Exorcism's Daughter

1971 [SPANISH]

Drama / Horror

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IMDb Rating 4.8/10 10 163 163

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Plot summary

Tania, an asylum patient, is under the doctor's care while suffering raging behavioral effects that follow the death of her exorcised mother.

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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Michael_Elliott

Decent For a Drama

Exorcism's Daughter (1971) ** (out of 4)After witnessing her mother die during an exorcism being performed on her, Lana (Analía Gadé) winds up in a mental hospital with various insane women. A new doctor shows up and wants to treat these women for mental issues but he gets push back from some who sees mental illness as a sign of witchcraft. This Spanish film was released the same year as THE DEVILS and it's easy to see why this isn't better known. It was re-released after the success of THE EXORCIST and it was attempted to be passed off as a horror film but it really isn't. THis here is basically a drama with some horror elements thrown in and while the film isn't awful it's also not overly memorable either.As with THE DEVILS, this film is basically an attack on religion and those people who are against science in favor of superstition. In this case you have a doctor who believes insane people are a mental issue and not an issue of religion, devils and witchcraft. For the most part the drama plays out pretty good and there's no question that it's an interesting subject.Director Rafael Moreno Alba makes a professional looking film and on a technical level it's good considering its low-budget. The problem is that the film moves a bit too slow at times and there are a lot of scenes where not much happens. There are some memorable moments including an orgy sequence as well as some bizarre fantasy sequences and these help keep the film entertaining to the viewer.EXORCISM'S DAUGHTER, a title given to it to cash in on THE EXORCIST even though this was made two years before, isn't a great film but it's certainly far from being awful. Fans of Spanish horror will want to check it out but don't go in expecting any sort of exploitation.
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Reviewed by BA_Harrison 2 / 10

Nuthouse shenanigans.

I've been duped. With a title like Exorcism's Daughter, I was expecting another Euro rip-off of The Exorcist, complete with a foul-mouthed possessed woman spewing green vomit. That's not what I got.

This film was retitled to cash in on the success of William Friedkin's 1973 horror blockbuster, but the original title, Las Melancólicas (The Melancholic), is far more apt: it's a dreary, depressing tale about a liberal doctor (Rafael Alba, played by Espartaco Santoni) at a rural asylum trying to cure a woman (Analía Gadé) of her madness via progressive methods, and it's incredibly boring to boot.

I have my suspicions that the film is allegorical, with the untrusting townsfolk and brutal asylum guard Fuso (Francisco Rabal) representing Franco's military dictatorship, the insane women representing the oppressed Spanish people, and Alba representing the voice of reason. Or something like that. I'm no expert in the history of Spanish politics-I wanted spinning heads, not hysterical women screaming for almost two hours about wanting freedom.

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