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.
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