The Exorcist: Italian Style (1975)

Original title

L'Esorciccio

Directed by

Ciccio Ingrassia

Genre

comedy film, horror film, comedy horror, parody film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

T

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 92 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A comedy parody of The Exorcist. After a demonic amulet is brought to Italy, a mayor's son becomes possessed. An exorcist is called in but the spirit jumps between people and eventually possesses him.

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What happens

L'esorciccio (internationally released as The Exorcist: Italian Style and The Exorciccio; the title puns on "Ciccio," a hypocorism of Francesco) is a 1975 Italian Horror comedy film written, directed, produced and starring Ciccio Ingrassia. A parody of William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973), it is the second and last film directed by Ingrassia after Paolo il freddo (a parody of Paolo il caldo). In the film, an amulet of Beelzebub is located in Iran. Once transported to Italy, it causes the spirit possession of a mayor's son. Following a rape performed by the possessed boy, an exorcist is summoned. The evil spirit keeps changing host bodies, and eventually possesses the exorcist himself. The exorcist vanishes at the film's end. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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