The Exorciccio

The Exorciccio (L'Esorciccio, 1975) is an Italian spoof comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Ciccio Ingrassia took the lead role and the director's chair both, aiming straight at the horror everyone was talking about that year — William Friedkin's The Exorcist.

The whole Hollywood nightmare about a possessed girl gets dragged onto Italian soil and flattened into farce: spinning heads, green goo and priestly Latin all become excuses for cheap gags and mugging. Lino Banfi, soon to be a fixture of low-brow Italian comedy, turns up alongside Ingrassia. It's crude, daft and proudly stupid — and that's exactly why collectors of 1970s Italian trash keep it around. Stream The Exorciccio (1975) online on iFILM.