#Lisa and the Devil

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Horrorween Day 21 / 31: Lisa and the Devil (1973) dir. Mario Bava "I prefer ghosts to vampires, though. They're so much more human; they have a tradition to live up to. Somehow they manage to keep all the horror in without spilling any blood."

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Lisa and the Devil (1973) Mario Bava

[goryhorroor]

day 30 of horror: giallo horror + title cards

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(via DEVIL'S FOOD - Pulp International)

Elke Sommer and Telly Savalas in El Diablo se lleva los muertos, which was known in English as Lisa and the Devil (1973)

[bitter69uk]

Recently watched: freaky, dream-like and unsettling Lisa and the Devil (1973) by Italy’s maestro of gothic horror Mario Bava. The action opens with a bus load of tourists in Toledo, Spain disembarking to gaze upon an ancient fresco depicting the devil. Entranced by the sound of haunting, tinkly music, one of the travelers, the titular Lisa (Elke Sommer), wanders away into a shop of curiosities filled with eerie mannequins. The source of the music is a music box topped with twirling human figurines – and the only other customer in the shop is a man who looks exactly the devil in the fresco (played by TV’s Kojak himself, Telly Savalas! Who is even routinely shown sucking a lollipop!). Now lost and distressed, Lisa encounters a mysterious man who calls her “Elena”. They tussle and she accidentally pushes him down a flight of stairs, seemingly to his death. Freaking out (Elke Sommer spends most of the film in various degrees of freaking out), Lisa flees the scene and accepts a lift from a rich married couple and their chauffeur. When the car breaks down, they find shelter in the palatial haunted villa of a blind Contessa (the ever-majestic Alida Valli) and her handsome but troubled son Maximilian. And the evilly smirking Savalas reappears as their butler (pictured)! From there … well, your guess is as good as mine! It’s all open to interpretation but it includes visions … identity swaps … flashbacks … nightmares … and geysers of blood! Fascinatingly, Bava consented for Lisa and the Devil to be radically re-edited and released with new scenes as an entirely different film entitled The House of Exorcism (1975) to exploit the box office success of The Exorcist (I need to see that version, too!). Watch here.

[malinkymax]

Lisa and the Devil (1973)

[horrororman]

🔪Notable #horror and #scifi films that were released on July 9th....

#TheHouseofExorcism (1976) (US) aka #LisaandtheDevil #MarioBava

#BurialGround (1981)(Italy)

#Candyman3DayoftheDead (1999)(TV premiere). #TonyTodd

#Predators (2010). #scifi #sciencefiction

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Lisa e il diavolo (1973, Mario Bava)

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'Lisa and the Devil' – Mario Bava's giallo psychodrama on Prime Video, Shudder and AMC+

Mario Bava brought a distinctly dreamy, surreal quality to the Italian horror film but with Lisa and the Devil (Italy, 1973) he takes it into a whole new realm of lush nightmare. Elke Sommer is Lisa, an American in a spooky old villa in Spain with a sardonic, lollipop sucking butler (Telly Savalas) who has an uncanny resemblance to the devil as portrayed in a fresco on the town square. He seems…

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Every damn morning that I wake up.. thank you @misssquirrel

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[yourbespokeartisanalapocalypse]

Watched Last Night in Soho this evening and I'm sure I'm not the first person to say it reminded me aesthetically, in the best possible way, of Suspiria. The mannequins and some of the city shots also made me think of Lisa and the Devil.

[fanofspooky]

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