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Carla Gravina (Actor), Mel Ferrer (Actor), Alberto De Martino (Director) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Carla Gravina, Mel Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy, George Coulouris, Alida Valli
  • Directors: Alberto De Martino
  • Producers: Edmondo Amati
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Studiocanal
  • DVD Release Date: 16 Mar. 2009
  • Run Time: 112 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001NDT9XM
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 92,761 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Low-budget 1970s Italian occult horror. Carlo Gravina stars as Hipolita, a paralysed and mentally disturbed young woman who becomes possessed by the spirit of a witch and goes on a murderous rampage. The family housekeeper Irene (Alida Valli) enlists the help of an old monk, Father Mittner (George Colouris), to perform an exorcism and put an end to the madness.

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4.0 out of 5 starsSatan Through The Ages
By Mr. Jonathon T. Beckett on 14 April 2011
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!!!WARNING. MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!!!

Ippolita Oderisi(Carla Gravina), parylised from the waist down since a car accident when she was twelve, is giving up hope of ever regaining the use of her legs. The trauma is mental not physical, and after a disasterous visit to a local shrine which culminates in a troubled man throwing himself from a Castle wall, Ippolita's family organise a visit from a Para-psychologist.The psychologist called Dr Sinibaldi uses regression therapy, and Ippolita regresses back to a previous life, another woman called Ippolita who renounced God and worshipped the Devil.
After several sessions, Ippolita is delighted as she can walk again. The family celebrate but their job is short lived, as Ippolita has been possessed by a demonic spirit from the past, and it soon becomes apparent that this demonic spirit is Satan himself.....
I disagree with the reviewer that says that this film is basically redundant because the story had been told before and better in 'The Exorcist'. I think that L'Antichristo has plenty enough to offer to be enjoyed on its own merit, rather than as an Exorcist rip-off. First of all, the cast. Gravina is excellent as the tormented Ippolita, who harbours over protective, almost sexual thoughts for her father and brother. The rest of the cast don't disappoint either. Mel Ferrer who plays Ippolita's father delivers a nicely underplayed turn and is ably supported by Arthur Kennedy as Ippolita's Uncle, a Catholic Bishop, and George Colouris who plays an Austrian Exorcist. Colouris's role as Father Mittner is especially interesting, as we see Mittner during a flasback to the previous Ippolita's death, hinting at a supernatural dimension to his character.
However, it's the possession/exorcism scenes that these films live and die by.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsOTHER REVIEW IS FOR WRONG MOVIE!!!
By J. C. Robbins on 23 Oct. 2009
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Made a year after William Friedkin's seminal film, THE ANTICHRIST Italy's reaction to THE EXORCIST phenomenon, but rather than being a rip-off it actually brings some originality and style to the demonic possession sub-genre. Carla Gravina stars as Ippolita, a beautiful but crippled young woman who is paralyzed from the waist down. When placed under hypnosis to determine the nature of her paralysis, bizarre visions of satanic rites begin to plague Ippolita, who begins to remember a past life as a heretic witch. Soon Ippolita is walking again, but she has turned into a murderous seductress who could become the host for the devil himself, leading to the inevitable attempt at exorcism by a wise monk.
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5.0 out of 5 starsantia stienburg is beatuyful+ the effects are amazing+disturbing
By MR KERR on 25 Dec. 2013
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film in italian gross horror but engrossing as she is good looking but said and effected by inherited demons/sin
film in itay in 1970s, story of battle as her father brother maid try to help her as she is in a wheel chair.
i was stuned by its power christ can free us if we have true faith.
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1.0 out of 5 starsThe Devil made her do it....
By Jeremy W. Newbould on 15 Mar. 2010
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This is a daft and pointless Italian remake (of sorts) of The Exorcist. A young woman becomes possessed by The Devil providing a cue for lots of swearing, vomiting, furniture moving and making people's heads spin around.

