Load of rubbish!!

Let's be realistic.

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Girls in boarding school take revenge on a nasty nun Sister Ursula. Years later, a young woman and her friends must stop the nun's revengeful spirit.Director Luis De La Madrid offers some genuine creepy visuals that will stay with you in this well shot horror, but the fresh faced cast are pretty forgettable. Some dodgy dubbing aside possibly to mask some broad accents both visual and sound effects enhance what could have been simply mediocre affair. Unlike Brian Yuzna's Fantastic Factory Rottweiler or Arachnid this has less B film feel.There's a small amount of gore, a decapitation, amputation arms and the like. In retrospect the CGI was used effectually and the filmed in water effect (from Oscar-winning David Martí and Montse Ribé ) which was later refined in 300 (2006) Oracle scene really makes the Nun eerie. Some of the editing is as choppy and clunky as Manu Díez script. Jaume Balagueró's story with its opening idea and concept is strong, even so Díez screenplay seem to lose focus in the second act and this hampers Luis De La Madrid's offering. As Spanish slasher and vengeful ghost sub genre films go this probably assisted in the resurgence of spate of superior European additions to the genre. Overall, La Monja/The Nun is worth taking a look at for Martí and Ribé's early efforts alone.

I am a huge horror fan, particularly Spanish horror. This film had so many possibilities to be good. It's a marvelous idea, a vigilante ghost nun, as most of what has come out of Jaume Balangueró's mind. Both visual and sound effects were also pretty good. But everything was shamefully spoiled by bad direction, awful casting and a painfully bad (exposition, exposition!) script. Too bad. Maybe Balangueró should write and direct himself a remake...Moreover, I don't really understand why this had to be spoken in English by actors who can't really speak English (and when they do, they do it so bad it just makes their performances even more fake). If you look at contemporary Spanish horror films like El Orfanato or Rec, the performances are totally in tune with this type of stylish ghost story - and that is being realistic, being believable as someone like ourselves, like real people, because that is the only way horror achieves it's goal. Unfortunately, everything failed in La Monja.

this movie has joined a plethora of amazingly horrible horror flicks on my shelf.it's so bad that it's good. that being said, when i'm rich and famous my friend and i are so remaking this movie...and i'm so going to be the nun for halloween next year.yeah, this movie is going up there with bones, crazy lips, uzumaki and any other awesomely bad Chinese/Japanese/korean/thai horror flicks i've seen, cheerleading camp, and every other horrible horror movie out there.yay horror films, yay nuns!

I don't usually like to comment on the acting in a movie, because it is the one thing that people who have agenda against a film will go after. In this movie, I will make an exception. The acting in this film are below average all around. I mean halfway into the film, I wonder how the hell did the producer and/or the director gets around casting such an ensemble of people who can't act. Even-though the production value was good, the ill written story just compounded on top of the bad performance of the actors, and there is even a half-hearted attempts to a twist to the ending of the movie, which ends up quite confusing. Is all the Spanish horror films this disappointing?