Mondo Macabro's supplements often make marginal-interest titles far more attractive than they would be without them, and this is no exception. The film is presented in its original Spanish mono with optional English subtitles.

Either the problem decreases as the film goes along or I simply got used to it, because thirty minutes in it no longer bothered me. Anyone more technically articulate than this reviewer is welcome to pipe in. Specifically, and most obviously during the opening scenes, the image is never quite in focus as it might be, as if two incompatible layers were lying atop one another, almost like a 3-D image, though not nearly as severe. Satanico Pandemonium (La Sexorcista) is presented in 16:9 anamorphic widescreen in a problematic transfer that's sharp and using elements in surprisingly good shape, but whose impact is damaged by what I guess is some serious combing problem. Murders are committed with obviously retractable knives, and heavy marble crypts slide open and close with all the ease of filing cabinet drawers. An early scene shows a nun enthusiastically playing a pipe organ, but the choir sings a cappella. Satan pops in and out of scenes via simple jump cuts, like a character out of Bewitched. Production-wise, the picture is cheap and sometimes inept. Where does she send all those blood-spattered habits to be cleaned? Isn't she worried about arousing suspicion? Sister Maria, bare-breasted, flagellates herself better'n Max von Sydow in The Virgin Spring, wears a belt of thorns around her shapely waist, and often finds herself covered in someone else's blood. No, this is a show about nudity and gore, and here the film delivers. The daughter of slaves, she's overwhelmed with survivor guilt, or something. About the only person who comes anywhere close to being something like a character is one of two black nuns working as the order's cook. She's neither the petulant taskmaster nor the concerned matriarchal figure. The Mother Superior has a fair amount of screen time, but the script is vague about her, too. The supporting nuns are so thinly drawn that they aren't even really types. Actress Pezet is cute and doe-like (her features somewhat resemble Winona Ryder), but there's no character to play. Sister Maria has no back story, no character at all she's simply sweet and virginal, then corrupted and scurrilous. Under the Devil's influence, Sister Maria soon commits all manner of mayhem, from the expected steamy lesbian affairs with fellow nuns to raping and murdering pre-pubescent sheep herder Marcello (Daniel Albertos? Cast members go unidentified).Īnd that's it. Sister Maria (Cecilia Pezet) is a pious, dutiful nun stalked and eventually raped by Satan himself (Enrique Rocha). The film is virtually plotless, and is apparently set at the time of the Inquisition. The Mexican picture, whose obscurity is such that no one seems entirely sure when it was released (accounts vary from 1972-75), is strictly by the numbers hokum, but Mondo Macabro's high standard of care make this another DVD sure to please fans of such offbeat fare. Satanico Pandemonium (La Sexorcista) (1973), not to be confused with the Italian The Sexorcist (L'Ossessa, 1974), is a Mexican-made bit of Grand Guignol, 'nunsploitation' made in the mammoth wake that followed Ken Russell's The Devils (1971), The Exorcist (1973), and bits from various Pasolini films.

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