Not a great deal happens (of any interest) for the first half of this film (apart from Swedish babe Anita Strindberg shedding her togs) but when the film gets into its stride literally all Hell breaks loose. This film manages to recreate virtually every famous scene from William Friedkin's notorious 1973 box office hit but it does throw in some original ideas like the headless toad for instance.

The cast contains a few familiar faces for fans of European horror movies including Mel Ferrer (Nightmare City, Island Of The Fishmen, Big Alligator River), Alida Valli (Lisa And The Devil, Suspiria), Anita Strindberg (The Case Of The Scorpion's Tail, Who Saw Her Die?) and Arthur Kennedy (The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue). It was directed by Alberto De Martino, who also directed Blazing Magnum and various spaghetti westerns and sword and sandal epics and the director of photography was Aristide Massaccesi (a.k.a. Joe D'Amato), the notorious exploitation film maker responsible for classics such as Anthropophagus, Emanuelle And The Last Cannibals and The Erotic Nights Of The Living Dead.

Two great Italian film composers, Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai, worked together on the music score for this film but I am disappointed to say that the music is nothing special. Morricone also wrote the music for the dull Exorcist II and, ironically, they used his best theme for that film's trailer but omitted it from the film itself!

If you have never seen The Exorcist then you might enjoy The Antichrist but if you have seen The Exorcist and other similar films then you will probably be bored or disappointed by this movie.
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HASH(0x9f5f6ab0) out of 5 stars A Eurohorror Benchmark 1 Aug. 2002
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Forget the derviative plot (why do so many of you who claim to love Italian horror make a point out of criticzing its cannon as derviative? It is a given). This movie is a triumph of color cinematography (by notorius Italian Porn Director Joe A'Amato, no less), blue screen imaging, grotesque sex, and well-informed blasphemy. While "L'Antichristo" is an "Exorcist" clone, it has its truly original elements, and a stronger Roman Catholic flavor than William Peter Blatty's creations. THIS IS NO HACK JOB!! Alberto De Martino made a technicolor beauty to rival and presage"Suspiria" in the annals of Italian horror.
Carla Gravina's possessed Hippolita is, at different turns, campily repulsive and sexy. Gravina plays her part straight faced and hard bodied.
As for shock, Gravina's repressed memory of her past life's conversion to a "Daughter of Satan" is the most grotesque and disturbing mockery of Catholic ritual committed to film.
In "L'Antichristo," the traditional characteristics of possession are treated less as symptoms, and more as combat techniques. Head spinning becomes a form of murder, and vomit becomes a missile weapon.
As for visuals, you have to see the eerie and out of proportion scene where Hippolita levitates out of a window!!
There are scarier "Exorcist" clones than "L'Antichristo," but none more masterful and visually stunning. I have a friend of a friend of a friend who somehow wrangled an advance copy of this DVD, and, after years of hearing about this movie being essential Italian horror, I'm glad for the sneak preview.
There is not much in the way of extras on this disc, except for a 10-minute interview with De Martino and score composer Ennio Morricone (who scored "Exorcist 2," as well), a stills gallery, and a spare American trailer. Though few, I loved the extras.
A must for monster movie geeks everywhere. Thank you Anchor Bay; you'll have my money next Tuesday.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
HASH(0x9f5f6f18) out of 5 stars Worth a Watch 6 April 2008
By Monty Moonlight - Published on Amazon.com
Format: DVD
In the city of Rome, a troubled young woman named Ippolita loses all her faith in God and others when nothing seems to be able to cure her paralysis and her father's attentions shift to another. A doctor brought in to help cure her apparently psychological affliction begins to experiment with hypnosis, opening a door to a past life that would be better left closed. All Hell breaks loose, quite literally, when Ippolita decides to let Satan into her life again and soon finds herself the devil's tool for bringing about his victory on Earth.

