Most of the nuns in this movie get rowdy at some point or another, whether is it with fellow nuns or the male protagonist, and the mother superior is in what seems like a steady relationship with the priest of the monastery. In the 1974 film Seijû gakuen aka School of the Holy Beast, the 'convent' is run much like a school for wayward girls, including the typical girl-on-girl catfight.

The continually lauded 1966 version with Anna Karina was the French answer to Audrey Hepburn in The Nun’s Story; the 2013 version (also French) was pure festival bait with a subtle color palette and Isabelle Huppert. Cherubic teenage noblewoman Carmela is the nun in question, locked in the convent for fooling around with a peasant boy and refusing to marry her betrothed.But Paolella’s direction doesn’t discriminate, dipping into the local men’s bathhouse where Sister Elizabeth’s half-naked lover Diego proselytizes about how he enjoys women, although “their constant desire to catch the male is so transparent in every gesture that sometimes they’re boring.

The two girls put a dead nun (who died from unrelated causes) in the girl's bed and torched the place to cover their escape.As Catherine, Nastassja Kinski is creepy when she wants to be, albeit uncomfortably young for the role. Through protagonist Maya Takigawa, Suzuki expresses total distaste for organized religion’s hypocrisy and perversion; early on, she refers to the convent as “a place where women stop being women. Protagonist Elizabeth discovers this for herself when she pays a visit, having been instructed by her late father to maintain his regular payments to the nuns but curious to know how exactly they’re spending it.