Freaky events at a convent prompt a priest to investigate further.

I knew The Other Hell would be a great film from an early scene that involved a demented nun telling an accomplice that a certain part of a woman’s anatomy is the ‘door to evil…the labyrinth that leads to Hell. The Devil’s tools!’ whilst a naked woman’s body is on a slab in front of them, ready for embalming. The rest of the scene I can’t disclose because 1. I don’t want to go against any Community Guidelines, and 2. I don’t want to ruin any surprises for you, fellow fans of deranged cinema. BTW, The Other Hell is on YouTube if you want to check out the depravity.

The film is directed by Bruno Mattei using a pseudonym, and he really delivers the goods. People bursting into flames, nuns going into trances and then murderous rages, zombie nuns, stigmata, nuns belching out blood…and that’s just what I’m allowed to talk about. This movie is so insane that at one point I thought to myself, ‘This is everything I’d want from a nunsploitation movie!’

The screenplay was written by Claudio Fragasso, who would go on to write Troll 2, so you know it’s going to be fantastic cult fare.

I love the fact that the filmmakers wanted Goblin to do the score, but the price the group asked was too high, so they just stole Goblin music from two other scores they had composed for two different films.

The Other Hell has been released on Blu-ray by the ever-excellent Severin, who said that they found the print they used behind a false wall in a Bologna nunnery (!)

The Other Hell is my new favourite religious film.

4 out of 5 stars