Il diavolo nella carne

There have been several films with the title 'Devil in the flesh' over the years (half a dozen at least), typically all of related genres which makes them easy to confuse; atomic-12's comments are about a 1998 film, not this one. The best known (and best) of the lot is probably Marco Bellocchio's from 1986.

This film here is a very-low-budget exploiter about a group of guerillas/bandits taking over a remote hospital, apparently somewhere in Latin America. They have one of their group medically cared for and take the opportunity to have sex with the all-female staff. Overall this is a lousy effort: the script is very poor, the characters lack conviction, the photography is dull, the actors lack screen presence, both the rumpy-pumpy and the (mild) violence are unimaginative. Talentless in all departments.

To write about movies you have to have benchmark or basic point which is always one--movies are illusion. If they reflect on reality it cannot be proved as everybody has different opinion about past and present. With this in mind this flick is excellent and I don't care about plot which is reasonable in this case, female characters which are all hot in their designer's underwear, fair amount of sexual activities etc. Illusion?--yes. Do I care?--no. Why?--D'Amato fits my definition of excellent. Maybe I am wrong?--maybe. But I pay attention to which movies I remember and which dissipate without trace. And I remember how piece of propaganda called Battleship Potemkin was considered one of 10 best movies of all time and as I knew all this propaganda first hand I said--whatever but D'Amato is on my list.

I first saw this on a rented vhs in the early 90's. I can never forget the incident. When i picked up the vhs from the shelf, the owner of the library scolded the sales staff for displaying the vhs n not hiding it. He didnt allow me to take the vhs. I thot mayb it must be one of those nasty horror films. Later behind the owners back i rented the vhs from his other staff out of curiosity. I picked up the vhs considering it to b a deadly horror film since the title was Devil in the Flesh, the poster missing n the library owner's behavior. I got the surprise after playing the vhs that it was a semi porn film. Lots of nudity, non erotic sex scenes, the action scenes were laughable n the budget micro. We get to see a toy helicopter flying far off. For titillating effects, none of the hospital nurses were wearing bra under their uniform. I remember all this cos I recently revisited it on a fast forward mode. A piece of knowledge I unearthed, it's directed by the same guy who gave us Antropophagus n Absurd.