1979 film Killer Nun and its themes related to Catholic imagery and exploitation cinema.

Bill and Stephanie are joined once again by returning guest Christopher Hoppe, previously heard on the show’s Stigmata episode, to discuss the notorious 1979 nunsploitation film Killer Nun starring Anita Ekberg and Joe Dallesandro. Inspired by a real criminal case, the film follows Sister Gertrude, a morphine dependent nun whose grip on reality steadily collapses inside a convent hospital. The episode covers the strange intersection of Catholic imagery, Italian exploitation cinema, psychological horror, and late 1970s grindhouse filmmaking, along with Anita Ekberg’s career after La Dolce Vita and the larger wave of controversial religious horror films coming out of Italy at the time.

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