Overview: In 1960, a young woman named Christine enters St. Francis Boarding School for Girls and lays waste to the resident nuns.

Four decades later, a group of college students head to the long-abandoned building late one night to tag it with their fraternity letters, little knowing that rumors of the place being haunted are terrifyingly true.

Stir in a couple of disapproving cops and a band of unlikely Satanists, and the table is set for a feast of demonic infestation and bloodshed that only the grown-up Christine (Adrienne Barbeau, THE FOG, SWAMP THING) can possibly stop.

4K Blu-ray Verdict: Telling it like it is, The Convent is straight up one of the best horrors I’ve seen from this era in a long, long time! It’s funny, it’s chock full of fun gore, it even manages to pull in some genuinely scary segments as well. The movie is best described as Evil Dead crossed with Hell Night. A bunch of high school students hole up in an abandoned convent for a pledge night prank then wind up getting attacked by zombie nuns!

Director Mike Mendez obviously watched Sam Raimi’s trilogy repeatedly as a kid, as the same mix of hardcore gore, hilarious one liners and gruesome zombies is here in abundance. Not only are the teen actors great and much more resilient and believable than the average sorority pledge types, but the movie is home to genre veterans Adrienne Barbeau and Bill Mosely (you know, the skinny evil guy from House of 1000 Corpses!) You seriously can’t lose with this movie, trust me.

As you can tell, I’m stark raving mad about The Convent, because it really is the daddy of the current wave of B-Movie horror. It’s had a lot of detractors over the past near 25 years, sure, but how can any sane person not love a movie that throws thousands of guns, comedy Satan worshipers, horny teenagers, zombie nuns, the Antichrist and a very small dog into the mix! Check it out right now, especially as Synapse Films / MVD Have just released this wickedly brilliant new 4K UHD edition onto Blu-ray! [Z.F.]

4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:
Contains one 4K 2160p UHD disc and one 1080p Blu-ray disc
4K remaster of the uncut version supervised and approved by director Mike Mendez
Mastered in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
5.1 stereo surround mix from the original 16-track audio masters
Cast and crew audio commentary
“Lords of Hell” audio commentary featuring Saul and Dickie-Boy
Video tour of both THE CONVENT and KILLERS film locations
Vintage “Making of” featurette
Vintage original studio Electronic Press Kit (EPK)
“It’s Always Something with a Virgin” Liner notes from Corey Danna
Deleted scene
Gore outtakes
Still gallery
Promotional trailers

THE CONVENT (2000) | Official Trailer | HD

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