The Antichrist (1974)

Dir: Alberto Martino

Laughable Italian possession story in which Carla Gravina plays a paralysed woman who curses God and winds up possessed by Satan Himself. Satan, here, talks with a ridiculous accent and in the third person, which makes him sound like a cross between a bad James Bond villain and Jar Jar Binks. He also makes Gravina spew up copious amounts of spinach soup on the maid, her family, several priests and some weird old voodoo guy who threatens her with sausages. It's possibly even more ludicrous than it sounds though distinctly less enjoyable. Snail-paced and illogical beyond belief (especially the talky scenes, in which the priests try to convince us that it's a well-established scientific fact how sexual frustration leads to demonic possession), "The Antichrist" has very little to recommend about it. Even "the notorious goat orgy" promised on the back cover of the DVD is merely a bunch of naked hippies bouncing around in a field with a goat. Avoid. EL BOMBA!