--- title: 'Killer Nun (1979)' type: 'film' director: 'Giulio Berruti' released: '1979-01-01' runtime_minutes: 90 genres: - 'Horror' countries: - 'Italy' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/killer-nun-1979' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078343/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Killer Nun (1979) 1979 · 90 min · Horror · Italy Original title: Suor Omicidi ## Synopsis Killer Nun is a 1979 Italian nunsploitation horror film directed and co-written by Giulio Berruti, co-written by Alberto Tarallo, and starring Anita Ekberg, Joe Dallesandro, Lou Castel, and Alida Valli. Its plot follows a nun who, after recovering from brain surgery, grows increasingly paranoid that her health is again declining; she begins indulging in opioids from the hospital in which she works, and spirals into addiction and madness with violent consequences. The film is loosely based on the true story of Cécile Bombeek, a middle-aged nun who committed a series of murders in a geriatric hospital in Wetteren, Belgium in 1977. ## Credits - **Director:** [Giulio Berruti](https://cinepixo.com/people/giulio-berruti) - **Screenplay:** [Giulio Berruti](https://cinepixo.com/people/giulio-berruti) - **Original Music Composer:** [Alessandro Alessandroni](https://cinepixo.com/people/alessandro-alessandroni) - **Producer:** [Steve Morelli](https://cinepixo.com/people/steve-morelli) ## Cast - [Alida Valli](https://cinepixo.com/people/alida-valli) - [Massimo Serato](https://cinepixo.com/people/massimo-serato) - [Laura Nucci](https://cinepixo.com/people/laura-nucci) - [Anita Ekberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/anita-ekberg) - [Nerina Montagnani](https://cinepixo.com/people/nerina-montagnani) - [Carolyn De Fonseca](https://cinepixo.com/people/carolyn-de-fonseca) - [Lou Castel](https://cinepixo.com/people/lou-castel) - [Joe Dallesandro](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-dallesandro) - [Daniele Dublino](https://cinepixo.com/people/daniele-dublino) - [Franco Caracciolo](https://cinepixo.com/people/franco-caracciolo) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/killer-nun-1979 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1767935); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.