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The Transgressor

1974 · 91 min

A lurid, slow-burning descent into sadistic rituals and buried sins, watching feels like being trapped in a feverish, sleazy nightmare.

Overview
18 years after the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. As soon as the door closes to the nunnery, the nuns start torturing her. She also has to deal with a lecherous archbishops and a lesbian mother superior.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • revenge
  • obsession
  • betrayal
  • faith
  • trauma
Places
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror7
Humour2
Realism5
Romance3
Tension8
Darkness9
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama, thriller, horror
Directed by
Norifumi Suzuki
Written by
Norifumi Suzuki, Masahiro Kakefuda
Starring
Yumi Takigawa, Emiko Yamauchi, Yayoi Watanabe, Ryōko Ema, Hachiro Tako, Harumi Tajima, Natsuko Yashiro, Marie Antoinette
Music
Masao Yagi
Cinematography
Masao Shimizu
Runtime
91 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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