"The Devil Inside Her" is set in England in 1826.Faith loves the gardener Joseph,but her father forbids it.Faith's sister Hope lusts after Joseph and sells her souls to the Devil to get Jospeh for herself.Zebedy Colt was the director of several truly depraved porno roughies including "Sex Wish" and "Unwilling Lovers"."The Devil Inside Her" is also a pretty twisted film with rather interesting plot.Still the hard core sex scenes in this one are slightly disappointing-they are very short and sometimes unerotic.Still there is plenty of vaginal sex with blow jobs,both female and male masturbation,lesbianism and sexual orgies.The location sets are great as they add to the overall mood of the film.So if you enjoyed "Sex Wish" or Alex De Renzy's "Femmes de Sade" you may give this porno horror a try.7 out of 10.
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Shock Porn...
DBlackthorne16 February 2008
Warning: Spoilers
{Note: In an almost "Aristocrats" manner, this film seems to want to be as shocking as possible, trampling taboos left and right, and it does manage to be disturbing from time to time. Expressing the dualistic Judeo-Christian superstitious legends of antiquity, it manages to pull up just about every hysterical notion leveled against proposed devil-worshipers to frighten their congregations firmly into church pews. Besides being propaganda, these tales not only provided propaganda for Catholic and Protestant churches, but also served as a convenient venue with which to express their own desperately repressed projections.}
Set in repressively Puritanical 1826 New England, Joseph {who resembles "Rocky" from RHPS} and Faith are just a couple in love, but he is also desired by her sister Hope, who will do anything to attain his affections, including making a deal with The Devil, if that's what it takes. But the rift has already begun when they are caught kissing by 'father', who whips Faith within an inch of her life, admonishing that she stand naked before "God" and read the bible, after calling her a harlot, and he a lecher.
Hope's request does not go unheeded, while agonizing in the forest, The Devil proclaims "Don't give up, 'Hope'", and appears as a hirsute, lascivious man with an elongated appendage in make-up that could be a cross between King Diamond's and Gene Simmons', with slicked hair forming a widow's peak and horns, wearing nothing but a cape, studded gauntlets, collar, and boots. Overall, resembling what could be a demonic Frank-N-Furter. Transforming into the form of Joseph, and to her self-deceptive trepidation, he takes Faith into the pinnacles of ecstasy.
Hope visits the village Witch at her hovel for advice, a pocked hag of a woman who mixes up a potion of love for her {containing some of the classical disgusting Shakespearian ingredients such as "bat's eyes", "lizard's tongue", "the puss from a dying virgin", "bone dust of a pilgrim lecher", "the menstrual fluid of a Persian Harlot", "the sweat of a goat", "the blood of a fresh-killed toad", and the final ingredient that makes it all work, the "love juice of Nicodemus" {she turns her parrot into a "wood sprite", a salacious man with no seed of his own, but is filled with a collection of that essence "spilled by naughty disobedient boys"}, which must be drawn from "the human snake that grows to fill the void", which lets forth its bounty into the bowl. After she leaves with a vial of the potion {in which she will "see her lover in her own eyes"; so of course, The Devil later takes advantage of this}, He then emerges wherein the crone collects her reward from his thorn.
In the process, she utters some zingers like, "Is it not the evil in the world that makes good seem duller than it is? That frightened fathers send dry girls to seek My kind of truth..."
Next, He takes the form of Faith and seduces Joseph, while Hope has a fruit and vegetable salad. Then it really gets disturbing when 'father' gets into the action. Of course, one can tell who The Devil takes the form of by the blue eyeliner each of the characters wear and Hope now seems fulfilled and liberated from sanctimonious guilt.
Distressed, Faith seeks solace with mother, who inspects her to see if her hymen is still intact. Supposedly, if her suspicions are correct, that Joseph seemed "possessed", if it was a demon, then she should still be intact. But when 'father' spots himself consorting with Hope, the illusion is shattered, and is attacked by hell hounds. After the inspection, turns out she is still a virgin; but then The Devil appears and transforms again for another rather disturbing scenario... then it's off to The Witch's Sabbath!
