Donny Broussard Reviews: “Nympha”

Right out of the starting gate director Ivan Zuccon’s “Nympha” hits all the right notes. The atmosphere set in the opening scenes is truly creepy, and for a little while I was thinking that I might be watching future cult film. And who knows, maybe “Nympha” will someday achieve cult status, especially because of the beautiful Tiffany Shepis, but after the second act the flick my attention span was weaning.

The movie starts out by introducing Sarah (Tiffany Shepis), a beautiful young woman that has decided to throw her life away by joining a convent. But as soon as she walks through the door of the convent the sisters show her to her room, the homely yet oddly sexy nuns help her get undressed. BAM! We are immediately treated to full frontal nudity from the nubile Tiffany Shepis, and believe me that scene alone makes the flick worth the rental price. After settling in at the convent Sarah starts to see visions from the past. These visions show a creepy old man reading the good book while his daughter struggles to have a baby, and various other scenes that I could have done without. Soon we find out that the daughter of the creepy old man had a child and that child grew up to be a hottie that occasionally enjoys a little girl on girl action. You see the hottie from the past visits Sarah in her dreams, they both get into their birthday suits, and then engage in a hot lesbian scene (I admit it, I rewound and watched that scene at least twice). Between all the dreams and visions Sarah is tortured by the nuns who pour acid into the corners of her eyes and thrust her hands into boiling water (I guess God digs that kinda thing). By the end of the flick I was confused, but I’m pretty sure that the nuns were using Sarah to conjure up the spirit of “Nympha.” At least that’s what I got from the extremely thin plot.

Director Ivan Zuccon has definitely got the atmosphere aspect down, but in order to move on to the next level he should seek out a better script. He also knows how to get a performance out of an actor because all of the performances in “Nympha” were pretty solid, and he positively knows how to pick a leading lady. So all in all the flick wasn’t terrible and Tiffany makes it easy to sit through even if the plot is thin. “Nympha” was almost a killer film, but Tiffany Shepis was definitely a killer babe.