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The modern Double-DVD of Mario Bava’s gargantuan LISA AND THE DEVIL and it’s re-edited abomination version HOUSE OF EXORCISM is a must for euro-horror fans. Bava’s modern version of LISA is one of the best lyrical euro-horror films ever. The presentation here looks objective like the obsolete ELITE laserdisc which also suffered from some tiny digital artifacting…nothing terrible, but it isn’t perfect. Everything about this go is great- the music, the style, unprejudiced the general feel of it…it’s also completely unconventional. Of course, than there’s the re-edited HOUSE OF EXORCISM version which added modern “exorcist” type scenes and rearranged the film to originate it accessible to audiences in the mid-70’s. It’s unpleasant, of course, but it’s big to have both versions together to peer exactly how the film was damaged by the re-edit….this DVD in a plan is the euro-trash fan’s version of the Criterion “Brazil” DVD! As far as extras go, the DVD unfortunately does not have 2 alternate scenes that were on the ELITE LD – one being an alternate extra gory scene of Silva Koscina’s death and the other an alternate erotic scene between Elke and Orano. The DVD does fill the extra ‘unfinished’ softcore sex scene, though, so why the other 2 scenes were left off is peculiar and disappointing. Other extras include the uncompleted L&TD trailer (also on the LD) plus 2 trailers for HOE. There’s a very minimal “photo/poster gallery” (lasts 23 seconds! ) and some minimal filmos and bios. The HOUSE OF EXORCISM has an audio track featuring Elke and producer Leone who explains how he butchered the film (although he doesn’t word it that intention!) . All in all, it’s a Stout DVD from IMAGE – don’t pass this one up!
In the liner notes of Lisa And The Devil/The House Of Exorcism Alfredo Leone ask Mario Bava that if Mario had carte blanche (a blank check), what movie would he create? His respond was this movie, Lisa And The Devil, which is Bava’s most personal film.
Lisa (Elke Sommer) is a foreigner in a tourist group (it’s never explained what country she’s from, or what country they’re visiting) . While admiring a fresco of the devil (which looks amazingly like Telly Savalas), she hears music and is drawn to it, abandoning the tourist group in the process. This leads her to a man(Telly Savalas) carrying a life-sized dummy. Lisa recognizes him as the devil from the painting and from this moment on the viewer is taken for a nightmarish streak that’s hard to bellow which is actually sincere or a hallucination. Not that the demolish result is a mess, far from it; it is worthy how Bava holds such a non-linear location together so well where other filmakers before and since failed and it’s easy to peer why this is Bava’s current film. The cast ensemble is marvelous and so is the direction. It’s definitely one of his best.
Unfortunately Leone couldn’t net a distributor for this film. Seeing the success of The Exorcist, Leone had Bava reshoot some scenes that had Lisa “posessed” (spouting profanities, spewing pea soup, and so on) . Bava balked at filming material he felt was blasphemous, so he walked and Leone finished filming the scenes, edited them into Lisa And The Devil, and called it The House Of Exorcism. The slay result is really pathetic and an insult to Mario Bava’s movie. There is an audio commentary with Leone and Elke Sommer which is delicious and provides some of the information in making Lisa And The Devil but mostly tries to interpret the filming of The House Of Exorcism. In my idea he fails.
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The DVD special features include beside the commentary, a Mario Bava biography, Bava’s and the cast filmographies, a theatrical trailer for Lisa and the Devil, two theatrical trailers for House Of Exorcism (whoopee), a deleted softcore sex scene between Silva Koscina and Gabriele Tinti, a photo and poster gallery, and liner notes by Bava scholar Tim Lucas. Too abominable there wasn’t an audio commentary by Tim Lucas on Lisa And The Devil; his knowledge is extraordinary and he’s always attractive to listen to.
As awful as House Of Exocism is, I unexcited recommend getting this DVD not only for comparison’s sake but for the Leone/Sommer commentary. Otherwise, salvage the Lisa And The Devil DVD which is available seperately.
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