When Hope is whisked away in a puff of red smoke, father and Joseph team up, and armed with wooden crosses, scour the forest in search of it. Cut to extensive scenes of deviant merry-making, 'neath lunar, red and amber light, where almost every conceivable orgiastic perversion is enacted as described by paranoid superstition, including the infamous 'Besse Infame', and much, much more. At one point, a woman is multiply-mounted until they are what appears to be one copulating beast. Now, the so-called "sacrifice" is prepared, which is not an actual killing, but actually a symbolic term to signify the introduction of this maiden into the pleasures of the flesh. But before this, Joseph and father' find the spot, and rescuing Faith, are met with a defiant Hope exclaiming, "Go 'F' yourself in Heaven! You have ruined it all with your cocks of impurity! I'll cut your balls off! Especially Joseph's!...
When admonished to rebuke Satan, she further proclaims, "Never! I'll eat My own sh*t before I renounce My Lord, and Master of all desire!" At which point she perishes when the cross is applied... or did she? The ending scene features The Devil gazing up, as if talking to "God", observing that if he was as prompt at answering prayers as Ol' Nick was, then there would not be so much trouble; at which point he envelops Hope in his cape and escorts her to meet with the rest of the "flock".
Devil Inside Her seems to be a combination of Young Goodman Brown and The Blood on Satan's Claw, though overall, this piece of celluloid could very well be described as "shock porn".
Set in repressively Puritanical 1826 New England, Joseph {who resembles "Rocky" from RHPS} and Faith are just a couple in love, but he is also desired by her sister Hope, who will do anything to attain his affections, including making a deal with The Devil, if that's what it takes. But the rift has already begun when they are caught kissing by 'father', who whips Faith within an inch of her life, admonishing that she stand naked before "God" and read the bible, after calling her a harlot, and he a lecher.
Hope's request does not go unheeded, while agonizing in the forest, The Devil proclaims "Don't give up, 'Hope'", and appears as a hirsute, lascivious man with an elongated appendage in make-up that could be a cross between King Diamond's and Gene Simmons', with slicked hair forming a widow's peak and horns, wearing nothing but a cape, studded gauntlets, collar, and boots. Overall, resembling what could be a demonic Frank-N-Furter. Transforming into the form of Joseph, and to her self-deceptive trepidation, he takes Faith into the pinnacles of ecstasy.
Hope visits the village Witch at her hovel for advice, a pocked hag of a woman who mixes up a potion of love for her {containing some of the classical disgusting Shakespearian ingredients such as "bat's eyes", "lizard's tongue", "the puss from a dying virgin", "bone dust of a pilgrim lecher", "the menstrual fluid of a Persian Harlot", "the sweat of a goat", "the blood of a fresh-killed toad", and the final ingredient that makes it all work, the "love juice of Nicodemus" {she turns her parrot into a "wood sprite", a salacious man with no seed of his own, but is filled with a collection of that essence "spilled by naughty disobedient boys"}, which must be drawn from "the human snake that grows to fill the void", which lets forth its bounty into the bowl. After she leaves with a vial of the potion {in which she will "see her lover in her own eyes"; so of course, The Devil later takes advantage of this}, He then emerges wherein the crone collects her reward from his thorn.
In the process, she utters some zingers like, "Is it not the evil in the world that makes good seem duller than it is? That frightened fathers send dry girls to seek My kind of truth..."
Next, He takes the form of Faith and seduces Joseph, while Hope has a fruit and vegetable salad. Then it really gets disturbing when 'father' gets into the action. Of course, one can tell who The Devil takes the form of by the blue eyeliner each of the characters wear and Hope now seems fulfilled and liberated from sanctimonious guilt.
Distressed, Faith seeks solace with mother, who inspects her to see if her hymen is still intact. Supposedly, if her suspicions are correct, that Joseph seemed "possessed", if it was a demon, then she should still be intact. But when 'father' spots himself consorting with Hope, the illusion is shattered, and is attacked by hell hounds. After the inspection, turns out she is still a virgin; but then The Devil appears and transforms again for another rather disturbing scenario... then it's off to The Witch's Sabbath!
When Hope is whisked away in a puff of red smoke, father and Joseph team up, and armed with wooden crosses, scour the forest in search of it. Cut to extensive scenes of deviant merry-making, 'neath lunar, red and amber light, where almost every conceivable orgiastic perversion is enacted as described by paranoid superstition, including the infamous 'Besse Infame', and much, much more. At one point, a woman is multiply-mounted until they are what appears to be one copulating beast. Now, the so-called "sacrifice" is prepared, which is not an actual killing, but actually a symbolic term to signify the introduction of this maiden into the pleasures of the flesh. But before this, Joseph and father' find the spot, and rescuing Faith, are met with a defiant Hope exclaiming, "Go 'F' yourself in Heaven! You have ruined it all with your cocks of impurity! I'll cut your balls off! Especially Joseph's!...
