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Lucifera Demon Lover (1972)

Lucifera Demon Lover poster
Original title
L'amante del demonio
Directed by
Paolo Lombardo
Genre
horror film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 20m
Rating
4.9 of 10 from 14 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Three young women visit an old castle where the devil is said to live. One of them falls asleep and wakes up centuries in the past, where a man in a red hood stalks her.

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What happens

Lucifera: Demon Lover (Italian: L'amante del demonio) is a 1972 Italian horror film. It depicts a trio of young women who go to a centuries-old castle where the devil is rumored to live. One of the women goes to sleep and wakes up a few centuries earlier, where a sinister figure in a red hood follows her everywhere. Described by film critic and historian Roberto Curti as "one of the most obscure Italian Gothic horror films of the decade". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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