Satánico pandemonium is a Mexican cult nunsploitation film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares and written from Jorge Barragán, Adolfo Martínez Solares and Gilberto Martínez Solares. It stars Cecilia Pezet, Enrique Rocha and Delia Magaña. Sister Maria lives with the convent for her charity works, but in the secret downs of her fantasies, She becomes agonized by visions from another world, a world who she is permitted to run free. In this world the Satan is her lord, and her acts of violence and blasphemy mount. Sister Maria realizes that she is elected by the... Devil himself to destroy the convent and lead her sister nuns into hell. Only the Devil intuited the dark secrets of her tortured mind… The film was shot in the spring of 1973 in the convent de Tepoztlán, Morelos and Morelia, Michoacán in Mexico. Inspired by Ken Russell’s The Devils and Juan Lopez Moctezuma’s Alucarda, the film is one of the most shocking movies ever shot about the religious life. With a stunning performance from Cecilia Pezet, the film inspired Salma Hayek's character Santanico Pandemonium in From Dusk Till Dawn.
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| Release date: | June 26, 1975 |
| Directed by: | Gilberto Martinez Solares |