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After a rough
life living in sins, Sarah decides to
join a convent where she hopes to get in touch with god.
But what Sarah doesn't know is that there is no god
in this building and it doesn't take long before the
sisters at the convent start to perform horrible
experiments on her, burning her arms, pouring acid
into her eyes, putting scalpels in her ears and more.
All of this cause Sarah to hallucinate and find out
about the story of Ninfa, a young woman who once used
to live in the convent. Is Ninfa the key to all of
this, or is Sarah's mind just playing tricks on her?
Why the hell is this movie called Nympha when the movie
tells the story of a girl named Ninfa? I just had to
get that question off of my chest. Ivan Zuccon's (The
Shunned House) latest horror flick stars the beautiful
and very talented Tiffany Shepis as a young woman who
has just joined a convent. Tiffany Shepis in a convent?
Well now I've seen everything! Anyway, the sisters in
the convent aren't very nice to her and start torturing
her in various ways, telling her that she will only
get in touch with god once all of her senses have been
destroyed and only her soul is left. The movie is really,
and I mean REALLY flat out boring for the first hour
or so and I was about to turn it off several times, but
since Zuccon's The Shunned House really took off towards
the ending and made me fall in love with it, I decided
to give Nympha the benefit of the doubt.
Well, I'm glad that I did. Just like with The Shunned
House (yeah, the two movies are very much alike), Nympha
erupts in the final twenty minutes and becomes a
beautiful and artistic horror flick. Unfortunately,
the road there is long and dull and most of the back-
story could have been completely removed as it doesn't
add much to the movie. The climax also had the potential
to be out of this world but once the movie really had
me in its grip, the end credits started to roll. So my
question is; why spend all this time on building up a
so solid and thoroughly written story if you're not
going to go all the way? Seriously, the ending couldn't
have been more disappointing as it raises so many
questions and leaves you with a feeling of confusion.
See, while Nympha does become a beautiful masterpiece
after 70 minutes or so, it never really leads anywhere.
Sure, it's beautiful too look at and every bone in my
body fell in love with it, but I wanted more. I wanted
so much more. I wanted explanations. I wanted reasons
to why I just sat through 60 minutes of boring
back stories that never led anywhere. But most importantly
I wanted a more satisfying ending. For all of these
major problems, the movie doesn't deserve more than a
1/5 to be honest with you, but Tiffany Shepis does lift
the movie up several notches and manages to save the
day. Oh and she gets fully naked and takes part in some
lesbian lovin'. Okay so I just lost 90% of my readers
right there as they're probably hunting this movie
down like maniacs right now.
In the end, Nympha isn't worth the time. It's a typical
Zuccon flick and I appreciate that he stands by his
artistic way of directing horror flicks, but this time
it just doesn't work. It's too dull, too complex and
not entertaining enough to grab the viewer until it's
finally over. It's a shame because this could have been
such a great movie. But it's not. It's just okay.
Tongue cut off, hands burnt, acid in eyes, etc.
I love the fact that Zuccon uses classical music in
his movies as its beautiful to listen to and it creates
a great atmosphere. Great soundtrack.
Uneventful and slow horror flick that spends so much
time on building up a back-story that it forgets that
the movie is supposed to lead to somewhere. And as soon
as things start getting interesting, the end credits
start to roll. Should have been much better.
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