Chi sei? (1974)

Directors:

Ovidio G. Assonitis
Robert Barrett

Writers:

Ovidio G. Assonitis (story) and
Antonio Troiso (story) ...

Release Date:

31 July 1975 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Beyond this door the most terrifying event in the history of mankind is about to occur!

Plot:

Juliet Mills plays a young pregnant woman in San Francisco who is going to have the devil's baby during her strange possession. Richard Johnson shows up to help her... but what does he really want?

Plot Keywords:

Possession | Demon | Baby | Vomit | Birth

Cast

Juliet Mills	...	Jessica Barrett
Gabriele Lavia	...	Robert Barrett
Richard Johnson	...	Dimitri
Nino Segurini	...	Dr. George Staton
Elizabeth Turner	...	Barbara Staton (as Elisabeth Turner)
Barbara Fiorini	...	Gail Barrett
Carla Mancini	...	Mrs. Francis
David Colin Jr.	...	Ken Barrett
Vittorio Fanfoni	...	Mr. Francis
Luigi Marturano

Also Known As:

Behind the Door
Beyond Obsession (USA)
Beyond the Door (USA)
La cosa è tra noi (Chi sei?) (Italy) (informal title)
The Devil Within Her (UK)
Who Are You? (International: English title)

Runtime:

109 min | USA:99 min

Country:

Italy | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Argentina:18 (re-rating) | Argentina:X (original rating) | Australia:R | France:-16 | UK:18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Incir De Paolis Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

A Erre Cinematografica

Goofs:

Continuity: When Dimitri is in the elevator looking down at the complex he sees Robert. The same shot is reused three times.

Quotes:

Dimitri: You see, when you play with them, you get hurt, but the game isn't nearly over now. When evil spirits have had their pleasure, when they have caused us enough pain, they will leave. Evil cannot create; it can only repeat, but repetition which continues for an eternity. Days and months can pass in an instant, an instant. That is why Jessica's pregnancy has gone full term so quickly. The evil has...

Movie Connections:

Edited into 42nd Street Forever, Volume 3: Exploitation Explosion (2008) (V)

Soundtrack:

Bargain with the Devil

Exorcist meets Rosemary's Baby, Italian style...now on Code Red DVD!!

First things first...I got my copy of the Code Red DVD in the mail yesterday and watched it last night. It looks great, and there's even a small introduction with Juliet Mills where she compares the film to "The Omen", before she's corrected. She also says it's a good film, but at that point she wasn't corrected, although technically she should have been.

Despite the fact that it's a ripoff, I still like this film quite a bit. How can you not like a film where one of Mill's children is constantly slurping from a can of pea soup? (with a straw).

At any rate, Mills is pregnant, and her baby is growing at an alarming rate, and so are her, uh, mood swings. Or maybe it's not mood swings, maybe it's something much, much worse, like demonic possession.

Mills had dated a man named Dmitri (Richard Johnson) before she met her current husband, and Dmitri was a Satanist, and he's been lurking about, waiting to "help", although he supposedly has been dead for some time.

Of course there's lots of strange happenings in the house, and Mills spews a lot of nasty green stuff, and disappears mysteriously from time to time, and even eats a banana peel she finds on the sidewalk...when they showed that I though she was going to step on it and do some kind of slapstick, really....it certainly would have fit the nonsensical style of the film.

Technically, this would be called a real dog of a film, but I still like it. It has that sort of style (or lack thereof) that makes even the most terrible Italian films seem, well, entertaining, and perhaps not for reasons intended. Plus, it does have a lot of beautiful San Franciso locations, places where I've actually been myself, plus it does have a fine view of the Cypress Freeway that collapsed in the 1989 earthquake. But come on, someone who's not a tourist driving down Lombard Street to get home? Yeah right....

This is not by any means a great movie, but it is rather a fun movie, and perhaps not for any reason intended. 6 out of 10.