Lisa And The Devil
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• Color
• DVD-Video
• Widescreen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 09 July, 1976
DVD Release : 16 May, 2000 |
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Lisa And The Devil description
Directed by giallo maven Mario Bava, House of Exorcism is a truly rare cinematic find: a completely insane film. Sure, there are plenty of movies that are a little quirky, and even more that start off reasonably and then go around the bend later on, but in House of Exorcism, at no time is anything even remotely comprehensible happ ... review details
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Overrated, Flawed Bava Horror
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Lisa and the Devil (1973) and The House of Exorcism (1975) are variants of the same Mario Bava horror film. Lisa and the Devil was intended to be one of his more personal horror tales, but it's subtleties (at least for a horror film) were associated with little popularity and the film was a big money loss for its producers. Trying to recoup their losses, the studio re-edited the film, shot a bunch of new footage and changed the plotline to cash in on the popularity of The Exorcist, resulting in The House of Exorcism.
Lisa and the Devil is largely a mood piece in which a young woman wanders through a confused gothic landscape and mansion for which she has some sort of unexplained, supernatural connection. There are a lot of beautiful images and creepy set ups, but what might have been a great horror film is sabotaged by some very uneven acting, lousy dubbing, heavy-handed use of music, and fairly predictable plotline excesses. The gratuitous violence is to be expected in a Bava film, but it winds up solely gratuitous and not shocking.
If about a third of "Lisa" was edited out, removing some of the worst acting and plot cliches, the film would be more effective, especially emphasizing the disorienting, surreal mood that hints at a dreamlike logic.
As flawed as Lisa and the Devil is, House of Exorcism bombs beyond belief. With scenes almost literally copied from The Exorcist, complete with chapped lips and green vomit, the film clumsily tries to integrate newly filmed demon possession sequences with footage from "Lisa". The acting is even more stilted and the compositions and visual design lack Bava's visual flair. Even if you enjoy films that are "so bad they're good", this just winds up being dull and annoying. One can sympathize with the producers, who cut this mess together because "Lisa" generated no interest with distributors -- "House" wound up making some box office dollars. Perhaps its greatest notoriety now is that Woody Allen showed a clip of it in Annie Hall to crack a joke about evidence that society was coming to an end.
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