L'anticristo - Sepolta viva

Ippolita, a twenty years old girl, prince Massimo Oderisi’s daughter, is paralized on her legs as a result of a violent psychic trauma following a car accident caused by her father and in which her mother died. Ippolita, also upset for having discovered a love affair between Gretel, a girl-friend, and her father, to whom she is morbidly attached, receives a supernatural sign by the demon. The demon who at the same instant explodes inside Ippolita, proclaims to have taken possession of the girl, in order to take revenge against the Oderisi family and to get even for the defeat suffered four centuries earlier. A psychic session trough hypnosis, reveals that Ippolita’s ancestress saved her soul at the last moment. Possessed by the demon, Ippolita seduces Philip, her brother, and tries to kill her father. Of no use are the attempts by the psychiatrist and by a faith healer secretely called by her affectionate governess. Of no use is the attempt by her uncle bishop who does not succed in driving out the demon. Finally, having obtained the authorisation to perform a formal exorcism, a monk arrives, fervent in his faith to terrorize the demon inside Ippolita. After having tried all the sorts of satanic tricks, Ippolita decieves him and succedes in running away from the palace, driven by the desire to kill herself and make the devil win. Her father and brother run after her. Inside the Colosseum, trying to stop her, Philip is pushed by Ippolita and falls off. Her father however succedes in pulling her towards the big cross in the mid of the amphitheater. Kneeling down next to her brother she kisses the cross worn by him. At sunrise, as all the bells of Rome start ringing, Ippolita’s face is again gentle and beautiful. Once more the devil has been defeated.