What makes it different from others?

just watch it!

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Carla Gravina plays Ippolita Oderisi, a young woman who's been physically disabled due to a long ago accident. At present she is suffering a lack of faith, feeling abandoned by both God and her father Massimo (Mel Ferrer), who's hooked up with a younger woman (Anita Strindberg). A psychiatrist (Umberto Orsini) is called in to help her, but he only makes things worse by hypnotizing her. She is able to recall a past life, centuries ago, when she was persecuted as a witch. Now she's easy prey for Satan himself, who possesses her. Ultimately, a professional exorcist (George Coulouris) is brought in."L'anticristo" wins no awards for originality, but for a (mostly) uninspired "Exorcist" cash-in, it's actually pretty good. Certainly, less patient horror fans will be squirming in their seats, as the story is stretched out to almost two hours long. (It was trimmed of approximately 16 minutes in North America, where it was called "The Tempter".) Fortunately, director / co- writer Alberto De Martino takes the story, and its themes of faith, seriously, and directs his cast toward performances that help to get the viewer involved. Still, it's gratifying when, after an hour has gone by, he and his crew start pulling out all the stops for the sake of an entertaining show. There are plenty of practical effects, and some hilariously bad effects as well. Of course, we also get a fairly familiar demonic sounding voice, who utters the usual amusing obscenities, and Ms. Gravina spews up a generous amount of bile. Whatever the film may lack in creativity, De Martino makes up for that with a decent sense of showmanship.This is a reasonably trashy film, for those who enjoy the sleazier side of Italian genre cinema, boasting a "goat orgy" as a highlight.The cast gives it 100%, especially Gravina. Ferrer (Tobe Hoopers' "Eaten Alive"), Coulouris ("The Skull"), and Arthur Kennedy ("The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue") lead a solid supporting cast, also including Alida Valli ("Suspiria"), Mario Scaccia ("The Perfume of the Lady in Black"), and Remo Girone ("Live by Night").All in all, a fun enough spook show.Seven out of 10.

This filthy and spooky movie , a wildly popular ¨Exorcist¨ imitation , concerns about Hipolita (Carla Gravina), she's a invalid young with unsettling problems from his mother died for a car crash in an accident along with her father (Mel Ferrer) and then she resulted paralyzed . She only has understanding for his brother (Remo Girone) . Her mental problems and intervention a doctor (Umberto Orsini) lead to an act of possession by an ancestor framed as a witch by the Inquisition . Eventually she's deeply possessed and starts seducing a young and other local men only to murder them . Hipolita becomes possessed and a strange exorcism seems to be the only solution to stop the craziness and heal the young invalid . An exorcism carried out by a Father exorcist (George Colouris) results to be the mean to save her but the events go awry . This exploitation picture displays eerie horror , witchcraft , grisly killings , bestiality , satanism and lots of blood and gore . Most often films made to cash in on another hugely box-office ¨The Exorcist¨ tend to be inferior to the template but I have to say, as far as rip-offs of the Freidkin's classic go, ¨The Antichrist¨ is on the better end of the spectrum . Large cast with American actors working in Italy , such as Arthur Kennedy , Mel Ferrer , and George Colouris . Revolting , scary scenes and nasty images take place on orgy scenes with goat included . Packs luxurious scenarios with a lush corridor plenty of sculptures and careful cinematography showing glamorous sets by known Joe DÁmato , though cheesy special effects on the levitation scenes . Creepy and adequate to terror musical score composed by Ennio Morricone and conducted by Bruno Nicolai . The motion picture was regularly directed by Alberto De Martino . He's an Italian craftsman , working from the 60s in all kind of genres and B movies . As he directed Peplum (Secret seven , Spartan gladiators , Invincible gladiator , Valley of stone men) , Spaghetti Western (Django shoots first , Providence , Charge of seven cavalry) , Warlike (Dirty heroes) , European spy genre (OK Connery , Operation Lady Chaplin) , and Terror (Miami Golem , Horror , Holocaust 2000) , among others. Rating : acceptable and passable , though sometimes embarrassing .

Unjustly maligned demonic possession outing deserves a bit better than to be blindly savaged for it's obvious culling of elements from THE EXORCIST. There are some very original and effective moments which propel this film ahead of the general horror tripe sent forth from Europe during the mid-70s. Wheelchair-bound girl, denied the love and physical intimacy vital to her happiness, becomes possessed by, apparently, Satan himself, and thus begins to walk(and become a total whore and vicious killer, as well). Too, she may be pregnant with Satan's child, The Antichrist. There is also a rather vague reincarnation issue scantly touched upon, which plays out in flashback sequences of a young lady enduring a Satanic ritual in an ethereal Hellish garden...she eats the head of a toad and licks a goat's ass before being plowed by a man in a Hairy devil costume. This scene is particularly nasty, and should please the median sleaze enthusiast and make most others very uncomfortable.Visually interesting throughout, and set almost entirely within a great looking "Hollywood Regency" styled apartment, fusing futuristic post-modernism with classic antique decorum...quite nicely done, and gives an unusual atmosphere to the proceedings.Overall, not a hands-down classic(like THE EXORCIST), but better than some(like DEMON WITCH CHILD)...5.5/10

Ippolita, a sexually frustrated (and fairly unlikeable), wheelchair bound young woman, feels that she has been forsaken by God. Under the watchful eye of Dr. Marcello Sinibaldi, she undergoes hypnotic regression in an attempt to restore her ability to walk. However, when it is revealed that an ancestor of hers was burnt at the stake as a devil worshipper, the psychologically fragile Ippolita becomes a prime candidate for diabolic possession. Cue projectile vomiting, levitation and blasphemy as director Alberto De Martino ladles on the bargain basement FX in this pretty poor Exorcist rip-off.Despite lavish cinematography by Joe D'Amato, an effective Ennio Morricone soundtrack, and a willingness to go the extra mile to upset (most notably in the notorious orgy/ritual scene, in which a goat receives an implied ass tonguing, and a blink-and-you'll-miss-it image of Christ with a huge erect schlong!), L'Anticristo remains a second rate production that bores more than it disturbs.You would think foul-mouthed, green-puke spitting females with a tendency to float around their room automatically make a film worth watching, but, hampered by leaden pacing and some dreadful effects, De Martino's movie is a chore to sit through.