L'ossessa (1974)

User Rating:

4.3/10   

Director:

Mario Gariazzo

Writers:

Mario Gariazzo (story)
Ambrogio Molteni (screenplay)

Release Date:

December 1978 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Ravished! Violated! Possessed by Satan!

Plot:

The story in this horror movie revolves around a strange religious icon and the demonic sexual influence it exerts on a young art student...

Plot Keywords:

Art | Student | Statue | Stigmata | Terror

Cast

Stella Carnacina	...	Danila
Chris Avram	...	Mario
Lucretia Love	...	Luisa
Ivan Rassimov	...	Satan
Gabriele Tinti	...	Luisa's lover
Luigi Pistilli	...	Father Xeno
Gianrico Tondinelli	...	Carlo
Umberto Raho	...	Psychiatrist
Giuseppe Addobbati
Piero Gerlini	...	Rev. Antonio
Maria Teresa Piaggio
Edoardo Toniolo
Luigi Antonio Guerra
Giovanni Di Benedetto		(as Gianni De Benedetto)
Elisa Mantellini

Also Known As:

Enter the Devil
The Devil Obsession
The Eerie Midnight Horror Show
The Sexorcist
The Tormented

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

English | Italian

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:18 | USA:R | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Company:

Tiberia Film Internacionale

Trivia:

Based on a true story.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Terror on Tape (1983)

Sexorcising horny demons, Italian style!

After the release of The Exorcist in 1973, it was really only a matter of time before somebody realised that 'ex' sounds a bit like 'sex' and ended up coming up with a film called 'The Sexorcist'. Unfortunately that person was Mario Gariazzo; and while he may well have gone on to contribute to the script of the best Emanuelle film (Sister Emanuelle) and direct the seriously sleazy 1979 Giallo Play Motel - he apparently is not so well suited to ripping off The Exorcist, and The Sexorcist will surely go down as being one of the most pointless Exorcist rip offs of all time; and in a 'genre' that includes films such as Exorcismo and Naked Exorcism - that really is saying something! The trouble in this film starts with a strange wooden statue that is apparently Satan on a cross. It comes alive and a young theology student by the name of Danila ends up getting possessed by the devil. The Devil doesn't seem to have any particular plan in mind; he just gets the young girl masturbating and making sex offers to anyone who will listen...but hey, what else could you expect from a film that puts an 'S' in front of 'Exorcist'?

Actually, that's one of the film's main problems. It's the SEXorcist and there's very little sex to speak of! There's a ton of scenes involving vomiting, loads of religious gabble, scenes set in churches and even a priest being whipped with a chain - but where's the sex that the title promises? Naturally the plot is really very stupid and the director makes no secret of the fact that this film exists simply to cash in on The Exorcist. The Sexorcist is not without plus points, however. The film does feature a rather sleazy atmosphere and a lot of it is set in churches, which blends well. There's also a delicious cast which is headed by the pretty Stella Carnacina - and she gets back up from the likes of Ivan Rassimov (playing the very horny Devil, no less), Gabriele Tinti and Luigi Pistilli who ends up performing the sexorcism. I mean exorcism. The scenes in which the leading lady vomits and prances around 'possessed' are also worth watching. However, at the end of the day; The Sexorcist just doesn't live up its promise and what we end up with is just a really pointless Exorcist rip-off that isn't much worth bothering with.