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Dissapointing, with some saving graces...SPOILERS



This is a rather poor film, though it does shimmer in parts. The orgy scenes aren't quite right somehow, and the people aren't that attractive either. Not that should be an issue, but the quasi pornogrpahic scenes are designed to titilate and they don't.

The plot has massive holes in it, but then you'd hardly expect to be presented with a razor sharp film given the title and production date! The photography is good in parts, and the creepy doll is excellent - I just hope they didn't really shoot it in the head, as that was a very valuable item!

The odd things are; when the preggers woman sees the satan worshiper eating blood and guts like an animal she seems strangely calm about it. Then just after some random has tried to rape her she seems to recover quite quickly and humps the husband and the woman! They seem to forget all about this the following day.

Then the film lapses into a really sluggish pace - it gets very very very boring. The final ending with the satanic couple from next door is horribly predictable (as it was hinted at in the very first minutes of the film - and a direct lift from Rosemary's Baby.)

Watch this film for the doll, and some mild titilation if you like women with not that good tits and ass, and hairy men.

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Damn. It's harsh by way of opinion but you have the movie dead to rites. I have some no-name mid 70's Italian satanic smut filth trash on dvd (the kind you find in some obscure $4.00 bin) that's better this movie.
The story doesn't connect at all and the acting is horrible. And I didn't even finish it.
Don't buy into the hype of era-fans who are blinded in their wanderlust for yesteryear.

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I thought the women were beautiful but the sex was too much. Make that scene much shorter and its a cool little 70's satanism flick.

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and the people aren't that attractive either


Well I'm glad you said that because two girls who looked exactly like Ana and Berta just asked me for directions to your house so they could invite you to have a threesome with them. I told them not to bother because you weren't home.

Watch this film for the doll.


The doll? Right.

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