Diabolicamente... Letizia (1975) Poster

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5/10
Everyone wants some
Bezenby27 September 2018
Those bloody teenagers and their psychic abilities! You do your best, invite them to stay when their mum dies, and what do they do? Start glaring at things evilly, rub toast on the maid's face, and cause a local doctor to miss his mouth when drinking water.

The girl is Letizia and she looks about as much like a teenager as I look like Beyonce, but let's go with the flow. She arrives at the villa of her Aunt Michela and her husband Gabriele Tinti, and although things start out simple enough, it becomes clear that something is a bit strange about Letizia. First, she comes on to the butler, but at the same time scares the crap out of him by transforming into some sort of demonic Bee-Gee! This affects his sex-life with maid Gassella, who Letizia also comes on to (with some erotic toast rubbing), which somehow causes Gassella to come on to the Aunt. The Aunt resists, but someone is hiding and taking pictures of the naughty deed!

Gabriele and the Aunt also take Letizia out for some dinner where they are met by a psychologist (turns out the Aunt has been having some sort of funny turns and may have had a breakdown in the past). Letizia gives him the evil eye, which makes the psychologist simply pour the water down the side of his face. Yes, Letizia has some sort of evil power, but what does she want with the family, and who is that guy hanging around the place, looking sinister?

What we have here is the plot of a late sixties giallo with a pinch of the Exorcist thrown in because this film was made in 1975. There's also a lot of nudity, and Gabriele Tinti gets to sleep with every female in the cast. You get a lot of dodgy visual effects as Letizia walks through walls etc, and a nihilistic ending that's pure seventies gold. Too much screaming though, way too much screaming.
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4/10
WANT TO SEE MY DEMON FACE?
nogodnomasters1 June 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Marcelo and Micaela can't have children. Like a good Catholic, she blames it on something she might of done. Micaela gets the idea to instead adopt her niece Letizia (Lolita would be too obvious) who has been away at a boarding school. Letizia could pass for 26, which she was at the time of the film.

Letizia has some special demonic powers in influencing people and moving small objects. Some of her powers are voodoo like. She works to take control over the family with sex being weapon.

This is not a great film. It seems to have a vision of a demon, some demonic powers combined with a Lolita theme. The English subtitles appear on the screen seemingly at random, generally about 3-4 seconds before they are spoken.

Parental Guide: MF word spelled out. Sex, FF nudity (Franca Gonella, Magda Konopka, Karin Fiedler )
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3/10
Sex, Demons, Death
BandSAboutMovies15 April 2022
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Sure, it translates as Diabolically... Letizia, but Sex, Demons and Death is a way better title.

Marcello (Gabriele Tinti, one-time husband of Laura Gemser; he's in Endgame) and Micaela (Magda Konopka, Blindman) haven't been able to have children. While Marcello wants to go to Switzerland, she deciodes to just have her niece Letizia (Franca Gonella, Revelations of a Psychiatrist on the World of Sexual Perversion) stay with them instead. This sounds like a bad idea even without the possession part of the deal.

Before you know it, she's frightening their servant Giovanni (Gianni Dei, Patrick Still Lives) by appearing as a red demon, making out with the maid Luisella (Karen Fiedler, Last Harem) starting with psychically rubbing her face with toast and getting biblical with her own aunt. She's also nearly a thirty-something teenager.

So imagine - some parts giallo, some parts The Exorcist and all the sleaze that Italy can sweat up.

Director Salvatore Bugnatelli only made seven movies, five from 1975-1989 - Excuse Me Padre, Are You Horny; Mizzzzica... ma che è proibitissimo? (Mizzzzica...But What Is Prohibited?), Racconto immorale (Immoral Tale); Intimo profondo (Deep Underwear) and this movie - before coming back in 2006 to direct 80 italian sexy models and Diario segreto di un feticista (Secret Diary of a Fetishist). It was co-written with Lorenzo Artale, who also did the dialogue for The Beast In Heat, which is the part where I said, "Oh, this makes sense."
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