Once again I am participating in the October Horror Movie a Day challenge. To start the month off, I decided on my favorite of Mario Bava’s works, the 1973 surrealist classic Lisa and the Devil. Elke Sommer and Telly Savalas play the two respective roles, and we meet them both shortly into the opening of the film. Lisa the tourist gets separated from her group and ends up into some type of specialty shop where she meets Leandro (Savalas) buying a life like mannequin. Leandro looks very much like a painting of the devil that Lisa and her friend saw in a mural in the townsquare. Unable to find her way back to her tour group, Lisa takes refuge with a group of strangers (including bombshell Sylvia Koscina) whose car breaks down in front of an old castle where Leandro is the butler. What unfolds is a hauntingly beautiful Gothic romance fever dream where sex, death, and reincarnation terrorize the castles occupants with their own obsessions. Continue reading
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