Anita Briem, Belen Blanco

An abusive and merciless nun turns an all-girl boarding school into a sadistic prison. Then she mysteriously disappears. Years later, someone or something begins brutally murdering the alumnae of the ...( read more  read more... )school. The surviving women regroup to face, once again, the ghastly violence of the nun.

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Directed by: Luis De La Madrid

Release Date: January 1, 2005

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DVD Release Date: April 25, 2006

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  • August 6, 2008
    The aquatic (!) spirit of a dead nun returns to haunt and kill her now middle aged former students and the photogenic teens investigating the slayings. Well made and plotted, but unfortunately it's none too scary rather than nun-too-scary.
  • August 6, 2008
    A movie that has some slick visuals, nice sound effect but a terrible script as well as the characters and situations that your audience can't connect with, then you've still got a bad movie.
  • November 1, 2009
    Quote: What is this, "I know what you did 18 summers ago"?
    lol

    The Nun even known as "La Monja" was not bad, entertaining. Sometimes I just enjoy these kind of Movies. As long they entertain me, I dont complain. But I wouldnt give it all my stars. The fu
    ...( read more)nny thing with this Movie is that you will really have the feeling its a "I know what you did last summer ago"? while watchin the whole Movie but it isnt so. You ll be surprised.
  • October 23, 2009
    While the movie had some nice visual affects, the overall plot was completely nonsensical. The premise of the film was about a Nun who was supposed to be sadistic and abusive towards a group of young girls in a Boarding school. The Nun disappears and years later, the women are ha...( read more)unted by her and one by one, they end up dead. The problem is that the Nun didn't come off as sadistic and abusive as the writer/directer intended. They failed to show just how evil and crazy this Nun was and offered a trite and contrived motivation behind the Nun's behavior. It just didn't deliver.
  • October 21, 2009
    All these people who rated this movie 0.5 / 5 may exaggerate a little bit. It wasn't that bad! In Hollywood there has been made worse horror shit than this Spanish movie.
    But I don't like movies with an imaginary killer (with the exception of Stephen King's It) esp...( read more)ecially when the story hasn't got a very original or strong explanation. This "possessed murderer" thing was done before, and much better as well!
  • September 26, 2009
    My husband and I were watching this together tonight, because nothing was on tv. After all these questions started happening. I desided to make a list of all the inconsistencies. So, eat your heart out....

    1st, The accents were horrible. Some points in the movie, I was confuse...( read more)d on who the real "Spanish" decents were. Even noticed the Black hair friend of Eve, was using a "French" accent. And the Priest that she met in "Spain" didn't even have one! Some points in the movie I noticed that it rubbed off of Eve.

    2nd Woman with the messed up leg, was actually balancing with her bad leg while she was clipping her toe nails on the bath tub. Not to forget to mention they didn't even show her death! What a rip off. And how in the world did water end up in her hallway when she was in the bathroom?

    3rd The funniest Quote from the movie is when the blond school kid, Eves gf's bf, said "What is this I know what you did 18 summers ago?" LOL We laughed so hard! Cheese. :-D

    4th Why was the oven turned on, when they could barely keep the lights on in that abandoned school house? Not to mention she didn't even run when she saw it on fire. Instead she looked there dumbly and let the Nun push her in.

    5th When Susan is swimming in the flooded room, and her friend is running up stairs to turn the power off, so they wouldn't be electricuted by the light: How the the water and room still lit up?

    6th They all agreed that the Nun was only allowed to kill those who killed her. Why was she allowed to kill the priest?

    7th Eve ends up being the actual killer, and there's no possible way she could have been. My points being:
    --Eve couldn't have messed up the elevator when chick got her arms cut off.
    --She couldn't kill the priest when he was impaled by the water the Nun did.
    --It didn't even show the crippled womans death!

    I am not a critical person. So Here's the possitives about this flick
    ---Awesome special effects with the water, and the under water filming! The actual deaths (not counting cripples death) were very graphic and shocking. It was a great surprise seeing the priest get killed. Didn't see that comming.

    If I had to watch this movie again, I wouldn't.
  • September 23, 2009
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  • September 14, 2009
    Think you have seen it all... in stupidity? Watch this for an extremelly dumb plot and you'll be quite surprised!

    30/100
  • August 26, 2009
    For the first half hour it's an okay effort, building some suspense and an atmosphere of fear and dread. We even get some nice killings too! Then it goes completely downhill and turns into a whole catalog of "your basic slasher clichés". I must admit that I was quite disappointed...( read more) because the trailer promised so much more. The final thirty minutes consists of some killings and a lot of running around in an abandoned convent. It should have been so much better.
  • August 19, 2009
    They make the weirdest movies these days.

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  • RaptrosDragon
    January 4, 2008
    I liked it. Wasn't all bad, except the ending which I did not understand fully. It was interesting though.
  • Aritosgold
    January 4, 2008
    This is a good one to see odd ending.

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