The Convent (2000)

I love this movie so much

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

I love the 'killer nun' horror sub-genre film a lot. Mike Mendez does a brilliant job with this film.(I really liked his 1996 film 'Killers' a lot) I love Megahn Perry in this movie as 'Mo'. She is perfect in this as the jaded 'goth girl' character. Richard Trapp is also really funny as the bumbling lead 'bad boy'. Plus, Joanna Canton is really good as the main/lead character in this movie. She is super believable, and offers the right mix of confidence, and vulnerability to the lead character. Although, I could have lived without some of the weird/goofy dayglow effects (& Coolio !?!?) The movie is still one of my favorite guilty pleasures.

This movie is one of the worst horror movies I have ever seen. From the very first scene, i knew it would be a smash crash. It starts with a seemingly bad girl killing a bunch of nuns in a mission. As it turns out, the people in it were possessed by some random zombies. Well, some years later, some college kids are pulling some pledge prank. Horrible acting goes from pledge to the head jock. Things like the jock yelling at him to do stuff in quite a non-chalonte manner, with pledge over reacting and over-doing the whole "eager to be popular role" What really took the cake with this one is the final battle. Absolutely HORRIBLE special effects with the guns. For example, guns making a noise with no muzzle flash, and vice-versa. this is accompanied by stop-animation zombies (why they move in stop motion is a mystery), cheesy music, and about 40 guns that come out of nowhere.Overall, this movie is crap. Just like so many others you can rent for 50 cents at your nearest low brow movie rental place.

Who would have thought a movie with Coolio in the cast, would get a ten rating from me? Actually Pterodactyl was pretty fun as well, maybe he's making a comeback LOL. Seriously, hopefully not. Anyways onto my review, this film delivers with a solid cast, funny script, and a kick butt heroine performance from Scream Queen Icon Adrienne Barbeau. The scene of young Adrienne shooting up the demon nuns, was priceless. The gore was all there, and got past by the censors being that the demons bleed green slime, way to stick it to the MPAA Mr. Mendez. And by the way the gay satanist, needs to be cast in more genre films, he was hilarious in this. All in all good horror fun, and if you enjoy this, I recommend the Night Of The Demons Trilogy, The Hazing, Soulkeeper, and Dead Hate The Living, which are all fun tongue in cheek horror films like this.

If you like "Dead Alive" and "The Evil Dead", you will enjoy this movie for it's tongue in cheek seriousness and cartoon like violence.The opening sequence of the movie is very hardcore and enjoyable for it's over the top violence. We find ourselves witnessing a young girl in a catholic school girl outfit beating up nuns with a bat, setting them on fire and then shooting them with a shot gun. Don't worry, this is explained on the back of the box. Fast forward 40 years and the ride begins with a group of stereotypical college students that embody all the necessary personas. My favorite character is Goth girl Mo, whose one liners really pack a punch. My only regret about this movie is that she is not the main character and we are left with the wimpy Clorissa as the main character/hero. The wannabe Goths are also really fun to watch and you can tell everyone in the movie knew they were spoofing stereotypes and that everything was meant to be funny, instead of being funny because it sucks. The filming is much better quality than most B-movie films and this is most likely due to the fact that it is a Lions Gate picture. The special effects are sub-grade but like the afore mentioned horror movies it works because it's all so silly. Fun for a group of friends.