When admonished to rebuke Satan, she further proclaims, "Never! I'll eat My own sh*t before I renounce My Lord, and Master of all desire!" At which point she perishes when the cross is applied... or did she? The ending scene features The Devil gazing up, as if talking to "God", observing that if he was as prompt at answering prayers as Ol' Nick was, then there would not be so much trouble; at which point he envelops Hope in his cape and escorts her to meet with the rest of the "flock".
Devil Inside Her seems to be a combination of Young Goodman Brown and The Blood on Satan's Claw, though overall, this piece of celluloid could very well be described as "shock porn".
Bizarre fantasy porn flick.
The_Void31 August 2007
The Devil Inside Her mixes fantasy with porn, and the results are somewhat mixed. On the one hand, the film is completely bizarre and the sex is fairly hardcore - which is definitely to it's credit, but on the other hand, the plot sometimes gets a bit too silly, and this kind of makes the sex less easy to get on with and by the time the film reaches the halfway point, it starts to fall to bits. The plot is simple like most porn films, and focuses on two girls who are lusting over the same man. Faith is in love with Joseph, the gardener, but her father forbids it - believing the gardener not to be worthy. However, her sister Hope is also after him, and turns to the Devil to help her
It would seem that Zebedy Colt, after the fairly imaginative opening, completely ran out of ideas by the time it came to the end - as the film pretty much degenerates into a mass orgy. Not that I have a problem with that, but it does come as being a bit on the wrong side of inventive after what went before it. Overall, I can't say that I rate The Devil Inside Her as one of my favourite porn flicks; but it's not too bad overall, and some fans may get a kick out of it.
Genuinely Surprising.
gavcrimson2 May 2000
A genuinely surprising `Adults Only' horror movie, The Devil Inside Her is more likely to give potential late night viewers nightmares rather than a cheap thrill. In 1826 New England, the two daughters of a repressed farmer (played by director Colt) secretly fawn over a blonde farmhand. The farmer finds out about the farmhand's relationship with the younger daughter and fires him, then punishes the younger daughter. Meanwhile the older daughter, secretly in love with the farmhand hopes to win him back by invoking the Devil with the help of a forest witch. As befits a film of the genre the Devil magically has his wicked way with most of the cast, disguising himself as various family members (both male and female) with only Devil eye make-up to give away his identity. No wonder that `Zebedy Colt' was the well guarded pseudonym of a on/ off Broadway actor. Most of Colt's directing work sets about documenting the psychosis of the seedier side of life in the 1970's- female vigilantes in Terry's Sweet Revenge (1975) urban stalkers in Sex Wish (1975), The Devil Inside Her would appear to be his only movie with either fantasy elements or a period setting. Although it will never be mistaken for anything other than a rough around the edges exploitation movie The Devil Inside Her is well shot and the budget high enough to capture the feel of 18th century New England. All the more surprising when you realise that producer Leon De Leon is aka Leonard Kirtman, director of Carnival of Blood, surely one of the most cash strapped horror movies ever released to theatres. It's not all great though, the Devil scenes, the backbone of the film are hit and miss. The Devil's attack on the farmer's wife climaxing with him bellowing smoke, and a vision of hell that other movies daren't even think about are terrifying and hard to forget. Unfortunately for all the nice period settings Colt's monster is a creature of 1976 rather than 1826. Dressed in a dog collar, a cape and overdone face paint, for all the build up he's less the Prince of Darkness than a drunk Kiss groupie whose friends have stolen his clothes and left him in a new England field. Likewise some may gasp at the primitive special effects of people disappearing into puffs of smoke that resemble a crude magic show, but personally I think this only adds to the film's low budget charm. As wild and shocking as open minded 70's `sinema' demanded. Lovers of the most outrageous exploitation films and cult film fare should seek The Devil Inside Her out as for students of the cinema of the sensational this is great stuff, the mere curious however should run from this faster than you can say `Filth Hounds of Hades'.
An Allegory of the American Sexual Revolution
jaibo9 August 2009
Warning: Spoilers
This frankly weird item from the Golden Age of Porn is undoubtedly one of the most punishing and difficult watches in the history of cinema. The film continues a tradition begun by Damiano's (much better) The Devil in Miss Jones of fusing hardcore pornography with devilment – two great obsessions of 1970s cinemas (occultism and sex) fusing together in ways which are beyond the pale of anything a mainstream filmmaker would dare, and taking the audience to places that most of us would never really care to go.
