Just watched this gem of a film starring Daliah Lavi as Purif a young woman who, after having her amorous advances rejected by young man in her town (Frank Wolff), resorts to curses and witchcraft to try and win him over. When the townsfolk realise what she is doing everything bad that happens is blamed on her - a little boy dies, bad weather etc. Soon they have her pegged as being possessed by a demon and an exorcism is carried out in the local church...
The DVD out in Italy from Medusa features a very nice 1.66:1, 16:9 enhanced image with Italian audio. The version I watched was a fan subbed version of this DVD, unfortunately the subs are burned in which is a shame as I'd like to buy the Medusa disc and add the subs to it myself as the a/v quality on the fan sub seems a bit compressed - anyone have the subtitle file?
Cool to see where Luca Canali got his avatar from too! :'(
I was also quite taken aback by a scene during the exorcism where Daliah Lavi arches up from the floor and proceeds to do a 'spider-walk' across the church floor, she also flicks out her tongue and curses at the priest in a disembodied voice. It certainly makes you wonder if William Peter Blatty had seen this film...
This is a terrific film, highly recommended!
