If you loved Oxen Split Torturing, try Nuns That Bite
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Nuns That Bite has roughly 3.3× fewer votes than Oxen Split Torturing — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Yuji Makiguchi, and they sit in Horror territory. If that's the register that drew you to Oxen Split Torturing, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Nuns That Bite is
Mountain lodge in early winter, the radio plays static. A woman hides inside after two men leave: blood on the floor, a boot print in the dust. She flees uphill toward candlelit windows, where black habits sway. Five sisters share a crucifix and a hunger. A nun’s rosary snaps like a whip, a python coils on the altar. The postulant watches communion wafers dissolve into pebbles between fingers. A pink-hued giallo shriek, soapy and synthetic.

