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Format: VHS
Rated R
Recording Mode: (unknown)
100 min.
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Movie Description
Finally, after suffering years of humiliation in a debased edited form that comes across as a poor EXORCIST knock-off, LISA AND THE DEVIL has been gloriously restored to its original length. Leave it to Mario Bava--the genius behind HERCULES UNCHAINED and occasional cinematographer for Fellini--to create such a genuinely bizarre film. Lisa, a tourist visiting a remote town in the Italian countryside, is lured into an old villa by its demonic proprietor, brilliantly played by Telly Savalas, lollipop and all. As night falls she is lead through a horrifying labyrinth of perversion and terror, where the boundaries between reality and hallucination cease to exist. The narrative structure occasionally takes a back seat to visual poetics, but the patient viewer will be rewarded by the obsessive care Bava takes in framing this film. A fine choice for fans of David Lynch.
Film Notes
DVD Features:
Region 1 Encoding
Contains both versions of the film - the studio edit and the director's cut
Audio Commentary on The House of Exorcism by Producer/Co-Director Alfredo Leone and star Elke Sommer
Mario Bava Biography & Liner Notes by Tim Lucas
Director and Cast Filmographies
Theatrical Trailers
Deleted Scene
Photo and Poster Gallery
Snap Case
The movie's distributor re-cut the film after the success of THE EXORCIST because Bava was working with potentially similar material, and the studio bigwigs were looking to cash in. However, that version, entitled THE HOUSE OF EXORCISM, entirely misrepresents Bava's intentions and is markedly inferior to the original.
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