The Antichrist – original title: ”L’anticristo – is a 1974 Italian supernatural horror feature film directed by Alberto De Martino (Formula for a Murder; Holocaust 2000; The Blancheville Monster) from a screenplay co-written with Gianfranco Clerici (The New York Ripper; Cannibal Holocaust) and Vincenzo Mannino (Phantom of Death; House on the Edge of the Park). It stars Carla Gravina, Mel Ferrer and Arthur Kennedy.
The movie was produced by Edmondo Amanti (Cannibal Apocalypse; Let Sleeping Corpses Lie; A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin). Aristide Massaccesi (aka Joe D’Amato) was the cinematographer.
The score was provided by Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai.
In the United States, Avco Embassy released the film in an edited ‘R’-rated version as The Tempter.
Rome: Having been wheelchair-bound since she was involved in a car crash as a child, Ippolita Oderisi, is deeply traumatised. Very fond of her father Massimo, she becomes jealous when she finds he has taken up with another woman, Greta.
A psychologist, Dr. Sinibaldi, places Ippolita under hypnosis and deduces that has become possessed by her ancestor who was burned as a witch.
THE ANTICHRIST ! I saw it in English and Italian and it kills both ways. Carla Gravina is the Italian version of Linda Blair…she’s evil inside, beautiful, blasphemous and anti-clerical all’ rolled in in Catholic Italy !!