nunsploitation
English
editEtymology
editFrom nun + -sploitation.
Noun
editnunsploitation (uncountable)
- (film) A genre of exploitation film focusing on Christian nuns.
- 2004, Tamao Nakahara, “Barred Nuns: Italian Nunsploitation Films”, in Ernest Mathijs, editor, Alternative Europe: Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema Since 1945, Wallflower Press, →ISBN, page 126:
- Making nunsploitation films also appealed to producers because, as with peplums and westerns, it was possible to recycle sets and costumes and therefore lower production costs.
- 2008 July 4, “Random top tens: The least convincing nuns ever”, in The Scotsman:
- Perhaps the world's first nunsploitation film, it centres on a morphine-addicted nun recovering from neurosurgery, who is accused of a series of horrific murders.