Diagonaldi Very well executed

Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Mr_Ectoplasma "The Antichrist" focuses on Ippolita, a woman in Rome who has been wheelchair-bound since childhood and has lost her faith. As she spirals into sexual frustration, she is plagued by visions of her ancestor who was executed for being a slave to Satan, and not even her well-meaning hypnotist can save her from what comes next.As virtually every review of this film has stated, it is an absurdly obvious ripoff of "The Exorcist," lifting scenes right out of the film and recreating them rather unimpressively. Poor special effects, green vomit, and overwhelming growls abound, as well as a priest who makes a very Max von Sydow-esque entrance at the end of the film. Okay, so it's a ripoff—with that established, what else can be said of the film? Unfortunately, not a whole lot. What it does having working in its favor is a unique spin on the exorcism tale, with more adult themes (as well as more significantly "adult" images). There are some visually fantastic compositions that appear throughout the film, though a great deal of the cinematography is rather dull. The shock scenes in the film are remarkably repulsive at times, with the most infamous being the bestiality ritual about midway through, which is suggestively disgusting. Carla Gravina plays the lead woman possessed, and is appropriately hysterical when necessary, and calmly seductive as well. Mel Ferrer and Arthur Kennedy both turn in decent performances, while Alida Vali appears in a pre-"Suspiria" role that shows a softer side to the actress in opposition to the harsh Miss Tanner that would come to define her for horror audiences.Overall, "The Antichrist" was a bit of a letdown. I sincerely wanted to like it, but felt the film was quite average in just about every way. As an "Exorcist" retread, it's not great, and even on its own terms, it's a fairly drab film that brings little to the table aside from a few thematic ideas concerning sexuality and the supernatural. It's worth a watch for genre completists, or fans of B-horror films, but aside from a few neat visuals, there just isn't much intrigue here. 5/10.

Woodyanders A bitter and sexually frustrated crippled young woman (superbly played with absolutely fearless abandon by Carla Gravina) renounces her faith in God. Since said lovely young lady was in a previous life a witch who got burned at the stake as a heretic 400 years ago, this makes it doubly easy for Satan to take possession of her body. (The scene where Gravina gives herself to Lucifer is a total doozy: a blue-painted man wearing a ram's head mask forces her to eat a severed toad's head and Gravina gleefully copulates with a goat.) Pretty soon Gravina is making unseemly incestuous advances on her brother, cruising the streets for young men to seduce, using foul language at the diner table, frothing at the mouth, and levitating around the house. Father Mel ("Nightmare City") Ferror and stepmother Alida ("Suspiria") Valli are understandably perturbed. It's up to bishop Arthur ("Let Sleeping Corpses Lie") Kennedy and priest George ("Tower of Evil") Coulouris to save Gravina's soul before it's too late. Capably directed by Alberto De Martino (who also co-wrote the bold script), with sharp photography by notorious celluloid sleazemeister Joe D'Amato, a typically fine, haunting and stirring score by Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai, a creepy, uneasy atmosphere, plenty of hilariously excessive profanity ("You stinking pots of s**t!"), some lovably chintzy optical effects, solid acting from a uniformly excellent cast, and a rousing climactic exorcism, this enjoyably trashy Italian exploitation horror outing really delivers the satisfyingly junky demonic possession goods.

chau_65 I've always liked this movie and i've been lucky enough to find a VHS copy of the french translation of it in a video rental store that was closing down ten years ago with the original plastic box they use to have in movie rental stores.This is the rarest of my collection since i haven't find any(at least in french like mine)over the internet and i cherish it.Sometimes, i think about selling it but, the one who would buy it would have to lay down the cash, believe me!The special effect are quite mediocre, the actors are bad or badly directed, but since i was only ten years old when i first saw it, the souvenirs makes it more valuable to my eyes.I hope you enjoyed it as much as i do every time i watch it and; who knows, you might owned it someday

CMRKeyboadist I remember seeing this movie when I worked at one of my local video stores back in 1998. The description of the movie on the box was rather hilarious as it is obviously bashing itself by saying "Move over Linda Blair". Yes, this is one of the many rip-offs of the famous Friedkin directed film "The Excorcist". Now, just because it was a blatant rip-off does not mean that it wasn't a decent film.First of all, this movie has a very good and creepy soundtrack done by Ennio Morricone. If it weren't for the soundtrack this movie would not have been very good. Second, one of the leading stars in the movie is the infamous Mel Ferrer who has been in many Italian horror flicks in the later part of his acting career. Third, the atmosphere of this movie is actually very well done. It was done well enough to keep your interest high.Unfortuanitly, the down parts of the movie are when the lead actress who gets possessed starts talking just like Linda Blair in "The Excorcist" and she also starts vomiting green crap all over the place just like in "The Excorcist". But if you are a fan of this genre of film making than you can overlook these blatant rip-offs. All in all, I liked this movie. It is nothing great but still enjoyable and worth watching. 7\10 stars