Enter the Devil (1978)

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This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Enter the Devil (1974) ** (out of 4)Danila (Stella Carnacina) is an art student living in Italy who goes to a church to see a statue that she's going to help restore. It doesn't take long for her to start suffering some from violent nightmares and before you know it she is acting out sexually and violently as she becomes possessed by a demon.Like most Italian rip-offs of THE EXORICIST, this film was released under numerous titles including THE EERIE MIDNIGHT HORROR SHOW, THE DEVIL OBSESSION and even SEXORKISTIS. It really doesn't matter what you call the film as it pretty much delivers what you'd expect from it. If you're familiar with the countless clones of THE EXORCIST then you know there's going to be some really bad acting, some really funny possession scenes and yes there will be some green puke.ENTER THE DEVIL is certainly a cheap little film that was obviously rushed through production to get it on the big screen and cash in on the William Friedkin movie. These Italian movies might have lacked in skill and professionalism but they more than made up for that in cheap sleaze. ENTER THE DEVIL has plenty of nudity, sexual scenes and the possession scenes are quite over-the-top and funny. Just check out the sequence where the possessed Danila is hanging her head against her bed board. Just watch how the Priest reacts to all of it as he turns to leave the room.As I said, the performances are rather forgettable but there are enough over-the-top ones to get a few laughs. I'd also argue that the film has a lot of very campy moments that help keep it entertaining. This is especially true for the ending, which as you'd expect goes overboard. ENTER THE DEVIL isn't a good movie and it's certainly poorly made but at the same time there are enough campy moments to keep it entertaining.

This movie is literally the center of the Venn Diagram that would be made of the movies that I love the most.Italian ripoff of a successful film — This movie is obviously trying to be The Exorcist.Satanism — This film has some of the goofiest and most awesome devil tricks of any of I've seen.Exploitation — No one in this film acts like a normal human being and reality has been supplanted by insanity before the demons even get involved.Multiple titles — This film is also known as Sexorcist, The Tormented, Devil Obsession, L'Ossessa and was later re-released post-Rocky Horror midnight movie success in 1977 as The Eerie Midnight Horror Show.And the title card that comes up before the movie begins: THIS FILM IS BASED ON A TRUE STORY.Daniela is an art student in Italy who is so respected by her teachers that she gets to join them as they acquire religious sculptures from a church due to be torn down. That church was deconsecrated way back in the 1700's because the priests and nuns decided that they would turn against God and start having orgies in the church. And one of the statues, an incredibly lifelike display of one of the thieves crucified next to Jesus, catches Daniela's eye. She is told that it was pulled directly from a tree, that it was already inside the wood and all the sculptor had to do was bring out the details. However, many tourists have had mental breakdowns just looking at this sculpture.Daniela's life is weird even before the crazy gets started. Her rich parents throw a party and we learn that her mother isn't just cheating on her husband, she's doing it pretty much in public. Yep — Daniela catches her mother getting whipped by the thorns of a rose — a scene that Becca just randomly walked into and asked, "What are you watching?!?"Our heroine leaves for her studio at the university. As she paints, the sculpture comes off of its cross in a scene that can only come from the deranged mind of Italian exploitation filmmaking (director Mario Gariazzo wrote Sister Emanuelle and directed Very Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind). Of course, that revived religious icon then has sex with her, sex that appears to be a dream as she runs from the studio.Later that night, as Daniela climbs the stairs to her family's apartment, she keeps thinking she is alone, but the sounds of her footsteps don't match up. She hears a demon whisper her name and she runs in fear before the demon overcomes her, forcing her into a state of sexual mania and a dream where she is crucified. She spends the rest of the movie trying to get anyone to have sex with her while stigmata appears on her hands and she does all of the tropes of exorcism rip-offs.And then Ivan Rassimov (All the Colors of the Dark, Shock/Beyond the Door II, Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key ) shows up as Satan, giving Daniela her beauty back so that she can work with him to tempt all of the priests, like Father Xeno (Luigi Pistilli, Oliviero from Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key). She tries to seduce him, so to forget that she has tempted him he self-flagellates.Read more at bandsaboutmovies.com/2017/10/20/enter-the-devil-1974

'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 just can't get it, freaks out on the planet are talking about this one as a must seen, they even dare to call it a (s)exploitation because the possessed girl is seducing priests and is masturbating all time. Don't let me laugh. I watched the movie, seducing is only at the end of the movie and don't call it seducing,it's just bad language that's she is talking. And the masturbationscene is a big laugh too, she tries to seduce her father while masturbating, let me be clear, with her clothes on you perverts out there. It isn't gory or bloody at all, everybody is vomiting on Beyond The Door, well, let me tell, that one is for me better than this flick. Only the last 5 minutes the possessed one is vomiting and having weird eyes. If I had know that this is so bad then I would never caught me a copy. If you really wan't to see a (s)exploiation about exorcism watch Angel Above, The Devil Below or other cheesy ones. a waist of time this is.