
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom(1976)
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.


“A night she wakes up bound to the bed and with the bleeding body. The revenge of the devil will not delay!”
Purif is distraught when her lover is betrothed to another. When she summons the old ways to curse him, her erratic behavior is interpreted as demonic possession, and the villagers turn against her with physical and sexual violence.

Daliah Lavi
Purificazione (Purif)

Frank Wolff
Antonio
Anna Maria Aveta
Sister Angela
Tiziana Casetti
Agata
Dario Dolci
Don Tommaso
Franca Mazzoni
The Mother Superior

María Teresa Orsini
Nun

Rossana Rovere
Antonio's Wife

Luciana Angiolillo
La Signora di Craco (uncredited)

Andrea Bosic
Priest (uncredited)
The Demon is a horror, drama film released in 1964 exploring themes of witch, italy, superstition, witch burning, possession, catholicism. Directed by Brunello Rondi, it stars Daliah Lavi, Frank Wolff, Anna Maria Aveta. Purif is distraught when her lover is betrothed to another. When she summons the old ways to curse him, her erratic behavior is interpreted as demonic possession, and the villagers turn against her with physical and sexual violence.
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