History Literature / TheMonk

The novel was adapted into a film in 2011, ''The Monk'', starring Creator/VincentCassel and Creator/DeborahFrancois. Two previous film adaptations, ''Le Moine'', from 1972, and ''The Monk'' (also released as ''The Final Temptation'' and ''The Seduction of a Priest''), from 1990, starred Creator/FrancoNero and Creator/PaulMcGann respectively. A faux film adaptation was also recorded for the videogame ''[[VideoGame/Immortality2022 Immortality]]''.

The novel was adapted into a film in 2011, ''The Monk'', starring Creator/VincentCassel as Ambrosio. Two previous film adaptations, ''Le Moine'', from 1972, and ''The Monk'' (also released as ''The Final Temptation'' and ''The Seduction of a Priest''), from 1990, starred Creator/FrancoNero and Creator/PaulMcGann respectively. A faux film adaptation was also recorded for the videogame ''[[VideoGame/Immortality2022 Immortality]]''.

The novel was adapted into a film in 2011, ''The Monk'', starring Creator/VincentCassel as Ambrosio. Two previous film adaptations, ''Le Moine'', from 1972, and ''The Monk'' (also released as ''The Final Temptation'' and ''The Seduction of a Priest''), from 1990, starred Creator/FrancoNero and Creator/Paul[=McGann=] respectively. A faux film adaptation was also recorded for the videogame ''[[VideoGame/Immortality2022 Immortality]]''.

The novel was adapted into a film in 2011, ''The Monk'', starring Creator/VincentCassel as Ambrosio. Two previous film adaptations, ''Le Moine'', from 1972, and ''The Monk'' (also released as ''The Final Temptation'' and ''The Seduction of a Priest''), from 1990, starred Creator/FrancoNero and Creator/PaulMcgann respectively. A faux film adaptation was also recorded for the videogame ''[[VideoGame/Immortality2022 Immortality]]''.

The novel was adapted into a film in 2011, ''The Monk'', starring Creator/VincentCassel as Ambrosio. A faux film adaptation was also recorded for the videogame ''[[VideoGame/Immortality2022 Immortality]]''.

* BrotherSisterIncest[=/=]SurpriseIncest: As if [[spoiler:him raping her wasn't bad enough, it turns out that Ambrosio and Antonia]] have the same mother.

** At an other point, Antonia is shown reading a [[{{Main/Bowdlerise}} bowlderised]] version of the Bible. The narrator notes that young girls are recommended to read the Bible, event though it is full of content that would evoke sinful thoughts in them.

The novel was adapted into a film in 2011, ''The Monk'', starring Creator/VincentCassel as Ambrosio.

* CreepyCatholicism: [[spoiler: Ambrosio attempted to rape Antonia (a fifteen year old) and when he failed, he made a DealWithTheDevil.]]
** [[spoiler: He attempts to rape her again, but Elvira catches him. He [[VorpalPillow smothers her to death with a pillow.]]]]
*** [[spoiler: He attempts to rape her ''again'', by giving her an opiate, putting her in a tranquil sleep for two days. Since people believe Antonia to be dead, Ambrosio takes her to the sepulchre between the abbey and the convent, and puts her in a tomb. She awakens terrified, obviously. Ambrosio rapes her and when she tries to flee he assaults her. When Lorenzo and his men approach them, he stabs Antonia and she bleeds to death.]]
** [[spoiler: Upon finding out she's pregnant, the prioress poisons Agnes and imprisons her in the sepulchre. She is forced to give birth to her baby who dies immediately due to the lack of proper care. She's found many days later seriously malnourished and in such a disfigured look that no one even recognizes her to be Agnes. An also terrifying note is that only four nuns know of this in the whole convent, and those four nuns regularly came down to her to insult her and tell her she will go to hell.]]
** The Bleeding Nun is a ghost haunting the castle of Lindenberg who can literally [[FrightDeathtrap scare people to death]]. She's believed to be just a fairy tale, but then she actually appears and it is revealed that she and Agnes switched places, and the one standing on the bedside of Raymond after his accident is the Bleeding Nun.

** [[spoiler: He attempts to rape her again, but Elvira catches him. He smothers her to death with a pillow.]]

** [[spoiler: Upon finding out she's pregnant, the prioress poisons Agnes and imprisons her in the sepulchre. She's found two days later starving and thirsty.]]

* CreepyCatholicism: Ambrosio attempted to rape Antonia (a fifteen year old) and when he failed, he made a DealWithTheDevil.

* MaidenAunt: Leonella, the sister of Antonia's mother.

** At an other point, Antonia is shown reading a [[{{Bowlderise}} bowlderised]] version of the Bible. The narrator notes that young girls are recommended to read the Bible, event though it is full of content that would evoke sinful thoughts in them.