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La monja (2005)
An Awesome Movie, with a Bad Ending
Personally, I think too many people are critical of the Movie, it was actually done pretty well.I was surprised that a Spanish Movie was done entirely in English though.Not that it bothers me because I was born in America.The Movie was about how the Evil Spirit of a Nun had risen from her watery grave after the Spanish Government had drained a pond filled with Holy Water near a closed down Convent.The Nun, Sister Ursula had been killed 18 Years before by her Students after she was caught torturing one of them in the Bathroom after discovering that she was pregnant (And by a Priest no doubt).They ended up killing her because they knew she was too violent to let them all go after they first attacked her.They then through Ursula's corpse into the Pond.Because the Pond had been made up of Holy Water the Vengeful Nun's Spirit was trapped inside the Pond and was rendered immobile for years until it was drained.She then began rising from Water in the Homes of all her Victims and killing them in the same way that the Saints they were named after were killed.The Daughter of the Pregnant girl who is now named Eve, ended up walking in on the Murder of her Mother when she saw the Nun slit her Throat with the knife she had picked up to defend herself originally.She ends up meeting the Woman Christy who was then killed that same Night by the Nun and Christy walked in the Bulding to find Christie dead and had seen the Nun's Spirit float out of the Building.The woman told her she was going to meet with her Mother the next day and all of the other Classmates in Barcelona,Spain.So she then decides to go to Barcelona and warn them and try and find out what had actually happened.Later on she meets and falls in love with a young Spanish man whom is studying to be a Priest and then he gets killed along with the only 2 Survivors of all the Boarding school girls, leaving only her with her 2 friends alive.She ends up killing the Nun, because the Young Priest figured that because the Nun uses Water to cause all of the Murders the only way she can be killed is in Water.And because the Nun was named after Saint Ursula who died by an arrow through the heart,she had to be killed in a similar fashion.But the Movie ends pretty badly because while the girl does kill the Nun, she has died also, but with the same arrow through her own heart.The Character Joel, figures that Eva must have been mentally deranged and knew all along that she had been fathered by a Priest and that her Mother and friends had Murdered the Nun.So she somehow developed a Split personality taking on the Role of the Nun and thus carried out these Murders in her name.But the Movie never at any point or even at the very end showed anything that suggests that the girl was deranged at any point.Also, she demonstrated no knowledge of the events that took place years ago and had now come to pass.And what motive could she have possibly had for killing her Mother and her Mother's friends when they had only killed a Vicious Nun in self-defense? Eve had never even met the Nun or much less cared for her.So she had no reason to exact revenge on any of them for anything.After all, they had saved her life in the act of killing the Nun because Sister Ursula was trying to kill her before she could even be born.So if anything she had more reason to praise them for doing it.