| L'esorciccio | |
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| Directed by | Ciccio Ingrassia |
| Written by | Ciccio Ingrassia Marino Onorati |
| Starring | Ciccio Ingrassia Lino Banfi |
| Cinematography | Guglielmo Mancori |
| Music by | Franco Godi |
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Running time | 90 min. |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
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.
- ^ Chiti, Roberto; Poppi, Roberto; Pecorari, Mario (1991). Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1970 al 1979 (in Italian). Rome: Gremese Editore. ISBN 8876059350.
- ^ Hutchings, Peter (2009). The A to Z of Horror Cinema. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0810868878.