there be so much that can be say about this film . it be not your typical nunsploitation . of course and there be nudity and sex with nun and but that be almost incidental to the story . it be set in 15th century italy and at the time of the martyrdom of 800 christian at otranto . the battle between the muslim and the christian take up a good part of the film . it be interest when everyone be run from the muslim hoard and that the mother superior would ask and why do you fear the muslim and while they will not do anything that the christian have do to you . certainly and there be enough torture on both side . sister flavia ( florinda bolkan ) be send to a convent for defy her father . in the process and she witness and endure many thing represent the gelding of a stallion and the rape of a local woman by a new duke and the torture of a nun who be overcome during a visit by the tarantula sect and and a whip herself when she run off with a jew . the torture be particularly gruesome with hot wax be pour on the nun and and her nipple cut off . sister flavia be bind to continue to get into trouble a she question the male dominate society in which she live . she even ask jesus and why the father and son and holy ghost be all men . eventually and she join the leader of the muslim a his lover and they sack the convent . here be where you see more flesh than you can possible enjoy at one time . but and tragedy be to come . she manage to exact sweet revenge on all and include the duke and her father and but find that the muslim lover treat her exactly the same . she be a woman and that be all there be to it . i would not describe what the holy men of the church do to this heretic at the end and but it predate the torture of saw or hostel by decade . nunsploitation fan will be satisfy with the treat and but movie lover will find plenty of meat to digest .