The Exorcist: Italian Style
| L'esorciccio | |
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| Directed by | Ciccio Ingrassia |
| Written by |
Ciccio Ingrassia Marino Onorati |
| Starring |
Ciccio Ingrassia Lino Banfi |
| Music by | Franco Godi |
| Cinematography | Guglielmo Mancori |
Release dates | 1975 |
Running time | 90 min. |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
L'esorciccio (internationally released as The Exorcist: Italian Style and The Exorciccio) is a 1975 Italian horror-comedy film written, directed, produced and starring Ciccio Ingrassia.[1]
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).[2]
Plot
In Iran at an archaeological site was discovered a small head of Beelzebub. That little sculpture is found by a young boy in a small town near Rome. The boy is the son of the candidate for mayor of the city and not just simply keeps with him the object begins to have strange quirks. He has ten years although violent girls in the country and his father Pasquale does not know what to do. Given that other supernatural events occur in the house of a mayoral candidate, he decides to summon a priest. It is a necromancer called the "Exorciccio" that, with its methods full of concoctions and potions against the evil eye will be able to save the boy. However, he himself will become a monster because he is possessed by Satan.
Cast
- Ciccio Ingrassia as The ExorCiccio
- Lino Banfi as Pasqualino Abate
- Mimmo Baldi as Satanetto
- Didi Perego as Annunziata, Pasqualino's wife
- Barbara Nascimbene as Barbara Abate
- Gigi Bonos as Dr. Schnautzer
- Tano Cimarosa as Turi Randazzo
- Ubaldo Lay as Lt. Sheridan
- Salvatore Baccaro as Satanetto's mother
- Dante Cleri as Antonio Sgrò
- Renato Malavasi as Monsignor Evaristo
- Franca Haas as Margherita
- Ada Pometti as Domestica
- Lorenzo Piani as Armando
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