Deadly Sins

Plot synopsis:
Eleven girls have disappeared from an Eau Claire, Wisconsin Catholic school in the last five years. When one of them, an orphaned outsider named Gwendolyn (Telek), is found dead, hanged at the church bells, Seattleite deputy sheriff Jack Gates (Keith) is assigned to the task to the mystery. When he arrives, he is upset to find out that the unexperienced Doc (Mulligan) has already claimed to have examined the body and that the body has already been removed. Mother Superior (Perry) assigns her secretary, and the school's history teacher, nun Cristina Herrera (Milano) to help Jack with the case. Jack is especially interested in a stolen cross that was also reported along with the death. Through one of the students, Beth (Clark) - a popular student who bullies Polly (Collins) - Jack learns that the school keeps the spirit of Mother Bernadette, the former mother superior, alive. Mother Bernadette has her own - locked from the outside - sanctuary and the students are taught that she is always with them.
That night, Beth sneaks out to have sex with delivery boy Eric (Bacic). Meanwhile, student Suzy Carroll (Copping) is being chased and murdered by an unknown person. The following morning, Jack learns from Doc that Gwen did not commit suicide, but was murdered: there was a cross sign carved in her stomach after her death. Doc thinks that Gwen was being punished for being four months pregnant at the time of her death. Jack is next informed that Suzy has disappeared, and that this has happened before at the school. He gets mad at Mother Superior for not having informed him earlier, but she explains that she did not bother, because all the girls were of age, and were probably eloping. Meanwhile, in class, Beth accuses her teacher Gray (Hanlon) of having impregnated Gwen; Headmaster Gray responds by revealing that he knows about her affair with Eric.
The following night, Marie (Lenhart) is chased by an unknown person near the graveyard. She is saved by Jack, and claims that a woman has touched her. She tries to kiss him, but Jack holds his distance, as does he with Rita (Bates), a waitress of a nearby bar whom he befriended. The next day, Cristina shares her doubt in the integrity of some of the staff with Jack: she finds it strange that Father Anthony graduated top of his class at Harvard, and is now teaching at the small Catholic school; Mother Superior supposedly killed her husband in the past; and Emily (Warn-Pegg) - the school's cook - gave birth to a stillborn child. She is unable to find out, however, why Headmaster Gray left his previous school eight years earlier. Jack has recently found out that Headmaster Gray, previously known as Marc Anthony, was arrested in Webster, Illinois for having sex with one of his students; the charges were later dropped.
The girls, meanwhile, fear that they might be the next to disappear. Nevertheless, Beth sneaks out to meet with Eric, but he is stabbed to death by a person dressed in white. Beth is chased as well, but escapes; she later claims to have witnessed the presence of Mother Bernadette. Jack then confronts Gray with his record, and then finds sex tapes of the missing girls and Beth among Gray's stuff. He concludes that Gray is the killer, but Gray kills himself before an arrest can be made. Jack celebrates having solved the case with Cristina, who reveals herself not as a nun, but as a private investigator hired by the church. They end up having sex that night.
When Marie is reported missing, Jack and Cristina realize that Gray was not the killer. Cristina concludes that all the girls murdered were good girls and that the murderer must have learned of their innocence through the confessional. Cristina finds a secret tunnel behind the confessional, and is knocked unconscious by the murderer. Jack tries to rescue her, but is stabbed in the stomach by the murderer, who has revealed herself as Emily. Cristina eventually rescues Jack by stabbing Emily to death with a cross. They escape the tunnel and later conclude that Gwen killed herself all along, because she was the only girl who had a sin and thus could not have been a victim of Emily.

