Demonia
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Demonia |
| Original title | Demonia |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lucio Fulci |
| script | Lucio Fulci Piero Regnoli |
| production | Ettore Spagnuolo |
| music | Giovanni Cristiani |
| camera | Luigi Ciccarese |
| cut | Otello Colangeli |
| occupation | |
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Demonia is a horror film by Lucio Fulci from 1989, which premiered on video in German-speaking countries ten years later on January 19, 1999.
action
Sicily, 1486: Three nuns are crucified because they were in the service of the devil. More than 500 years later, the sensitive Liza sees and feels the event again during a séance. When she travels to Sicily with a Canadian archaeological group headed by Professor Evans, she meets a suspicious population who are reluctant to see excavations near a monastery; the local antiquarian porter tells of their superstitions and fears. Liza discovers a secret passage and the nuns' graves in the monastery, to which she is magically drawn against the advice of Professor Evans. Their penetration sets free the spirits of the deceased, who from now on can wreak their vengeance in a bloody way and apparently take possession of Liza: Porter dies by a harpoon, two members of the expedition are impaled.
Meanwhile, Liza keeps having visions of the crucifixions. Through multiple encounters with a medium, she learns that the nuns were fornication , murdered their lovers and burned the children they conceived. While the police are groping in the dark and even suspect Professor Evans, the medium dies from their cats scratching out their eyes. The butcher DeSimone is impaled by his tools and his tongue nailed to the table. Liza seems to be losing her sense of reality; a father is cut up by two trees. When the anger of the population is increasingly directed against the archaeologists and Evans breaks off the expedition, he does not find Liza: it becomes clear that the nuns are using Liza to complete their revenge. Professor Evans has to die too. The villagers burn the exposed skeletons.
criticism
“It all makes little sense,” writes Robert Forsching in “Rovi”, and most of the Fulci fans saw this as a pale imitation of his famous goths and a director looking for old form. The lexicon of the international film found: “In all respects a modest horror film, which causes boredom rather than horror.” “The film freezes too much in Fulcis' effort to trim the whole thing into a mystical-demonic, which causes him to repeatedly find himself in extremely lengthy passages and symbolic images. ”, so Andreas Bertler / Harry Lieber.
Remarks
Fulci plays an extensive guest role as an Interpol inspector.
The film tells of five nuns crucified; only three are shown.
literature
- Axel Estein: "Demonia - In the face of the corpse." In: Splatting Image. No. 7, June 1991
Web links
- Demonia in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review on nytimes.com
- ↑ Demonia. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ in: Hell on earth. Lexicon of horror, fantastic and related films. Complete edition. ISBN 978-3980427234 .