10 Types Of Movies You Don't See Any More

10. Nunsploitation

A sub-genre of sexploitation films, which themselves serve mainly as a vehicle for softcore porn, Nunsploitation ups the ante by dressing its females as Nuns (high heels are optional).

The basic premise of these pictures usually involves a young woman (unfailingly played by nude models such as Laura Gemser) who offends male authority figures and, for her penance, is subjected to sadistic punishments after being stripped naked, thrown in a cell and hit by a water cannon. This only strengthens her resolve, of course, and she usually seeks solace in the arms of a fellow inmate, whether male or female.

Nunsploitation is a close cousin of that other sexploitation favourite, the Women In Prison movie, and its popularity during the golden age of exploitation cinema ushered in such classic (it says here) pictures as Killer Nun and Ken Russell’s The Devils.