The Exorcist: Italian Style

L'esorciccio
Directed byCiccio Ingrassia
Written byCiccio Ingrassia
Marino Onorati
StarringCiccio Ingrassia
Lino Banfi
CinematographyGuglielmo Mancori
Music byFranco Godi
Release date
  • 1975 (1975)
Running time
90 min.
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

L'esorciccio (internationally released as The Exorcist: Italian Style and The Exorciccio; the title puns on "Ciccio," a hypocorism of Francesco) is a 1975 Italian Horror comedy film written, directed, produced and starring Ciccio Ingrassia.[1]

A parody of William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973), it is the second and last film directed by Ingrassia after Paolo il freddo (a parody of Paolo il caldo).[2]

In the film, an amulet of Beelzebub is located in Iran. Once transported to Italy, it causes the spirit possession of a mayor's son. Following a rape performed by the possessed boy, an exorcist is summoned. The evil spirit keeps changing host bodies, and eventually possesses the exorcist himself. The exorcist vanishes at the film's end.

  1. ^ Chiti, Roberto; Poppi, Roberto; Pecorari, Mario (1991). Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1970 al 1979 (in Italian). Rome: Gremese Editore. ISBN 8876059350.
  2. ^ Hutchings, Peter (2009). The A to Z of Horror Cinema. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0810868878.

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