Director: Paco Plaza
A convent haunted by something older than its walls is the setting for Sister Death, a prequel that traces one young novice's arrival years before the events of Veronica.
What is Sister Death about?
Narcisa arrives at a former convent already carrying a reputation, stories of miracles from her childhood follow her, and takes a post teaching young girls within its walls. The building itself resists her routines: doors that should stay shut don't, and a presence unsettles both students and staff long before Narcisa can explain what she is sensing.
Cast & crew
Aria Bedmar leads as Narcisa, with Almudena Amor and Maru Valdivielso rounding out the convent's staff and Luisa Merelas, Chelo Vivares, Consuelo Trujillo, Adriana Camarena, and Marina Delgado filling out the ensemble of students and sisters. Director Paco Plaza, known for building dread through architecture as much as performance, again turns a single enclosed setting into the story's central threat, relying on his cast's stillness and hushed line readings more than any overt display of menace.
Context & significance
Set largely within one crumbling institution, Sister Death leans on Spanish Catholic iconography and postwar-era production design to ground its scares in a specific time and place rather than generic haunted-house tropes. Plaza structures the film as a slow accumulation of small wrongness, a chair moved, a hallway that feels longer than it should, before letting the convent's history surface. Reviewers noted its patience as both a strength and the reason it plays quite differently from more jump-scare-driven horror of the same year. The film also functions as an origin story, filling in backstory for a character who resurfaces decades later in Plaza's earlier feature.
Where & how to watch
Sister Death is available on K-Time with a free account login; the page can be browsed and read without signing in, but watching the film requires logging in first. Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles are both provided, and the platform's Farsi interface makes navigation straightforward for Persian-speaking viewers.