This Italian-made copycat EXORCIST mixes in a bit of "Oedipus Rex."
"Satan is present and active in the world," a narrator intones in the opening shots, as the camera travels through a group of blank-faced extras gathered near a nameless Italian square. The action moves without explanation to a Black Mass ceremony in a cave, where a robed disciple declares in a badly-dubbed voice, "Fill thy hearts with violence and perversion," inciting his followers to gambol in an R-rated orgy.
When the story proper begins, Peter, a young archaeology student, finds an evil medallion that burns his skin at the touch, but he wears it anyway. Gradually, his complexion and eyes change color, and he begins acting bedeviled.
Director Pannaccio adds what he can to the tired devil-possession plot. For example, during a disco sequence Peter's girlfriend is gorily killed on the dance floor by unseen hands, while at the same time Peter is off killing one of the females seen earlier in the Black Mass sequence. After Peter torments and murders his mother (Francoise Prevost), his nun sister summons a priest (Richard Conte) for exorcist duties. In the inane non-ending, the nun takes the medallion and jumps to her death.
Recommended only for devil-movie completists, EVIL EYE contains some diverting nonsense -- a possessed dart board, actors staring into space while the soundtrack blares spooky music, and an insane asylum sequence that looks pilfered from another movie.
A very uncomfortable looking Conte probably wished he were back in THE BROTHERS RICO or THE GODFATHER. This quickie was also shown in U. S. theaters as NAKED EXORCISM.