In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass grave of a Teutonic purge, an ancient discovery by the new librarian will release an unholy maelstrom of madness, violence, and demonic vengeance.
* Not least because there kind of already has been a version of The Nun in Italian: it's called The Church , it's by the deeply undervalued director Michele Soavi, and it is gaudy, weird, and wonderful.
Other more or less obvious sources of inspiration include Dawn of the Dead , such Italian horror flicks as Lamberto Bava's Demons and Michele Soavi's The Church , Terence Malick's Badlands, and the novels of Jim Thompson.