Freely blending ethnographic documentary elements with a distinctly macabre storyline of possible demonic possession, Il Demonio (“The Demon”) follows the unraveling of the already unstable Purificata (Daliah Lavi, The Whip and the Body), whose psychosexual obsession with her former lover, Antonio (Frank Wolff, America America), is foiled by his recent marriage to a local woman. Enraged, Purificata places a curse on Antonio, beginning a rapid psychological decline that, as time goes on, takes on a much darker undertone.
Writer-director Brunello Rondi,…
