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{{Infobox film
| name =The Eerie Midnight Horror Show
| image =   L ossessa cropped.jpg 
| director = [[Mario Gariazzo]]
| screenplay =Ambrogio Molteni 
| starring =   Stella Carnacina<br /> [[Chris Avram]]<br>Ivan Rassimov<br>Luigi Pistilli<br>Gabriele Tinti
| music = [[Marcello Giombini]]
| cinematography = Carlo Carlini 
| editing =   
| producer = 
| story = Mario Gariazzo
| released = {{Film date|1974}}
| runtime = 90 minutes
| country = Italy
| language = [[Italian language|Italian]]
| budget =
}}
'''''The Eerie Midnight Horror Show''''' ({{langx|it|L'Ossessa}}), also known as ''Enter the Devil'' and ''The Sexorcist'', is a 1974 [[Italy|Italian]] [[horror film]] ''Exorcist'' clone directed by [[Mario Gariazzo]], and starring Stella Carnacina and [[Chris Avram]]. [[Ivan Rassimov]] played Satan in the film.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Luca Rea|title=I colori del buio: il cinema thrilling italiano dal 1930 al 1979|year=1999 |publisher=Molino, 1999|isbn=8890035900}}</ref><ref name="70-7z">{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film|publisher=Gremese, 1991|isbn=8876059695}}</ref><ref name=stracult>{{cite book|last=Marco Giusti|title=Dizionario dei film italiani stracult|year=1999 |publisher=Sperling & Kupfer, 1999|isbn=8820029197}}</ref>  A hardcore version called ''Sexorcist Devil'' was also released.<ref>Paul, Louis (2015). ''Italian Horror Film Directors''. McFarland & Company. pp. 280–281. ISBN 978-0786461134.</ref>

==Plot ==
Danila, an art student in Italy, visits an abandoned, [[consecration|deconsecrated]] church to view life-size wooden sculptures of [[Crucifixion in the arts|the crucifixion]] uncovered there. Along with her art professor, Danila purchases one of the sculptures and brings it to the campus art studio. That night, Danila attends a house party held by her parents, where she witnesses her mother engaging in [[sadomasochism|sadomasochistic]] sex in one of the bedrooms with Mario, her lover. Disturbed by what she has witnessed, Danila returns to the art studio to work. While painting, she has a vision of the statue of the man coming to life and seducing her.

After, Danila meets her boyfriend, Carlo, for dinner. Upon returning home, she is accosted by something unseen in the stairwell. Upon entering her apartment, she begins masturbating furiously. Her parents later find her in bed, writhing and scratching herself violently. She attempts to initiate sex with her father, after which he slaps her in the face. After being sedated, Danila dreams of driving with her parents into the countryside, during which their car has a tire blowout near an abandoned cathedral. As her father repairs the tire, Danila wanders into the cathedral, where an artist is performing restorations. Danila wanders into catacombs, where she has a vision of three women sacrificing another for the man she earlier witnessed manifest from the statue; the cultists address the man as [[Satan]]. Danila drinks from a cup offered to her, before the man crucifies her.

Danila awakens from the dream, violently screaming. Her parents summon a doctor, who finds [[stigmata]] on Danila's hands; however, the wounds miraculously disappear the next day. After a priest determines Danila may be [[demonic possession|possessed]], she is taken to a remote Catholic [[convent]] in the mountains to undergo an [[exorcism]]. When the [[nuns]] recite Latin prayer in the chapel, Danila goes mad and flees, but is stopped in town. Sequestered in the mothers superior's quarters, Danila is approached by Father Xeno, a priest, and she attempts to seduce and [[fellatio|fellate]] him. In his room, Father Xeno [[flagellation|flagellate]]s himself as penance.

In a second attempt to exorcise Danila, Father Xeno is attacked by her with a chain, which she repeatedly whips him with. She begins to violently foam at the mouth upon seeing his crucifix. Father Xeno ultimately dies during the exorcism, but Danila is saved.

== Cast == 
*Stella Carnacina as Danila  
*[[Chris Avram]] as Mario
*Lucretia Love  as Luisa
*[[Ivan Rassimov]] as Satan
*[[Gabriele Tinti (actor)|Gabriele Tinti]] as Luisa's lover
*[[Luigi Pistilli]] as Father Xeno
* Gianrico Tondinelli as Carlo
*[[Umberto Raho]] as Psychiatrist
*Piero Gerlini as Rev. Antonio 
*[[Giuseppe Addobbati]] as Doctor

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0072147}}

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[[Category:1974 horror films]]
[[Category:1974 films]]
[[Category:Italian supernatural horror films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Mario Gariazzo]]
[[Category:Demons in film]]
[[Category:Films about exorcism]]
[[Category:Films scored by Marcello Giombini]]
[[Category:1974 Italian films]]

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