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Most specifically, her writhing in bed with a flicking tongue, scenes cutting to and from the actual orgy, where a goat with a gaping purple hole actually backs that thing up to her face. But if you have an overseas version, one that is uncut, you will see that part for all its glory. She accepts Satan swallowing a toad’s head and drinking his tissues – this is my body and this is my blood – but not without also eating out a goats asshole and fucking the Satanic priest before all is said and done.

What takes The Antichrist to the edges of the Hell sub-genre is the cult-wise infamous Orgy in Hell scene – the dream sequence in which Ippolita gives her soul over to the Devil. Moments including green vomit also hit rock bottom in the repulsiveness category, as Ippolita even forces some to eat her congealed globular insides (which was a welcome cringe in my book). The possessed woman is of age, and not young, so the sexual inferences and nudity also go over the top. The foul verbage flows much more coarse and rushes like a river, compared to the snarling of Linda Blair in 73. And where The Exorcist could not go, The Antichrist does. Quite simply, The Antichrist cant escape the stigmata of being labeled an Exorcist rip-off – but the film quality, acting (for the most part), and devilish sequences cant be denied, as what plays out is an effective but chill-less retelling of an American classic horror film. There are the common occurrences of spewing bile and green vomit, levitations, shifting furniture, and demonic tongues – all culminating in an end-all battle between a mighty Father and the demonically poisoned soul of our main character – but along the way, the scenery is completely different – almost allowing them both to be taken as different films entirely. The similarities of The Antichrist and The Exorcist run parallel – both stories evolving around a possessed woman who needs her soul cleansed of the evil that has overtaken her – but both are played out almost entirely different. Ippolita becomes increasingly troubled and defiant, until finally, she succumbs fully to the Devil within, and spreads her legs on the dinner table, inviting each of her family and friends for a good hearty fuck. This psychological portal now opened somehow bares her soul to forces of evil, which take control of her mortality and destiny during a dream she has later that night in bed – where she spiritually takes part in a Satanic orgy in Hell. They discover that in another life, she was a condemned witch, burned at the stake for being a follower of Satan. She becomes bitter and increasingly angry, voicing her displeasures to the family priest, spilling points of view considered blasphemous – condoning the Devil and questioning without faith the intentions of God.Īs her attitude worsens, enter a doctor of psychiatry, who is intent on hypnotizing Ippolita as a path to remedying her almost completely unusable lower half.

It dawns on her that he will probably marry, and end the constant contact and care that she has become to depend on, both physically and emotionally.

Upon her arrival back at the mansion, she witnesses her father (for whom she has a needy and unnatural love) kissing a woman. Ippolita returns home for the downward spiral. Upon leaving this disappointment, she witnesses a mouth-frothed vagrant, spitting bile onto the holy statue only moments before being chased, and inevitably jumping to his death from a cliffside. The film begins with Ippolita in attendance at a religious healing ceremony for the mentally and spiritually ill – where she beholds a statue of healing and fails to come away any different. Handicapped, and confined to the use of a wheelchair, she has been trying for years, through doctors and other unorthodox methods, to find a cure that will allow her to walk again, as she once did as a child. Ippolita is a paralyzed woman living quite comfortably with her family. Less obvious is the often overlooked fact that this Italian depiction of possession is actually quite good. The Antichrist is quite obviously a 1974 rip-off of 73’s The Exorcist.