The setting is New England in 1826, and the story tells of two sisters Faith and Hope– daughters of a strict Puritan father – who are both in love with a strapping orphan named Joseph. Joseph loves goody-goody Faith back, but when her father catches them canoodling, all hell breaks loose. Old pop forbids them from ever seeing each other again and gives his daughter a naked whipping for good measure. The course of true love has once again not run smooth.
The plot is then complicated by the other sister, Hope, having a fit of lust for her sister's beau. Hope swears that she would sell her soul to anyone, God or the Devil, in order to get Joseph. Of course, the first to answer her prayers is the horny Devil, who appears with a face painted like a cheap Kiss rip-off and who casts a spell of agreement by twisting and twirling his tackle in the most obscene fashion imaginable. He then manages to shape-shift and rapes Faith in the form of Joseph, copulates with the craven Hope in both Joseph's form and her father (the girl, in the grip of a witches' love potion by now, happily acquiesces to blandishments in the shape of both her desired lover and her Dad) and seduces Joseph in the shape of Faith. Before long, the characters work out that evil occult forces are afoot and Dad & Joseph have to rescue Faith before she is sacrificed at a witches' Sabbath.
How anyone could find any of the sex in the film appealing is beyond me. The copulation, with the usual meat-shots by accompanied by the foulest of gestures and grimaces, makes sex appear as disgusting and demeaning as possible. The witches Sabbath – a cinematic orgy of obscenity and graphic copulation if there ever was one – climaxes the film in a way such as to suggest that an amateur off-Broadway Living Theatre type troupe of hippy players had actually managed to raise Satan from his chains and get him to direct a Happening. It is both deeply slapdash and deeply disturbing at the same time.
The film has some good ideas. The basic plot of the Devil changing shape and confusing the characters has elements of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream about it (and let's not forget that the Bard's play is about the kidnap of a small boy for illicit purposes and the sexual congress of the queen of the fairies with a donkey); there's a scene with a witch (who is strangely reminiscent of Mink Stole in the later part of John Waters' Desperate Living) in which Hope has to extract the semen from a wood sprite – the sprite, we are told, can produce no jism himself but what he has he has stolen from teenage boys who have "wasted" theirs in masturbation. The over-arching story is trying very consciously to suggest that the Father's rigid Puritanism opened the gates of hell as repression turns sex criminal and obscene.
Most of the characters, once the Devil has been routed, go back to their lives having achieved some change in awareness – the father rejecting his sexual intolerance and blessing Faith and Joseph's married union. Only Hope does not come home, aligning herself with the Devil in eternity now, as if the film were an allegory of the way in which sexual revolution with its revolt against 50s Puritan mores allowed some people to have a more active, married, respectable sex life whilst others committed themselves solidly to a world of rampant promiscuous outsiderdom., which they embraced and found their identity in, rejecting the God of their fathers forever. Some people, the film suggests, find and like the Devil inside them.
The setting is New England in 1826, and the story tells of two sisters Faith and Hope– daughters of a strict Puritan father – who are both in love with a strapping orphan named Joseph. Joseph loves goody-goody Faith back, but when her father catches them canoodling, all hell breaks loose. Old pop forbids them from ever seeing each other again and gives his daughter a naked whipping for good measure. The course of true love has once again not run smooth.
The plot is then complicated by the other sister, Hope, having a fit of lust for her sister's beau. Hope swears that she would sell her soul to anyone, God or the Devil, in order to get Joseph. Of course, the first to answer her prayers is the horny Devil, who appears with a face painted like a cheap Kiss rip-off and who casts a spell of agreement by twisting and twirling his tackle in the most obscene fashion imaginable. He then manages to shape-shift and rapes Faith in the form of Joseph, copulates with the craven Hope in both Joseph's form and her father (the girl, in the grip of a witches' love potion by now, happily acquiesces to blandishments in the shape of both her desired lover and her Dad) and seduces Joseph in the shape of Faith. Before long, the characters work out that evil occult forces are afoot and Dad & Joseph have to rescue Faith before she is sacrificed at a witches' Sabbath.
How anyone could find any of the sex in the film appealing is beyond me. The copulation, with the usual meat-shots by accompanied by the foulest of gestures and grimaces, makes sex appear as disgusting and demeaning as possible. The witches Sabbath – a cinematic orgy of obscenity and graphic copulation if there ever was one – climaxes the film in a way such as to suggest that an amateur off-Broadway Living Theatre type troupe of hippy players had actually managed to raise Satan from his chains and get him to direct a Happening. It is both deeply slapdash and deeply disturbing at the same time.
