The Demon

1964 · 100 min · IT · 7.2 (56 votes)

Dir. Brunello Rondi · Starring Daliah Lavi, Frank Wolff, Anna Maria Aveta, Tiziana Casetti, Dario Dolci, Franca Mazzoni · Music Piero Piccioni

“A night she wakes up bound to the bed and with the bleeding body. The revenge of the devil will not delay!”

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Purif is distraught when her lover is betrothed to another. When she summons the old ways to curse him, her erratic behavior is interpreted as demonic possession, and the villagers turn against her with physical and sexual violence.

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A suffocatingly atmospheric folk horror where ancient superstitions and religious dread coil around a village's paranoia. It feels like a fever dream steeped in dread, where the line between the sacred and the profane blurs into a chilling, inevitable doom.

gothicoppressivesuperstitioustragicslow-burnfolk horrorarthouseperiod dramagiallo-adjacentsuperstitionreligious fervorostracismfate

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