'Nude Nuns With Big Guns' is the best film title that Lloyd Kaufman never came up with, and sells director Joseph Guzman's movie in true exploitation style (although a more accurate title would be 'Ugly Nude Nuns, A Couple Of Whom Have Fairly Big Guns', but which is obviously less appealing and doesn't trip off the tongue quite so easily).
'Nude Nuns' is, if you hadn't already guessed, yet another faux grind-house pic in the tradition of QT's 'Death Proof', Robert Rodriguez's 'Machete', the Rutger Hauer flick 'Hobo With a Shotgun', and Guzman's own 'Run! Bitch Run!', loving tributes that attempt to emulate the gritty style and outrageous content of sleazy low-budget cult classics from the politically-incorrect 70s and early 80s.
Unfortunately, as far as I am concerned, very few of these homages have been completely successful at recreating that authentic grind-house experience, the films too slick or too deliberate in their execution to be wholly convincing; sadly Nude Nuns is no exception, although I have to admire Guzman for such a bold attempt.
Being a genuine low-budget production, this is able to go places that many larger productions wouldn't dare, offering far more in terms of sleaze than any of QT's films (while mercilessly mocking the Catholic church), with an emphasis on rape that is quite staggering; however, despite this undeniably gutsy approach, the film still feels too self-consciously cool to be totally satisfying, the gimmicky editing being particularly grating (does EVERY character really need to be introduced with a freeze frame and caption?).
Of course, any film with (ugly) topless nuns aplenty, drug dealing priests, skeezy strippers with fake tits, rampant lesbianism, a rapist called 'Kick Stand' (on account of his big tool), and plenty of violence (including that exploitation classic—the severed penis!) is worth a watch in my book—just don't expect it to be as awesome as the title suggests.
'Nude Nuns' is, if you hadn't already guessed, yet another faux grind-house pic in the tradition of QT's 'Death Proof', Robert Rodriguez's 'Machete', the Rutger Hauer flick 'Hobo With a Shotgun', and Guzman's own 'Run! Bitch Run!', loving tributes that attempt to emulate the gritty style and outrageous content of sleazy low-budget cult classics from the politically-incorrect 70s and early 80s.
Unfortunately, as far as I am concerned, very few of these homages have been completely successful at recreating that authentic grind-house experience, the films too slick or too deliberate in their execution to be wholly convincing; sadly Nude Nuns is no exception, although I have to admire Guzman for such a bold attempt.
Being a genuine low-budget production, this is able to go places that many larger productions wouldn't dare, offering far more in terms of sleaze than any of QT's films (while mercilessly mocking the Catholic church), with an emphasis on rape that is quite staggering; however, despite this undeniably gutsy approach, the film still feels too self-consciously cool to be totally satisfying, the gimmicky editing being particularly grating (does EVERY character really need to be introduced with a freeze frame and caption?).
Of course, any film with (ugly) topless nuns aplenty, drug dealing priests, skeezy strippers with fake tits, rampant lesbianism, a rapist called 'Kick Stand' (on account of his big tool), and plenty of violence (including that exploitation classic—the severed penis!) is worth a watch in my book—just don't expect it to be as awesome as the title suggests.