Tags: murder

Review:
Wonderful music and cinematography, good plot.
I really liked this thriller very much.
The actors are sympathic and good, the plot is thrilling and the settings are beautiful, as is the excellent photography.
I especially liked the music of this film, it's incredible!.
Mediocre slasher with bad plot and acting, but above average cinematography and locations..
Catholic schoolgirls are being murdered, but by whom?
A very standard slasher with sometimes hilarious bad acting and a ridiculous plot.
To make it even worse it is not trashy enough: during the numerous sex scenes the actresses keep on their bras (or are only filmed from the back) and all brutal murders take place off-screen.
The only good things about this film are the locations and the above average cinematography..
Excellent movie for the mystery lovers.....
I only just recently discovered this movie and was glad I did.
It is an excellent movie of mystery and intrigue.
David Keith and Alyssa Milano where both excellent in their respective roles.
The movie gives a little insight of what may be going on behind the walls of a Catholic school.
Plays well on what we have all seen in the 'clicks' of any school be it public or private; The cool crowd and not so cool.
But it is played in well with the concept of the movie and the mystery behind the murders.
I spent most of my time trying to figure out who dun it.
Which to me is a sign of a great mystery.
The BC scenery adds a certain magic to the mystery as well.
It was well written and well acted.
I recommend this to anyone who loves a mystery..
Detective David Keith, Sister Alyssa Milano and a lot of sinful Catholic schoolgirls.
This has many things I like in a movie--a Catholic school setting with a lot of improbably mature-looking, leggy, and big-breasted Catholic schoolgirls doffing their uniforms at every opportunity, a former clean-cut TV star (Alyssa Milano) trying on an "adult" role, and, of course, David Keith as a laconic detective.The plot involves a series of murders at an isolated Catholic girls' school.
David Keith is investigating.
Milano plays a novice nun/secretary who helps him out.
In between the murders there are a plethora of sex scenes--straight sex scenes, lesbian sex scenes, teacher-student sex scenes, David Keith-Alyssa Milano sex scenes.
This isn't perhaps as racy as most erotic thrillers of 90's, but it's better acted, more competently made, and certainly more interesting.
David Keith is great in this and it's hard to believe he largely vanished after this role (and before he could finally get together with Keith David and do a black-and-white buddy cop comedy).
Milano was much more undraped and sexy in "Embrace of the Vampire" and "Poison Ivy 2", but she does a better ACTING job here, not being entirely unconvincing as a novice nun (who may not actually be a nun).There's also a good supporting cast including Terry Mulligan as the local veterinarian/coroner and Peter Hanlon as a creepy headmaster taking sexual advantage of his nubile students (although it's kinda hard to blame him when you see the actresses playing the "students").
I didn't recognize any of the younger supporting actresses, but being somewhat of an authority in the matter, I have to say that along with "Little Witches" this is probably the sexiest Catholic schoolgirl movie of the 90's (a genre that has regrettably vanished in the more politically correct new millennium).
Recommended..
Unholy Desires leading to sins.
The movies which are low on story line & acting but high on meaningless violence & sex may turn off many people, who like good & decent movies.
But here we are not talking about those people.
A low budget thriller which often fall in B-category movies are constrained by resources.
So whenever you plan to watch these kinds of movies, just keep your expectations low then surely you will enjoy these movies.
So Deadly Sins falls in above mentioned category only.
It has limited release & lack of publicity due to which many of you might have missed this one.
So here the plot is : Girls in the catholic church are getting disappeared or killed continuously in small county.
Nobody seemed responsible or being interested to whatever happened to those girls until a new sheriff steps in with the determination to find out the truth.
Nothing more to mention except that Alyssa Milano as always looked very beautiful in this movie..
Girls in Trouble.
***SPOILERS*** Standered slasher movie that has the new deputy in town, or in in this case on the island, Jack Gales, David Keith,confronted with not just the suspected suicide of a local Catholic school girl Gwen, April Telek, but the disappearance of some dozen other Catholic school girl students over the last ten years from the same school!Jack trying to get a handle on what's happening is stymied by the Mother Superior, Pamela Perry, who want's to keep what's going on in her school under wraps and from the public.
It's as if she's's hiding the real reason for all these mysterious incidents involving runaway as well as dead students in her school.
It's later that Jack together with the Mother Superior's assistant soon to be nun Cristina Herrera, Alyssa Milano, uncover the truth about what's really behind all these disappearances as well as Gwen's suicide.
This happens only after a number of other persons including student Suzy, Jennifer Copping,and the island's handsome and horny delivery boy Eric, Steve Bacic, end up becoming the unknown and unseen killers next victims.***Spoiler from this point onwards*** Were given a number of suspects to who's behind all these ritual-like murders which turned out to be false leads resulting in the tragic suicide of the Catholic School's somewhat creepy Headmaster Mr. Gray, Peter Harlon.
Jack together with Cristnia soon realize that with the sole exception of Gwen all the murdered and missing students had gone to confession and it was their confessions to sins that they committed that lead, as it later turned out, to their brutal murders!The killer for once, in a made for TV suspense movie, came as a real surprise coming out of almost nowhere and then having it out with both Jack and Cristina who, like the audience, never saw him coming.
The real reasons behind all this murder and carnage in the movie turned out to be a false sense of rightness on the part of the demented and crusade, in stomping out all the evil in he school, minded religious psycho.
Mentally deranged and totally obsessed with his, or her, own sense of doing GOD's work the killer in fact was doing the work of the Devil instead.
This was later reviled in what the killer, besides murdering, did to the victims of his ten year long rampage.