3/23/2023 0 Comments Santanico pandemonium movie![]() ![]() ![]() But what a difference a decade makes Satanico Pandemonium was somehow able to get past the church and censors despite showing a nun in full frontal nudity molest a peasant boy - and then kill him. This is not too say spectators will be disappointed, and the filmmakers can hardly be faulted for wanting to avoid the same fate of Luis Bunuel (1900-1983) - who was denounced by the Catholic Church for Viridiana (1961) and whose work was banned in many countries. But, to use football terminology, whereas other religiously subversive filmmakers like Ken Russell and Alejandro Jodorowsky would risk a Hail Mary play to push things as far as they can in their bid to finish the game, Solares plays it safe. Without anything else to add, I can only recommend "Satánico Pandemonium" to anyone who is in the mood for a decent nunsploitation drama, with some utterly random sexual scenes, a couple of nice murders to attach at least a small share of horror to the story, a badly placed background story of racism and of course.lots of sexy and sinful nuns.Billed by Mondo Macabro as "one of the most subversive, violent and shocking films ever made about the religious life," Satanico Pandemonium (1973) by Mexican director Gilberto Martinez Solares (1906-1997), certainly pushes many buttons. However, it is only a matter of persistence to realize that after the big unnecessary moments of silence and boredom, the story starts to develop some of the most astonishing states of affairs, in which we see lesbian soft-core sex between two nuns, a nun taking advantage of a teenage boy and some enjoyable bloody murders inside the convent. It contains no dialogs, no action and for the most part only a nice display of beautiful Mexican landscapes, which is not exactly enough to make it endurable. The first half an hour happens to be ineffective in a way and that would be the only reasons why I felt compelled to turn it off throughout the first minutes and leave it incomplete. There are some noble allocations of gore here and there, but the film mostly focuses on the drama and eroticism. Without offering an actual share of real horror, "Satanico Pandemonium" manages to get the attention, even if it is by some means erroneously advertised. I know some people could take it as a reason to overthrow the director's gracious effort, but I myself, found it too silly not to like it. The whole thing just looks too tacky and the look on the guy's face is simply priceless, so how can anyone not love it?. The special effects in which we see the concept of Satan and temptation itself represented on a laughable guy naked, is by far one of the most hysterical things about this film, along with the outrageously shabby sound effects during these strange apparitions. ![]() The acting is not exactly Academy Award material and it causes unintended laughter. ![]() This is one of those flicks that have too many flaws and no plot whatsoever but it's still impossible not to like them, for some imprecise cause. Even though I have ambiguous estimations about this film on the whole, I can only say for sure that "Satanico Pandemonium" is a must-see nunsploitation Mexican flick for anyone who can be pleased about these kinds of movies for their evident ridiculousness. ![]()
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