Cast overview: | |||
Florinda Bolkan | ... | Sister Cristina | |
Ray Lovelock | ... | Aldo | |
Flavio Andreini | ... | Walter | |
Sherry Buchanan | ... | Elisa | |
Stefano Cedrati | ... | Nino | |
Laura Tanziani | ... | Lucia | |
Laura Trotter | ... | Claudia | |
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Karina Verlier | ... | Titti (as Karine Velier) |
Luisa Maneri | ... | Matilde (as Annalisa Pesce) |
Sister Cristina (Florinda Bolkan) plays a nun who takes the teenage girls in her care to a remote house where they rehearse A Midsummer Night's Dream. Three thugs show up, brutally raping and terrorizing the girls, killing one by raping her with a cane, until Bolkan renounces her teachings and seeks bloody revenge. Written by Ørnås
A trio of obdurate bank-robbers who are barely evading the authorities hole up in an incommunicado beach house where several girls from a parochial school are having a field trip with their drama teacher. Instantaneously, the girls are sucked into a living nightmare of sexual assault, inexorable degradation, torture, and death. At one especially disturbing point in the course of events, one of the brutes becomes seriously injured, and callously demands to be cared for by the very people he has been so cruelly tormenting.
This film is often compared to LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, though despite axiomatic similarities in the general mien, little else between the two films is consonant. LA SETTIMA DONNA is an emotionally exhausting steamroller of tribulation, pathos, and senseless inhumanities...highly unpleasant, but effective, like a hard punch to the gut.
6.5/10