The Convent (2000)

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Release Date: Jan 20, 2000 Wide

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Adrienne Barbeau stars in this campy horror flick about dead nuns and the undead. The film opens with the legendary massacre at the St. Francis Boarding School for Girls. One night in 1960, a disgruntled former student saunters into the school chapel and kills a bunch of nuns and a priest with a shotgun. The deranged student, young Christine (Oakley Stevenson), then douses the mother superior with gasoline and sets her on fire with the flick of a lit cigarette. Forty years later, the shuttered

R, 1 hr. 24 min.

Horror

Directed By: Mike Mendez

In Theaters: Jan 20, 2000 Wide

On DVD: Dec 11, 2001

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Adrienne Barbeau
Adult Christine
Coolio
Officer Starkey
David Gunn
Saul
Bill Moseley
Officer Ray
Joanna Canton
Megahn Perry
Richard Trapp

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Everything is played way over-the-top, using the traditional trappings of a teen horror flick, but using them so much they become satirical.

March 16, 2004 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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This is one of the most terrible, cheesy and exploitative movies I have ever seen. I think I mistook it for something else when I rented it. It's about vampire-zombie things - that I guess are blacklight responsive- who eat people who visit them. And some Slappy the Squirrel-esquewoman who has to rescue a bunch of

June 24, 2008

Emily Armstrong

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One of my favourite STV movies of the 90s. I think this one could have easily done well had it been released in theaters. I've heard it described as a party movie and I'd be inclined to agree. Like Evil Dead mixed with Night of the Creeps this is a really fun and funny horror film (and this is coming from a guy who hates a lot of horror comedies).

January 30, 2007