"Where exploitation films occupy the nether regions of cinema's margins, taking advantage of tawdry trends to create cheap, luridly saleable sensationalism, nunsploitation is a niche within that niche, realising, or at least imagining, the behaviours of Christ's brides within their closed communities.
The subgenre plays on viewers' suspicions that holy exclusivity may be a cloak for altogether worldlier drives, while appealing to a voyeuristic sense of curiosity, an iconoclastic rebelliousness, and of course a fetish for women in – and then out of – uniform.
At the same time, its cloistered setting – a hermetically sealed, sometimes Sadean world with its own coded conduct and oppressive rules – readily serves as an allegorical microcosm for the broader pretensions and power structures of society at large."
