The Demon
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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1/31/1964Runtime
100 minsGenres
Overview
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 visceral nightmare about the collision between desire and superstition, where a woman's desperation is twisted into damnation by a community's hunger for cruelty. This is folk horror rooted in historical dread and the horrors people inflict on each other.
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Daliah Lavi
Purificata
Frank Wolff
Antonio
Anna Maria Aveta
Sister Angela
Tiziana Casetti
Dario Dolci
Don Tommaso
Franca Mazzoni
The Mother Superior
María Teresa Orsini
Nun
Rossana Rovere
Antonio's Wife
Maria Ciriello
(uncredited)
Giovanni Cristofanelli
Father Tomasso (uncredited)
Francesca Farinacci
(uncredited)
Luca Pascarella
(uncredited)
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