L'Anticristo (The Antichrist) (The Tempter)

L'Anticristo (The Antichrist) (The Tempter) (1974)

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Alberto De Martino's imitative occult horror film, photographed by Aristide Massaccesi (aka Joe D'Amato), is probably the best of numerous Italian copies of The Exorcist that flooded theaters in the mid-'70s. Carla Gravina stars as Ippolita, a paralyzed young woman with serious mental problems… More

In Theaters
Feb 27, 1974 Wide
On DVD
Mar 22, 2005

Critic Reviews

  • Sarah Boslaugh, Playback:stl

    Now von Trier's trying his hand at the horror porn genre without abandoning the genital close-ups, making Antichrist a sort of horror porn squared.

  • Pablo Villaca, Cinema em Cena

    O único elemento que merece elogios, nesta cópia patética de O Exorcista, é a bela Carla Gravina; o resto deve ser exorcizado de nossas memórias.

  • Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com

    It involves Satan, a possessed woman's tongue and a billy goat's butthole. Again, the distinction between scary and unpleasant becomes revoltingly clear.

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  • Lee ?


    An enjoyable but dated and cheesy Italian "Exorcist" rip-off. It doesn't have the exact same story as The Exorcist but it borrows heavily from it but without managing to be as scary or chilling and a lot of its attempts to be so end up being quite funny, particularly… More

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