Il signor Diavolo

Firstly, why the hell are almost all dialogues so annoyingly whispered? I have to turn my TV's volume to NUCLEAR to hear clearly.

Some actors look quite out of their role, the story idea is OK, here and there the movie managed to give me some sweet discomfort of a horror, but narration is boring, very boring and too much built over long, whispered dialogues that pretend to build tension... without much success. In a sense the direction style seems quite theatrical which might meet the taste of some.

Nice soundtrack.

Superficial and discounted. Terrible acting, elementary history and meaning none. As a mysterious film there is no tension, as a horror film there is no terror. Alessandro Haber and Andrea Roncato make small cameos: Haber is fine but does not shine as usual; Roncato, compared to the protagonists, looks like an Oscar-winning actor. In a peasant context, in 1952, they still go around with oil lamps (ok), but they also have many vans and cars, even the father of the little protagonist. Completely unreal: they were very poor, at most they could afford a cart pulled by a mule. I am Italian and I know well the situation of the villages of those years, even a bicycle was considered expensive (see "Bicycle Thieves" by Vittorio De Sica, 1948). Luckily I didn't go to see it at the cinema: after 5 minutes I would have gone away cursing and asking for a refund. Garbage.

This movie follows perfectly the style of other Pupi Avati's movies. It's a good gothic horror, characterized by a disturbing atmosphere pervaded by a sick and almost surreal sacredness.

Too many things going on in the movie.

Basically a kid kills another kid with extra teeth, church fomented it, another kid dies after being tripped by the extra teeth kid and dropping a host at mass (felt guilty about dropping the host - Priest stops mass because of it), kid with extra teeth tells kid that eventually kills him (and friend of dropping host kid) how to bring him back etc. Oh ya, the kid with extra teeth supposedly bit his baby sister to death in her crib. Not true per the Mother angry about her kid with teeth being murdered and a supporter of current Italian Gov and turns against them.

Superstition that kid with teeth byproduct of in essence bestiality involving a pig therefore must have been the Devil in rural religious superstitious Italy of the1950's.

Meanwhile, because the church involved DC Gov of the time wants it investigated (extra teeth kids Mother the reason), sends its Rep down that tries to figure out what in God's name happened - Mission Impossible per my 1st two paragraphs, gets way too involved and in the end I'm certain he wished he had stayed in Rome and pursued some nurse looking after his Father in a home (and what did that side story have anything to do with the core plot?).

Too busy and weird (the pig thing was deranged to me - ya, they killed it for eating the host). Not much horror. They call it Padano Gothic.

Shock for the sake of shock at times (the whole pig, host sideline story that comes with Mother Superior's involved).

Told you it was a busy movie.

I call it 6 stars for the effort and the investigator and kid murderer actors were decent as was kid with teeth. The rest more like filler if you ask me.

I read the plot and I was so interesting in seeing that one. When I ended the movie I realized that it was not a Horror movie at all. It is just a Supernatural-or kind of-Mystery movie.

Again at the beginning it is very interesting but towards the hour of movie it becomes boring and boring; not knowing exactly what is happening it is not a good thing. They do not provide clues about what we are seeing.

The movie seems to be a long flashback and the investigation of the events. The end is kind of good, but that is all. If you are getting boring and want to stop watching, you must see the the very end.