Exorcisme [Le Viziose]

N.p. Grafopress-Ciampino, 1975. Vintage Italian Locandina poster for the 1975 film, here under the title "Le Viziose."

"Exorcisme" was released under a number of titles, including "Le Viziose," and "Exorcisme et Messes Noires," as well as an X-rated version, "Sexorcismes." Footage from "Exorcisme" was later re-edited in 1979 as "El Sadico de Notre-Dame."

Jess Franco directs here under the pseudonym of James P. Johnson or L.P. Johnson (as on the poster), is the screenwriter under the pseudonym David Khune, and acts under the pseudonym Jess Frank.

Franco's "Exorcisme" features Franco in the lead as Mathis Vogel, a psychotic defrocked priest who writes S&M stories by day and tortures and murders Satanic black mass dinner theater patrons by night. Also starring Franco's longtime collaborator, and later wife, Lina Romay as the free spirit Anne.

13 x 27.5 inches, folded as issued. Near Fine.

Thrower, Stephen. Flowers of Perversion: The Delirious Cinema of Jess Franco, Volume Two 1975-2013.

[Book #147480]