Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Don't listen to the negative reviews

Absolutely brilliant

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Get ready for a movie completely overflowing with blasphemy shot in the Convento di Santa Priscilla in Rome (once owned by FIAT but now owned by the Secret Service). Then again, the print that Severin used for the blu-ray was found behind a false wall in a Bologna nunnery! I sum up this movie with these three words: Not f'ing around. Written by Claudio Fragasso (Rats: The Night of Terror) and directed by Bruno Mattei (The Seven Magnificent Gladiators, Robowar), this is a pull no punches nunsploitation shockfest. You think mother! was bad? Then you are by no means ready for this one. A baby gets boiled alive and that's the very least of the shocks in store. And if you're Catholic, well, get ready to go to confession.Boasting a Goblin score stolen from Beyond the Darkness, you'll get a Mother Superior who rants and raves while locked in the basement, a gardener who is up to no good, possessions, a nun bragging about having sex with the Devil and so much more. And why are dolls hanging from the ceiling of a convent? Who knows!Oh yeah - between priests being set on fire and a nun's severed head in the sacristy, this movie is every nightmare you had in CCD class. When Mother Vincenza yells, "The genitals are the door to evil! The vagina, the uterus, the womb; the labyrinth that leads to hell; the devil's tools!" you'll either cheer or recoil in terror, depending on whether or not you ever sat through a five hour Good Friday mass.Can the young scientific priest (Carlo De Mejo, City of the Living Dead, The House by the Cemetery) stop all of the screaming nuns and bring the fear of God back to this convent? Or will an evil cat bring his doom?Seriously. This movie tested even my resolve of how far is too far. Which is just another way to tell you that I loved it.

In the oppressive rooms of a run down convent, nuns are starting to be murdered in gruesome fashion. A progressive-thinking young priest, Father Valerio (Carlo De Mejo, "The House by the Cemetery"), is called in to investigate the matter, and he's often incensed by what he sees. He ends up butting heads with the forbidding nun in charge, Mother Vincenza (Franca Stoppi, "Beyond the Darkness")."The Other Hell" is a decent combination of Italian "Nunsploitation" and horror, but it is admittedly not that eventful, as others have pointed out. This viewer could see how some people would be bored, but he found it basically agreeable, if not as out-and-out trashy as it could have been. It does have some effectively grim and gritty atmosphere, as well as some scenes of gore. Assorted viewers may well bemoan the dearth of female nudity. The blasphemy on display, courtesy co- writers / co-directors Bruno Mattei ("Rats: Night of Terror") and Claudio Fragasso ("Troll 2"), is good for some entertainment. The music is liberally "borrowed" from top Italian rock band Goblin, and it does help to keep things watchable.The performances are quite theatrical, which does suit the material. De Mejo and Stoppi are amusing adversaries. Franco Garofalo ("Hell of the Living Dead") is a highlight as he mugs his way through the role of Boris the groundskeeper. Andrea Aureli is good as a priest who also attempts to lend some assistance."The Other Hell" is not a must-see, but newcomers to this variety of trash may still want to give it a look.Six out of 10.

Those looking for the typical sex and nudity expected in a nunsploitation film need to look elsewhere. This one is pure horror, with a genital removal starting the blood-fest.The evil Mother Vincenza (Franca Stoppi) provides the best performance despite the outrageous lines given to her.Father Valerio (Carlo De Mejo) is called in to investigate several murders that are reportedly the work of Satan. One suspects, along with the good father, that there is a psychopath lose in the convent. The answer may lie in the middle of both explanations.Exciting pieces with long periods of nothing in between. For serious fans of Italian horror, it will be a treat, but for others, it may not be so good.Great music throughout.

Other Hell, The (1980) 1/2 (out of 4) Nunsploitation flick from Italy is one of the worst I've seen and it's pretty hard not to make killing nuns entertaining. Hack master Bruno Mattai directed this film about a priest who comes to a convent to investigate some strange deaths to nuns. Is it the work of a serial killer or Satan himself? Who gives a damn, really? This film is incredibly dull and lifeless without a single thing going for it. Mattai seemed to forget that films like this, if they're going to be dull, need some nudity to keep it going but we get none. There's not really any gore or violence outside an opening scene where a nun has her vagina removed because it's the doorway to Hell.