The Convent (2000)
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
Jan 20, 2000 Wide
Dec 11, 2001
Unapix
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Adrienne Barbeau
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David Gunn
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Bill Moseley
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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.
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