Enter the Devil (1978)

Sick Product of a Sick System

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Excellent but underrated film

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

'The Eerie Midnight Horror Show' aka 'Enter the Devil' (1974) is a Euro-trash horror surrounding demonic possession of a young woman. It's an okay rip-off of 'The Exorcist (1973)' - mildly entertaining.The beginning of this film did not do much for me - in fact it bored me. But I continued to watch it anyway (I gave it a chance) and the movie got better. The last 20 to 30 minutes of the film is good.I was hoping to like this film better than what I do. I like it to a degree but the beginning of the film I found to be quite a bore. It's not to bad of a movie if you are looking for another film on demons possessing someone.4/10

I will say this has a very interesting 1/3-- possession by wooden carving of a martyr that is actually a demon who has sex with our beautiful protagonist. The viewer is also treated to some mildly kinky sex between our protagonist's mother and her lover involving roses. But then we lose all things creative, everything comes to a standstill for endless scenes of screaming and masturbation. That sounds somewhat amusing, yes? It isn't. There IS a protracted scene of vomiting at the end. WOO HOO. It's actually pretty gross, but too little too late. After our protag is violated and possessed, film falls into line with ALL other possession tales. I am sure there are worse possession tales out there, but few have such creative starts that are so violently squandered.

"L'Ossessa" aka. "The Sexorcist" (1974) may be one of the silliest and nonsensical out of the many European rip-offs of "The Exorcist", but it is also one of the more entertaining ones. The possessed here is not a child or girl barely in her teens, but a gorgeous young woman, Danila (played by Stella Carnacina), who is an outstanding student of theology. When she assists her professor in examining a sinister religious icon, the lord of the flies himself takes possession of her... for the main reason to make her masturbate and offer sex to anybody available.The storyline obviously isn't the most original thing ever written, and it is also very nonsensical, but it is fun to watch. The ravishing Stella Carnacina must be one of the sexiest of the many sexy starlets in Italian 70s Exploitation cinema, and she therefore is the perfect girl to play a possessed nymphomaniac. L'Ossessa also stars two of the absolute greatest Italian genre actors: The always sinister Ivan Rassimov plays an incredibly horny Satan, and which actor would be more predestined for such a role? The great Luigi Pistilli plays the exorcising priest (in which role he sadly has very little screen time). The Exorcist with Rassimov as the devil, Pistilli as the exorcist, and the super-hot Stella Carnacina as the possessed girl - which lover of Italian Horror/Exploitation cinema would not at least find the idea enjoyable? The rest of the cast includes Chris Avahm (known to Italian genre-fans for his role in Mario Bava's "Bay of Blood) as Danila's father, and Lucretia Love, as Danila's nymphomaniac mother who likes to get whipped by her adulterous lover (Gabriele Tinti).The film is obviously very sleazy, and there is one very well-done gore scene, as well as some creepy moments. The finale is pretty ridiculous, but suspense and logic generally aren't the film's strongest points. The score is also pretty cool. Overall, "L'Ossessa" certainly isn't a good film, in fact it is very, very silly trash, and most people might agree that it is a piece of crap. In my opinion, it is still great fun to watch, however. My fellow fans of the trashier kind of Italian Horror might enjoy it.

After the release of The Exorcist in 1973, it was really only a matter of time before somebody realised that 'ex' sounds a bit like 'sex' and ended up coming up with a film called 'The Sexorcist'. Unfortunately that person was Mario Gariazzo; and while he may well have gone on to contribute to the script of the best Emanuelle film (Sister Emanuelle) and direct the seriously sleazy 1979 Giallo Play Motel - he apparently is not so well suited to ripping off The Exorcist, and The Sexorcist will surely go down as being one of the most pointless Exorcist rip offs of all time; and in a 'genre' that includes films such as Exorcismo and Naked Exorcism - that really is saying something! The trouble in this film starts with a strange wooden statue that is apparently Satan on a cross. It comes alive and a young theology student by the name of Danila ends up getting possessed by the devil. The Devil doesn't seem to have any particular plan in mind; he just gets the young girl masturbating and making sex offers to anyone who will listen...but hey, what else could you expect from a film that puts an 'S' in front of 'Exorcist'? Actually, that's one of the film's main problems. It's the SEXorcist and there's very little sex to speak of! There's a ton of scenes involving vomiting, loads of religious gabble, scenes set in churches and even a priest being whipped with a chain - but where's the sex that the title promises? Naturally the plot is really very stupid and the director makes no secret of the fact that this film exists simply to cash in on The Exorcist. The Sexorcist is not without plus points, however. The film does feature a rather sleazy atmosphere and a lot of it is set in churches, which blends well. There's also a delicious cast which is headed by the pretty Stella Carnacina - and she gets back up from the likes of Ivan Rassimov (playing the very horny Devil, no less), Gabriele Tinti and Luigi Pistilli who ends up performing the sexorcism. I mean exorcism. The scenes in which the leading lady vomits and prances around 'possessed' are also worth watching. However, at the end of the day; The Sexorcist just doesn't live up its promise and what we end up with is just a really pointless Exorcist rip-off that isn't much worth bothering with.