Favorite Scene


Now that the whole film is available on youtube.com. Both under its original title "L'anticristo" and its alternate title "The Tempter," I was finally able to see it for the first time. And I thought both the acting, especially by Carla Gravina, and the technical aspects of the film were quite good. Better than I expected. Anyway . . .

My favorite scene from the film was in part 6 and featured Gravina's character seducing a German school student, who was visting the ancient ruins in Rome, and making his head spin wildly, before killing him.

Such murderous seductions are not common in films. Much rarer, as here, is a victim in the teens.

Though, in my honest opinion, such an young victim, and one most likely still a virgin, adds some spice to the scene. Thus, here are three such scenes, and the ones that I think are the best to be found, of seduction and murder, in chronological order, in film.

1974 "L'anticristo" The German school student. (?) Neck broken.

1988 "Lair of the White Worm" The British boy scout. (Chris Pitt) Drowned in the tub.

1990 "Troll 2" The American teenager Brett. (David McConnell) Smothered in popcorn.

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My favorite scene would have to be the part at dinner where Ippolita was saying all of those awful things to her father's girlfriend and then all of the dishes started flying around. I also liked the acting. Remo Girone as Fillipo was my favorite character.

The scene you mentioned with the seduction was also good. Not a single word was spoken during that scene, but you were still able to tell what the characters were thinking because the actors did a great job at speaking through their facial expressions. I thought the German school student seemed very uncomfortable with Ippolita touching him like that and wanted her to stop touching him and leave him alone. But she wasn't going to stop until she got what she wanted so he had to give in to her.

"Come, fly the teeth of the wind. Share my wings."

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I liked the conversation with her uncle around the 1.5 hour mark.

"HERE is the devil bwuahahaha - eh priest? Show me your Christian charity! Whores have been forgiven by Christ, don't you also forgive? Because she's a whore, your Appolita .. When she opened her legs to be used, you should've seen how she enjoyed it, how long she had waited for it."

"She would pick gladly from under your tunic, that innocent little nestling, that never has flown ... and SO priest, why don't you dip your limp bird in holy water and BLESS me bwahahaha"

Brilliantly wicked dialog in this movie! Still, I feel it could've been so much better than it was; it missed its mark starting with the floating paintings and furniture.

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I just viewed the film for the third time today and it gets better each time I watch it. It is one of my favorite horror films. The film 'The Lords of Salem' reminds me very much of it in that they both deal with witchcraft/devil worship and have an atmosphere of surrealism about them.

I've been waiting for you, Ben.

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