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Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

ernesti There doesn't seem to be many genres or ideas that hadn't been explored or exploited by the Italian film makers. Amusingly L'anticristo manages to be more effective horror movie than the original Exorcist that it just makes its counterpart look quite lame.There's so much more feeling in this movie and more depth to the characters than in many of the movies in this genre. I think the main character is more likable than the child in The Exorcist because she has her own weaknesses and traumas that lead the way to her possession. The movie engages to watch it completely to see what happens to her.For being released in 1974 this movie still has a modern look in it but of course its special effects look quite goofy to tell the truth. But its flaws can be forgiven for the fantastic score composed by Ennio Morricone.This movie is at the same time very tormenting and powerful but also hilarious and entertaining. So being a rip off doesn't mean that it's necessarily a bad movie. Watch it to see a different adaptation of the possessed by the devil story.

Witchfinder General 666 William Friedkin's Cult-milestone THE EXORCIST (1973) spawned quite a number of European rip-offs, or at least of European films that treated the subject of daemonic possessions. As far as European Exorcist-rip-offs go, Alberto De Martino's L'ANTICRISTO aka. THE ANTICHRIST of 1974 is doubtlessly the creepiest and best I've seen. (There is one Italian movie with a similar possession topic, which, in my opinion, is better than this one, Massimo Dallamano's great IL MEDAGLIONE INSANGUINATO aka. THE NIGHT CHILD of 1975. That movie is far too different to label it an Exorcist-rip-off, however.)The possessed here is not a little girl but a young woman, Ippolita (Carla Gravina) who has been paralyzed since the car accident that killed her mother. Since her paralysis has no medical foundation, her father (Mel Ferrer) assigns a psychiatrist to help his daughter. The hypnosis therapy, however, has unwanted results...The storyline is not merely based on THE EXORCIST, but has similarities to a classic Italian Horror formula: An innocent young woman being possessed by an evil ancestor who is her spitting image (and, in this case, even has the same name). The innocent/evil female double role was started in Italian Horror film in Mario Bava's 1960 masterpiece LA MASCHERA DEL DEMONIO (BLACK Sunday/THE MASK OF Satan), which first brought Italian Horror film to international attention. Barbara Steele became famous for such a double role in that film, and continued to play comparable roles in several other Italian Gothic Horror movies. In L'ANTICRISTO, it is Satan who, centuries after possessing an ancestor who was subsequently burned at the stake, takes possession of a wheel-chair-bound young woman.The film is a good example for the stylistic and visual elegance of Italian Horror cinema. The settings are beautiful and eerie alike, the camera-work (done by the one and only sleaze-filmmaker Joe D'Amato) is great. The score is a collaboration of masters Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai, needless to say that its brilliant and increases the thick atmosphere. The film has a good ensemble cast including Mel Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy, the great and beautiful Cult-regular Anita Strindberg, Alida Valli, who would appear in the probably most famous Italian Horror film, Dario Argento's masterpiece SUSPIRIA (1977) three years later. Carla Gravina is believable in the lead and the eerie-looking George Couloris fits well in the role of the Exorcist.Some people seem to dislike the somewhat bizarre first 5 minutes of the movie, but I actually found them to be highly atmospheric. In my opinion, the film got slightly less interesting in the second half, when some of the EXORCIST references became too obvious. The only real complaint one could have are the clumsy effects when objects and people are floating in the air; from today's point of view, they should probably just have left these sequences out, but then, any cult-cinema lover will be willing to look past that in the light of the great style, atmosphere and creepiness of the rest of the film. Overall, this is a very stylish slice of Satanic Horror and highly recommended by yours truly, especially to my fellow fans of Italian Horror.

