Italian Title | English Title/s | Director/s | Theatrical Release Outside Italy? Y/N | Theatrical Release in How Many Countries[1] | Month of Domestic Release | Narrative Type[2] |
1974 | ||||||
Chi sei? | The Devil Within Her; Beyond the Door; Behind the Door; A Demon Beyond the Door (US – promotional only) | Ovidio G Assonitis/Roberto D’Ettore Piazzolli | Y | 8 | October | UC |
L’anticristo | The Antichrist; The Tempter; Blasphemy (poster only) | Alberto De Martino | Y | 11 | November | PY(F), UC |
L’ossessa | The Eerie Midnight Horror Show; Enter the Devil; The Devil Obsession; The Sexorcist; The Tormented | Mario Gariazzo | Y | 3 | November | PY(F), DA |
1975 | ||||||
L’esorciccio | The Exorcist: Italian Style | Ciccio Ingrassia | Y | 2 | ? | PY(F), PC(M), DA |
La casa dell’esorcismo | The House of Exorcism/Devil in the House of Exorcism | Mario Bava; Alfredo Leone (reshoots) | Y | 5 | April | (Adult Possession, Female), DA |
Il medaglione insanguinato | The Cursed Medallion; The Night Child; Together Forever | Massimo Dallamano | Y | 3 | April | PC(F), DA |
Un urlo dalle tenebre | The Exorcist III: Cries and Shadows; The Possessor; Naked Exorcism; Cries and Shadows; The Return of the Exorcist | Angelo Pannacciò; Luca Damiano (uncredited) | Y | 4 | August | PY(M), DA |
1978 | ||||||
L’osceno desiderio – Le pene nel ventre | Obscene Desire | Giulio Petroni | Y | 2/3 | December | UC |
1979 | ||||||
Malabimba | Possession of a Teenager; The Malicious Whore | Andrea Bianchi | Y | 3 | September | PY(F) |
Un’ombra nell’ombra | Ring of Darkness; Circle of Fear; Satan’s Wife | Pier Carpi | Y | 3 | October | PC(F) |
1980 | ||||||
Patrick vive ancora | Patrick Still Lives | Mario Landi | N | May | PY(M) | |
1982 | ||||||
La bimba di Satana | Satan’s Baby Doll; A Girl for Satan | Mario Bianchi | N | July | PY(F) | |
Manhattan Baby | Eye of the Evil Dead; Possessed | Lucio Fulci | Y | 8 | August | |
1988 | ||||||
La visione del sabba | The Witches’ Sabbath | Marco Bellocchio | Y | 4 | February | PY(F) |
Il fantasma di Sodoma | Sodoma’s Ghost; The Ghosts of Sodom | Lucio Fulci | N | (TV Movie) | ||
Aenigma | Lucio Fulci | Y | 4 | September | ||
1990 | ||||||
La casa 5 | Beyond Darkness; House 5 (video catalogue only) | Claudio Fragasso | Y | 3 | July | |
Demonia | Lucio Fulci | N | October (Video Only) |
[1] NB. This is within five years of the original Italian theatrical release, thus excluding revival screenings or festival screenings much later.
[2] PY = Possession of a Young Person (M=Male; F=Female); PC = Possession of a Child (M=Male; F=Female); UC = Unholy Conception; DA=Diabolical Art
Notable films made outside Italy:
Spain
El Juego del Diablo (Jorge Darnell,1975), released in English as Devil’s Exorcist
Exorcismo (Juan Bosch, 1975), released in English as Exorcism
France
Les possédées du diable (Jess Franco, 1974), released in English as Lorna the Exorcist; and Linda
West Germany
Magdalena, vom Teufel besessen (Walter Boos, 1974), released in English as Magdalena, Possessed by the Devil; The Devil’s Female; and Beyond the Darkness
Die Liebesbriefe einer portugiesischen Nonne (Jess Franco, 1977), released in English as Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
Turkey
Seytan (Metin Erksan, 1974), released in English as Seytan the Exorcism Incident; and Turkish Exorcist