The House of Exorcism

A wildly incoherent Exorcist spin-off directed, in part at least, by the talented Mario Bava. The film alternates pointlessly between stops-out hocus pocus and some devilish comedy from a lollipop-sucking Telly Savalas. The pseudonymous director credit conceals the fact that this is Bava's Lisa and the Devil (1972), much hacked about and tricked out with clatteringly crude new footage involving Alda as an exorcising priest.