'' Satánico pandemonium'' () is a 1975 Mexican

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directed by

Gilberto Martínez Solares Mario Gilberto Agustin Martinez Solares (January 19, 1906 – January 18, 1997) was a Mexican director, cinematographer, screenwriter, and actor who is considered one of the most prolific filmmakers in Mexican cinema having directed more tha ...

and written by Jorge Barragán, Adolfo Martínez Solares and Gilberto Martínez Solares. It stars Cecilia Pezet, Enrique Rocha and Delia Magaña.

Plot

Sister Maria lives with the convent for her charity works, but in the secret depths of her fantasies, she becomes agonized by visions from another world, a world in which she is permitted to run free. In this world

Satan Satan, also known as the Devil, is a devilish entity in Abrahamic religions who seduces humans into sin (or falsehood). In Judaism, Satan is seen as an agent subservient to God, typically regarded as a metaphor for the '' yetzer hara'', or ' ...

is her lord, and her acts of violence and blasphemy mount. Sister Maria realizes that she is elected by the Devil himself to destroy the convent and lead her sister nuns into hell. Only the Devil can intuit the dark secrets of her tortured mind.

Cast

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as Luzbel /

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* Cecilia Pezet as Sister Maria * Delia Magaña * Clemencia Colin * Sandra Torres * Adarene San Martin * Patricia Alban * Yayoi Tokawa * Amparo Fustenberg * Paula Aack * Laura Montalvo * Verónica Ávila * Leo Villanueva * Daniel Albertos * Verónica Rivas * Valeria Lupercio

Production

Shooting began in the spring of 1974 in the convents at

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and

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in Mexico. It was inspired by

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’s '' The Devils''. The film inspired

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's character

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in ''

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''.

Release

It premiered on 26 June 1975 as ''La sexorcista'' in the cinemas in Mexico and was released on 24 October 1987 as ''Satanic Pandemonium: The Sexorcist'' by Eagle Video on VHS. The DVD was released on 31 May 2005 by Mondo Macabro in the United States.

Soundtrack

The score was composed by Gustavo César Carrión.

Genre

The film apparently is a delirious amalgam of the then popular materials from Satan, witch hunter horror and

.CULT Cinema: Satanico Pandemonium / Обитель Сатаны
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References

External links

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