Rating: 2.5/5
Cult Movie Challenge 2016 | 18/52 | Splatter
A woman surrounded by candles. A vision of a nude woman on a glowing table — Dimitri’s face merges with hers. The woman escapes or something.
Satan admonishes Dimitri for letting her escape. Satan gives Dimitri one last chance before he dies to deliver the antichrist into the world. And he will do it through Jessica, his ex.
Jessica tells her husband, Robert, that she is pregnant. He silently questions it but ultimately welcomes the development.
The pregnancy is weird, though. Jessica vomits blood and goes to the doctor. The doctor tells her that the pregnancy is moving at an alarming rate. The baby inside her is already three months along.
— No doctor can explain her pregnancy — What do you mean? — Her pregnancy is unexplainable
Jessica begins to have violent mood swings. She lashes out, then comes to, unaware of what she did.
In a moment of clarity, she goes in for an abortion. Dimitri speaks through her and declares this baby must be born, no matter what.
If this sounds rad, it kind of is. But between this action is scene after scene of dudes talking about Jessica. So boring!
The movie fumbles along in its Rosemary’s Baby plot for an hour before it pivots to its Exorcist plot, which is a little more fun but still way too much talking and not enough pea soup vomiting.
The soundtrack rules — Robert is a record producer and records a song with a band about making a deal with the devil that is a jam. The score is peak Italian horror.
The movie had so much potential! Watch the “sequels” — in classic Italian fashion, none of the sequels have anything to do with this. Beyond the Door III is stellar.
** Stray Thoughts / Spoilers **
- A little intro from Satan taking credit for the events of the movie
- White dude snapping off-beat to the theme song
- Kid sipping pea soup from a Campbell’s can through a straw??
- The devil here is far less subtle than in Rosemary’s Baby
- “It’s got as much balls as a castrated jellyfish.”
- “Sounds like a jerk-off session in the bathroom.”
- Cursing children!
- No, not the fish tank! Poor fish :(
- How does he not see the moving truck??
- “Come on, you filthy pig, lick the vile whore’s vomit.”
- Wait, she dated Dimitri??
- The band chases him around, singing a song about there being no hope. The best part of the movie
- That baby has no mouth