The Demon
1964
A night she wakes up bound to the bed and with the bleeding body. The revenge of the devil will not delay!
Directed by Brunello Rondi
User Rating
Intensity
Purif is distraught when her lover is betrothed to another. When she summons the old ways to curse him, her erratic behavior is interpreted as demonic possession, and the villagers turn against her with physical and sexual violence.
Where to Watch
Details
- Director
- Brunello Rondi
- Written by
- Brunello Rondi, Luciano Martino, Ugo Guerra
- Produced by
- Federico Magnaghi, Luciano Martino, Ugo Guerra
- Composer
- Piero Piccioni
- Cinematographer
- Carlo Bellero
- Editor
- Mario Serandrei
- Studios
- Titanus, Les Films Marceau-Cocinor, Vox Film
- Origin country
- Italy
- Production countries
- France, Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Language
- Italian
- TMDB
- 7.2/10 (54 votes)
- IMDb
- 7.2/10 (1,098 votes)
Cast
Daliah Lavi
Purificazione (Purif)
Frank Wolff
Antonio
Anna Maria Aveta
Sister Angela
Tiziana Casetti
Agata
Dario Dolci
Don Tommaso
Franca Mazzoni
The Mother Superior
María Teresa Orsini
Nun
Rossana Rovere
Antonio's Wife
Luciana Angiolillo
La Signora di Craco (uncredited)
Andrea Bosic
Priest (uncredited)
Nino Castelnuovo
Buca (uncredited)
Maria Ciriello
(uncredited)
Giovanni Cristofanelli
Padre Tommaso (uncredited)
Francesca Farinacci
(uncredited)
Laura Nucci
La Madre di Purif (uncredited)
Luca Pascarella
(uncredited)
Lea Russo
(uncredited)
Nicola Tagliacozzo
Uncle Giuseppe (uncredited)
Crew
Keywords
Links
Trailer
Appears in
Related Films
Notes
Join the discussion
Notes are for the conversation around a film — theories, close reads, the details worth arguing over.
Just logging a quick reaction to a watch? That lives in your Log.