Rating: NR
Genre:
Thriller
Theatrical Release: 11/21/1974(Italy)
Release Date: 09/16/2008
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1/DD2
Run Time: 109 Minutes
Flags: Not For Children
Distributor/Studio: Code Red
This hysterical horror film was the most successful of numerous Italian possession films produced in the wake of
The Exorcist. Lead
Juliet Mills (
Nanny and the Professor) was married to co-screenwriter
Roberto d'Ettore Piazzoli at the time, which might explain her willingness to curse in a guttural voice, spin her head, and throw up in this crude and sexist film.
Mills plays the cheating wife of San Francisco record producer
Gabriele Lavia (
Profondo Rosso) and gets pregnant after a fling with
Richard Johnson. What
Mills doesn't know is that
Johnson is a Satanist, and she is bearing the Antichrist. Child star
David Colin, Jr. returned in the otherwise unrelated
Beyond the Door II, while director
Ovidio Assonitis went on to rip off
Jaws with the giant octopus-epic
Tentacoli.
~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide