School of the Holy Beast (1974)

 A classic exploitation movie from 1974 that shows Norifumi Suzuki's lush visual style at its peak. A young woman joins a convent where sexual abstinence is required and straying from the path of god is severely punished. Features lots of bare breasts and several whipping scenes. The general mood is pretty similar to that of the Female Convict: Scorpion and Zero Woman series. Japan's most notorious Nun-Exploitation film: School Of The Holy Beast (Sei Juu Gakuen) directed by sexploitation guru, Norifumi Suzuki, plunges into a maelstrom of hidden torture, secret masochistic desires, and blasphemous rites as Yumi Takigawa takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. When she finds out - with the help of a lecherous archbishops, a lesbian mother superior and a line-up of fellow nuns ready to whip her (in the films most deliriously over the top scene)with a gauntlet of rose-thorns - hell is loose. Beautifully shot, a shocking unforgetable Masterpiece by the director of "Beautiful Girl Hunter" - Dario Argento meets the Marquis de Sade