Nympha

Nympha: The environment is very secluded and there is a very unsettling mood. It is very cold and empty, ultimately becoming very draining as it is more difficult to watch as it goes along. We watch as someone who only has intentions of doing good for the world is stripped of everything she has including faith and strength. The physical torture is attacked one sense at a time, since it is supposed to be drawn out to bring her closer to God. It has the opposite effect though as the mental torture escalates and turns in to something completely different. The ideas of good and bad are played with a lot, ensuring the viewer that nothing is what it seems to be and evil can be hiding anywhere. The corruption, abuse, and twisted mindset power the film. Tiffany Shepis gives the best performance of her career in Nympha. Shepis doesn't have a ton of dialogs, especially in the scenes where the most is conveyed through her. She depicts so much depth, suffering, and betrayal mostly with facial expressions alone.

NYMPHA stars horror goddess Tiffany Shepis as Sarah, a woman in search of a deeper spiritual life. Unfortunately for her, she winds up with The Sisters Of The New Order, a bizarre sect of nuns with some rather interesting, sadomasochistic ideas about God.

Personally, I adore Ms. Shepis and she's quite good here. Her character is subjected to several hideous ordeals, resulting in bodily mutilation. She outshines the rest of the movie, which is where the trouble lies. It's a pretty cheap production to say the least.

Still, NYMPHA has its moments of ominous, religious insanity, and Ms. Shepis covers a multitude of sins...

I have to admit that I am a fan of the Tiffany Shepis! However, I found this movie to be really really slow.

It does have it's moments though, if you can stay awake long enough to get to them. ;) On the other hand, for a low-budget movie, the production value is really pretty amazing. The digital effects are pretty top notch as well...which is rare. I think I enjoyed seeing some of the behind the scenes stuff more than the movie.

Tiffany is of course great! She has always proved herself to be a great actress, no matter how crappy of a movie she is in. I am always impressed by her performances, even when she is given the silliest of roles. I think the director will move up and do bigger and better things...he just needs to speed things up a little bit, and get to the exciting stuff!

Seriously, not sure what the point of this movie was...

In essence, a gal is sent to a convent in what I assume is Italy, where the nuns proceed to mutilate her so she can become one with God, while she relives the life of some gal named "Nympha" who was the founder of this wacky orders on nuns. Or Something. It really didn't make a lick of sense.

Essentially, they stretched 20 minutes of plot into a two hour movie, but who cares? Even the girl-on-girl action scene was so dully done that you don't care.

And here is another line of text because even though nine lines were enough to convey the mediocrity of this movie, they just want ten.

Weird, a little confusing, but oddly gripping.

The movie is straight to the point, Sarah (Shepis) is entering the nunnery in the opening scene, no back story for her or anything. We're given the impression that this is indeed her vocation, to live a life of solitude as a nun. Within the first few minutes there are spooky things going on, but with no explanation.

Throughout the film we are shown flash backs of two men bickering about a garden, the flash backs get progressively darker and more sinister. As all this is happening, Sarah is being put through her paces, enduring physical and mental torture - this way she'll become closer to god!

For a while the film will keep you confused, but this just makes you want to watch it to the end to find out why, who or what!

A strange film all round, dark and sinister - with a lesbian romp thrown in for no reason whatever - but will keep you watching 5/10