Though an obvious attempt to cash in on the popularity of THE EXORCIST, this psychological horror picture is considerably more sensational than its prototype and incorporates many distinctly Italian touches. After all other conventional and unconventional efforts to cure her paralysis have failed, 20-year-old Ippolita (Carla Gravina)and her father, Prince Massimo Oderisi (Mel Ferrer), visit a shrine to the Virgin Mary, where a penitent commits suicide in a frenzy of religious feeling. Soon after, Ippolita begins to behave strangely, becoming aggressive, vulgar and lewd. Is she possessed by an ancestor who was burned at the stake for practicing witchcraft, or is she j...
Released:
1974
Rated:
R
Length:
96 mins