Lisa and the Devil (1973) on Netflix
Lisa Reiner, a tourist in Toledo, loses her way and meets a man resembling the Devil in a fresco. With a couple, she shelters at a villa where he, Leandro, is butler.
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Plot summary
While touring Toledo, Lisa Reiner sees a fresco of the Devil carrying off the dead. She follows music into a shop and finds a music box. The shop owner, helping a man named Leandro with a mustachioed dummy, says the box belongs to Leandro, who resembles that Devil. Lisa flees and becomes lost. Leandro reappears and points her through an arch. After climbing stairs, she meets Carlos, who looks like the dummy and calls her Elena, claiming he has returned for her. She pushes him away and flees. Night falls, and she rides with Francis and Sophia Lehar and their chauffeur George. Their car breaks down, and they take refuge at a villa where Leandro is butler for a blind countess and Maximilian, her son, who arranges for them to stay in a cottage until the car is fixed.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Lisa and the Devil (1973)
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- After a lukewarm reception, producer Alfredo Leone retooled the film as The House of Exorcism, adding newly filmed scenes of a priest exorcising a possessed Lisa to exploit the popularity of The Exorcist.
- Mario Bava disowned the reworked film, saying in May 1976 that it was not his even though it bore his signature, and comparing himself to a cuckolded father with a child that is not his own.
- Producer Alfredo Leone shot some of the added exorcism scenes himself, and Mario Bava's son Lamberto said he taught Leone how to make other scenes, technically speaking.
- The Spanish cut of the film included a gorier version of Koscina's death scene, shortened sex scenes and part of the ending edited out.
- According to Lamberto Bava, some lines of dialogue in the film were lifted verbatim from Dostoyevsky's novel The Demons.
