nunsploitation

nunsploitation

English

Etymology

nun +‎ -sploitation

Noun

nunsploitation (uncountable)

1. (film) A genre of exploitation film focusing on Christian nuns.
   • 2004, Tamao Nakahara, "Barred Nuns: Italian Nunsploitation Films", in Alternative Europe: Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema Since 1945 (ed. Ernest Mathijs), Wallflower Press (2004), →ISBN, page 126:

     Making nunsploitation films also appealed to producers because, as with peplums and westerns, it was possible to recycle sets and costumes and therefore lower production costs.

   • 2008, "Random top tens: The least convincing nuns ever", The Scotsman, 4 July 2008:

     Perhaps the world's first nunsploitation film, it centres on a morphine-addicted nun recovering from neurosurgery, who is accused of a series of horrific murders.

   • 2013, Ian Olney, Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture, Indiana University Press (2013), →ISBN, page 175:

     In the early 1970s, the nunsploitation film emerged as a widely popular genre, energized by several key cinematic, literary, and historical catalysts: […]