Sacred Flesh (2000)

The basic plot of Sacred Flesh centres around Mother Superior Elizabeth who is possessed by devils. The convent’s Abbess is rightfully concerned about her and writes a letter to a local Abbot requesting him to come and check her out and maybe exorcise some demons. That’s about all there is plotwise, the rest of the film’s brief runtime is taken up with the Mother Superior’s nightmarish visions, long monologues on sexual repression within the Catholic church, and the typical lesbo-nun action, flagellation, bondage-crucifixion, etc.

Mother Superior Elizabeth is torn by Catholic guilt, between the repression of lust she is taught, and the sexual abandon she craves, her hallucinogenic revelations involve: on the one hand Mary Magdalene condoning sexual freedom and condemning the Catholic church, and on the other the “Death Nun” extolling the virtues of chastity and threatening hellfire & damnation.

I imagine in Nigel Wingrove’s mind he is probably quite proud of himself for producing yet another artistic, highly controversial piece of blasphemous filth but in reality this chunk of shot-on-video junk is basically low budget soft porn masquerading as highbrow art. Mary’s rambling, awkwardly worded anti-Catholic tirades come off as pseudo-intellectual bullshit, that’s purely there as an attempt to add some class to this low budget tits ‘n’ ass show.