Strange and eerie Italian "The Exorcist" clone.

OBSCENE DESIRE (Giulio Petroni, 1978) **1/2

Rossella Bergamonti and Patrizia Viotti in Death Falls Lightly (1972)

Asia Argento in The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)

Maggie Cheung and Sammo Kam-Bo Hung in Paper Marriage (1988)

Marisa Mell

Chris Avram

Lou Castel

Joaquín Domínguez

Giulio Petroni

Piero Regnoli

Amanda&apos;s marriage to nobleman Andrea leads her to his Gothic mansion, where supernatural evil lurks. Andrea&apos;s descent into madness involves black magic and murders with his gardener Giovanni, as demonic forces target Amanda&apos;s soul

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This is yet another ROSEMARY&apos;S BABY (1968)/THE EXORCIST (1973)/THE OMEN (1976) clone – which I was unfamiliar with until a few months ago – and, again, one in which the possession is really by an ancestor (shades of BLACK Sunday [1960]) rather than the Devil himself. We still get the obligatory &apos;demonic&apos; scenes, but these here are perhaps the tamest I have ever seen: the would-be exorcist (a disheveled Lou Castel) gives up immediately after the &apos;victim&apos; (Marisa Mell, past her prime but still looking good in the nude) spits out a host he had just fed her – retreating in a room to pray, where a gust of wind turns a hanging cross upside down, he runs hysterically out into the streets soon after only to be run over by a truck! Similarly, the climax sees the trio of devil-worshippers sent to protect the unborn Devil&apos;s spawn (including an unhinged elderly gardener) struggle with and eventually set fire(!) to Mell&apos;s husband (whom she had earlier spied in an orgy with two of them – or was it just her imagination? – and is even revealed to be a serial killer on a &apos;mission&apos; to cleanse the world of sin)!! Following this, in a typically cynical conclusion, Mell boards a plane bound to spread evil in the U.S. The film, then, is muddled in plot development (as if Spaghetti Western exponent Petroni was wary of the material, or presumably lost interest when the producers insisted on adding softcore scenes – in fact, he subsequently disowned the film!) and typically listless in pacebut it nevertheless remains engrossing throughout, aided immeasurably by Carlo Savina&apos;s moodily romantic score. By the way, this was originally released as LA PROFEZIA i.e. THE PROPHECY.

This is yet another ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968)/THE EXORCIST (1973)/THE OMEN (1976) clone – which I was unfamiliar with until a few months ago – and, again, one in which the possession is really by an ancestor (shades of BLACK Sunday [1960]) rather than the Devil himself. We still get the obligatory 'demonic' scenes, but these here are perhaps the tamest I have ever seen: the would-be exorcist (a disheveled Lou Castel) gives up immediately after the 'victim' (Marisa Mell, past her prime but still looking good in the nude) spits out a host he had just fed her – retreating in a room to pray, where a gust of wind turns a hanging cross upside down, he runs hysterically out into the streets soon after only to be run over by a truck! Similarly, the climax sees the trio of devil-worshippers sent to protect the unborn Devil's spawn (including an unhinged elderly gardener) struggle with and eventually set fire(!) to Mell's husband (whom she had earlier spied in an orgy with two of them – or was it just her imagination? – and is even revealed to be a serial killer on a 'mission' to cleanse the world of sin)!! Following this, in a typically cynical conclusion, Mell boards a plane bound to spread evil in the U.S. The film, then, is muddled in plot development (as if Spaghetti Western exponent Petroni was wary of the material, or presumably lost interest when the producers insisted on adding softcore scenes – in fact, he subsequently disowned the film!) and typically listless in pacebut it nevertheless remains engrossing throughout, aided immeasurably by Carlo Savina's moodily romantic score. By the way, this was originally released as LA PROFEZIA i.e. THE PROPHECY.

Amanda's marriage to nobleman Andrea leads her to his Gothic mansion, where supernatural evil lurks. Andrea's descent into madness involves black magic and murders with his gardener Giovanni, as demonic forces target Amanda's soul

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