The film has some good ideas. The basic plot of the Devil changing shape and confusing the characters has elements of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream about it (and let's not forget that the Bard's play is about the kidnap of a small boy for illicit purposes and the sexual congress of the queen of the fairies with a donkey); there's a scene with a witch (who is strangely reminiscent of Mink Stole in the later part of John Waters' Desperate Living) in which Hope has to extract the semen from a wood sprite – the sprite, we are told, can produce no jism himself but what he has he has stolen from teenage boys who have "wasted" theirs in masturbation. The over-arching story is trying very consciously to suggest that the Father's rigid Puritanism opened the gates of hell as repression turns sex criminal and obscene.
Most of the characters, once the Devil has been routed, go back to their lives having achieved some change in awareness – the father rejecting his sexual intolerance and blessing Faith and Joseph's married union. Only Hope does not come home, aligning herself with the Devil in eternity now, as if the film were an allegory of the way in which sexual revolution with its revolt against 50s Puritan mores allowed some people to have a more active, married, respectable sex life whilst others committed themselves solidly to a world of rampant promiscuous outsiderdom., which they embraced and found their identity in, rejecting the God of their fathers forever. Some people, the film suggests, find and like the Devil inside them.
Should have been more fun
Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki5 June 2013
Psychedelic coloured paint swirling before the camera in the title sequence seems outdated, even by 1977's standards. Sheep grazing, and cheeseball-looking font seem like something out of a sappy postcard. This is not exactly giving me very much hope for this one, either as a horror or porn flick.
In 1826, a farmer chick loves/ lusts for the family gardener. Pops is against their union, and her sister is after the guy, also. So she sells her soul to the devil, in trade for the gardener. The "devil" looks to have just returned from a KISS concert, and has not yet removed his makeup, or dog collar.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this yawner is that, despite being set it 1826, women wear eyeliner, men wear denim jackets and (then) modern cowboy boots, I even saw a wristwatch in one scene. Most scenes were filmed as wide angel master shots, with some zooming in and out for annoying effect.
Faith, Hope, and the devil, and nudity all together in one porno/ horror flick should have resulted in more fun than this.
In 1826, a farmer chick loves/ lusts for the family gardener. Pops is against their union, and her sister is after the guy, also. So she sells her soul to the devil, in trade for the gardener. The "devil" looks to have just returned from a KISS concert, and has not yet removed his makeup, or dog collar.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this yawner is that, despite being set it 1826, women wear eyeliner, men wear denim jackets and (then) modern cowboy boots, I even saw a wristwatch in one scene. Most scenes were filmed as wide angel master shots, with some zooming in and out for annoying effect.
Faith, Hope, and the devil, and nudity all together in one porno/ horror flick should have resulted in more fun than this.
The Rod...
Falconeer30 April 2021
One of the dirtiest, grimiest adult films of the 70's, Zebedy Colt creates the perfect story to allow his film to absolutely WALLOW in decadent perversions of every imaginable act. The young maiden who sells her soul to the Devil in exchange for the love of her sister's man, unleashes Satan into her village circa 1628, who can take on any form, and who works his way through her entire family...it has to be seen to be believed. This film is basically a string of religious blasphemies, recreating every taboo that ever existed. Bizarre, nightmarish scenes include a father stumbling upon the naked double of himself, savagely copulating with his daughter, and a scene where the devil takes on the identity of the girl's mother, who performs cunnilingus on her daughter. It will make more conservative viewers uncomfortable, and it is an uneasy watch. Whoever wrote the screenplay was very familiar with the Bible, and scenes like when the father is attacked by the hounds of Hell after breaking Satan;s spell on his daughter..are very Biblical in nature. .It's a creepy film, with a heavy atmosphere. Good performances from Zebedy and CJ Laing, and an unforgettably decadent and perverse performance by Rod Dumont, as Satan.... Dumont had an intensely sexual energy that translated well to film, and he could have been as successful as John Holmes, if he had stayed in the business. He was the perfect choice to play the Devil. "Devil Inside Her" is an undeniably well-written and well made adult feature that will be appreciated by those who like "Through the Looking Glass," a film that examines similar perversions. And don't miss Rod Dumont in Zebedy's super-creepy "Unwilling Lovers..."
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