ma-cortes This filthy and spooky movie , a wildly popular ¨Exorcist¨ imitation , concerns about Hipolita (Carla Gravina), she's a invalid young with unsettling problems from his mother died for a car crash in an accident along with her father (Mel Ferrer) and then she resulted paralyzed . She only has understanding for his brother (Remo Girone) . Her mental problems and intervention a doctor (Umberto Orsini) lead to an act of possession by an ancestor framed as a witch by the Inquisition . Eventually she's deeply possessed and starts seducing a young and other local men only to murder them . Hipolita becomes possessed and a strange exorcism seems to be the only solution to stop the craziness and heal the young invalid . An exorcism carried out by a Father exorcist (George Colouris) results to be the mean to save her but the events go awry . This exploitation picture displays eerie horror , witchcraft , grisly killings , bestiality , satanism and lots of blood and gore . Most often films made to cash in on another hugely box-office ¨The Exorcist¨ tend to be inferior to the template but I have to say, as far as rip-offs of the Freidkin's classic go, ¨The Antichrist¨ is on the better end of the spectrum . Large cast with American actors working in Italy , such as Arthur Kennedy , Mel Ferrer , and George Colouris . Revolting , scary scenes and nasty images take place on orgy scenes with goat included . Packs luxurious scenarios with a lush corridor plenty of sculptures and careful cinematography showing glamorous sets by known Joe DÁmato , though cheesy special effects on the levitation scenes . Creepy and adequate to terror musical score composed by Ennio Morricone and conducted by Bruno Nicolai . The motion picture was regularly directed by Alberto De Martino . He's an Italian craftsman , working from the 60s in all kind of genres and B movies . As he directed Peplum (Secret seven , Spartan gladiators , Invincible gladiator , Valley of stone men) , Spaghetti Western (Django shoots first , Providence , Charge of seven cavalry) , Warlike (Dirty heroes) , European spy genre (OK Connery , Operation Lady Chaplin) , and Terror (Miami Golem , Horror , Holocaust 2000) , among others. Rating : acceptable and passable , though sometimes embarrassing .

Coventry After one failing attempt approximately a year ago, I really wanted to give this movie another chance, if it were only to struggle beyond those confusing and headache-inducing opening five minutes this time. If you consider watching "The Antichrist", bear in mind that the intro is extremely hectic and unappealing but the movie quickly improves after that. We open at some sort of pilgrimage location where a Holy Mary statue supposedly cures crippled people and where a man possessed by demons jumps off a cliff. This introduction is overlong and the photography is really ugly. After that, however, we're more properly introduced to the female lead character. Ippolita is bound to a wheelchair since a car accident at the age of twelve and her lonely existence causes her to lose all faith in God. She becomes an easy target for Satan to possess her body & soul, especially when she also turns out to be the reincarnation of a 16th Century witch that was burned at the stake (hypnosis brought that up). Overnight, Ippolita transforms into a Satan-puppet who seduces young schoolboys and dreams about wild sex with a guy in a goat mask who feeds her toad heads! Her loving father, brother and priest uncle do whatever they can to save poor Ippolita's soul, but the Devil within her is strong and not at all planning to leave without a 'good vs. evil' battle.Another reviewer righteously pointed out already that it's way too easy to label "The Antichrist" as being just another Italian "The Exorcist" rip off. It only turns into a shameless imitation halfway through the story, when Ippolita moves furniture with her mind and says naughty things similar to the lines Linda Blair driveled in "The Exorcist". The least we can do is refer to this exploitation gem as a "Rip-Off DeLuxe", as Alberto De Martino really bothered to add new ideas and even a couple of very interesting sub plots, such as the incestuous relationship between Ippolita and her brother and the alternative voodoo-treatment by a sleazy-looking religion guru. There are quite a few redundant sequences and the slow pacing often gets on your nerves but "The Antichrist" really isn't such a bad film overall. The only truly embarrassing moments occur when the film tries to look EXACTLY like "The Exorcist", with green vomit and rotating heads etc… Compensating for these flaws are a cool soundtrack, fairly adequate performances and a handful of stylish scenes near the middle of the film. Particularly the orgy-hallucination is hauntingly beautiful and more fascinating than any random sequence in William Friendkin's "The Exorcist".