La verità secondo Satana (1972)

User Rating:

3.7/10   

Director:

Renato Polselli

Release Date:

7 January 1972 (West Germany)

Genre:

Horror

Plot Keywords:

Bizarre Ritual | Bad Sex | Occult Ritual | Satanism | Erotic Torture

Cast

Sergio Ammirata	...	Tortoletto
Marie-Paule Bastin	...	Yanita
Marcello Bonini Olas	...	Priest
Rita Calderoni	...	Diana
Gino Donato
Stefano Oppedisano	...	Stefano
Lorenzo Piani
Isarco Ravaioli	...	Roibert
Antonio Zambito

Also Known As:

Il vangelo secondo Satana (Italy) (working title)
The Truth According to Satan (Europe: English title) (literal title)

Runtime:

85 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Certification:

Italy:VM18 (cinema release) | Netherlands:18 (video release) | Italy:VM18 (video release)

Company:

G.R.P. Cinematografica

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Mania (1974)

polselli doesnt disappoint!

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Contains Spoilers

What a masterpiece offers Polselli with this film! A man (isarco ravaioli) wants to commit suicide due the coldheartness and egoism of his fiancee, played by Rita Calderoni (with short hair!) After he "plays" a few times russian roulette without the intentioned effect.., he calls Calderoni and tells her he wants to kill himself, she visits him without knowing what awaits her.. the man takes his knife and tortures her a bit with his knife..then he stabs himself in the stomach..and dies..or not?. Rita wants to get rid of the corpse and hides the corpse in a chest. But she gets more problems when she notices a man from her window who has seen everything. the crazy man (as if he came from an italian comedy) is a wacky guy, who seems to take everything cool and not serious is invited to come in and starts to play the sadist..he throws some meatpieces on rita´s nude body just to feed the dog, and after that when Calderonis "slave", a black woman visits them, commands her to whip calderoni. after this, calderoni wants to make it that the black woman was the murder, but the woman(her personal "plaything" by the way..) has no interest to help her.. Rita starts to get crazy and thinks the corpse has disappeared and has just drugged her to fool her..another time she sees the corpes in the bathtub instead of the chest. While all this happens , meanwhile some hippies have gathered together in the living room and dance to some beat (excellent music by the way!) one of them explains their life philosophy regarding the trouble with the corpse: "This is not our world, or world is love..."(!!) .Finally Rita and the man have the idea to cook the corpse and then cut it in pieces. but they don´t really do it.. Suddenly (Surprise!) the "dead" man appears and quite alive! The man has just simulated his death, and has hired the other guy..both have planed this together. but intended things go into another direction..suddenly the man is then on ritas sides and explains he loves her and now wants to protect her. At the End he kills him(..and this time he´s really dead). Rita, actually not very thankfull for this deed, simply wants to call the police. the man then says: "It´s to cold for me in this room..,i have to get out here" (Meaning the coldheartness of Rita) and joins then the hippies in the living room!!!

Polselli said that severall versions should have been made of "La Verita Secondo Satana", also with x-rated scenes (and that is not really a surprise if you see Polselli´s "Oscenita"..). Watching the (unfortunately) uncomplete and heavily cut version of LA Verita Secondo SAtana in german language, shows some alternative scenes fragments.. for example in this version, the dance scenes with the hippies dont appear at all, instead of it: very short fragments of a mass orgy this seems heavily cut and is very possible hardcore in the original version , but these scenes don´t appear at all in the "uncut" version of the italian version.