Nude Nuns With Big Guns (Blu-ray Review)

I Spit on Your Unconsecrated Grave

Robert Rodriguez should demand royalties. Exploitation auteur Joseph Guzman's Nude Nuns
with Big Guns (hereafter "NNwBG") borrows so shamelessly in tone, plot, style, technique,
music and just about everything else from such films as Desperado and From Dusk Till

Dawn
that a trailer for it should have played between the two halves of the Rodriguez/Tarantino double
feature known as Grindhouse (from which Guzman also wantonly steals). But someone...

Video

I have not been able to obtain definitive information about the shooting format of NNwBG, but
it appears to my eye to have been originated on hi-def video. Regardless of the original capture
technique, the final product has been heavily processed for an artificial look that is often awash
in a single color (typically red or yellow) or simply blown-out with high contrast. The result is an
image with a lot of "pop" but relatively poor detail and little in the way of true black, which

Audio

If this were a Robert Rodriguez film, there'd be an active and aggressive audio mix. But it
isn't; so there's not. Gunshots lack impact; motorcycles aren't especially loud; and the surround
speakers don't get much of a workout. The dialogue is clear enough, but it might as well not be
for all the substance it supplies, and the score credited to Dan Gross (whose instructions were
obviously to recycle as much of Grindhouse as possible) sounds cheap and compressed. The
track

Supplements

• Short Film (SD; 1.33:1; 3:47): Billed as the "original" short film, this is in
  rough shape, but it's impossible to tell whether or not that's intentional.


• Trailer (HD, 1080p; 1.78:1; 1:40): Not nearly self-conscious or ironic enough to
  have made it as a Grindhouse trailer.

Final Words

I have no problem with exploitation cinema, because it's often a format for exploring important
concerns in a frank and honest fashion that isn't possible anywhere else. Vigilante pictures have
been a hardy genre in American cinema since at least the Seventies, and as I discussed in a
review of Law Abiding Citizen on another forum, the resilience of the vigilante hero attests
to his (or her) continued ability to strike responsive chords in audience members at a deep emotional
leve...

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