"The Antichrist", also known as "The Tempter", is a flawed but surprisingly good little Italian horror film. No doubt, a fair portion of the film (the latter part) is an "Exorcist" wannabe, but everything that leads up to the big exorcism is really quite different and interesting. And, yes, there's a big orgy scene during a Satanic ceremony at one point, and yes, it does involve Ippolita tasting the business end of a goat, but that part is more implied than anything. Now, as for the "rip-off" exorcism aspect (though I don't see why we should only have one film involving an exorcism and call all others "rip-offs"), yeah, some of the effects are laughable and it doesn't have the scares of the classic Linda Blair film (and Carla Gravina is no hottie-hot-hottie Linda Blair), but it still works for the story being presented and has its own, lighter brand of creepiness. I did find it rather amusing how the characters of the film constantly sent mixed messages about what they believed in, in regards to supernatural vs. science, as well as claiming things like psychic phenomenon to be established scientific facts, but on the whole this movie is successful as what it should be, a piece of entertainment. It is entertaining throughout, and the story is engaging.

"The Antichrist", which also stars Mel Ferrer and Arthur Kennedy, is available here from Anchor Bay in a nice enhanced widescreen. Bonus features include a TV spot, a poster and still gallery, and "Raising Hell", which is an interview with the film's director, Alberto De Martino. Composer Ennio Morricone also takes part. If you're a fan of horror in general, this is well worth owning if you aren't the type to call everything a rip-off or be turned off by a few cheesy effects. Don't expect too much, but it is entertaining at least.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
HASH(0x9f5f6f3c) out of 5 stars "Drive out the evil serpent." 9 Oct. 2005
By Dymon Enlow - Published on Amazon.com
Format: DVD
An implied scene of a woman licking out the business end of a goat, if that don't make you wanna see this movie then maybe seeing Alida Valli (EYES WITHOUT A FACE, SUSPIRIA) get a face full of high powered vomit will.

Obviously made to cash in on THE EXORCIST bandwagon I found it to be just as good as THE EXORCIST despite its cheesy special effects. Then again I never cared for THE EXORCIST.

Cripple Ippolita (and she's as pretty as her name) goes to a hypnotist for help with her leg problem but instead uncovers past life memories of being part of a Satan worshiping cult that also finds goats sexy. Before you can say "inverted cross" Ippolita has made love to an invisible demon, seduced her androgynous brother, attacked some priests, floated around the room, violently re-arranged the furniture, cussed loudly, broke the neck of a Leif Garrett look-alike, screamed a lot, grabbed her crotch even more and ate the head of a toad.

Much better than I ever expected it to be, I'd watch THE ANTICHRIST again and that's saying a lot. I was also very interested in the wild 70's interiors. Check it out.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
HASH(0x9f5fa27c) out of 5 stars PRETTY CHILLING!!! 3 Dec. 2002
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
Format: DVD
This is pretty scary, well that's what I thought. Not as good as THe Omen or The Exorcist, or even Rosemary's Baby, but it is definately worth a look. Watch it alone in the dark for the ultimate fright.
7 of 10 people found the following review helpful
HASH(0x9f5f6e70) out of 5 stars A truly cult movie 8 Feb. 2005
By EL ESTILOS - Published on Amazon.com
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
This movie is very underated... why?,... because of the huge shadow of The Exorcist. It's actually not a spin-off, It's just that in the late 70's and early 80's, the demonic and withcraft theme was so attractive and strong enough to create a period in the movie bussiness, just as slasher movies, dissaster movies, etc., for example Alucarda, Evil Dead, etc.

What makes this film different is the shocking visual elements, specialy the ones about religion and withcraft. The infamous goat-orgy scene, the blasphemous image of Christ, the constant sexual references, etc. The Exorcist it's a masterpiece... but this movie is an artisan work, like an expressionist painting, where you can see the imperfections, realizing that this imperfections are the ones that make it so perfect.

If you think that "Scream" it's a horror movie, if you think that Lucio Fulcci it's a gangster in "Goodfellas", if you expect to see the devil in person designed by Dreamworks, and want to see devilish CGI images, you're gonna hate this film. But, If you're a horror fan... A TRUE HORROR FAN, then you already have this DVD, or you've heard of it.

This movie it's not The Exorcist (the greatest horror movie of all time). It's different,... and great.
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