L’UOMO, LA DONNA E LA BESTIA: SPELL (DOLCE MATTATOIO)
(“Man, Woman And Beast: Spell (Sweet Slaughterhouse)”)
Production: Italy, 1977
Director: Alberto Cavallone
Category: Experimental/Scatology
A rooster, skulls, bones, eggs, a graveyard, a mute madwoman drinking from a filthy toilet bowl, anatomical drawings, a cow giving birth, images of death, adolescent breasts and buttocks, a butcher raping and licking an animal carcass, self-mutilation, religious iconography, communist party regalia, female nudity, children’s games, domestic abuse, fireworks, a deranged puppet show, billiard balls fired at a woman’s vagina, drinking and card games, nude dancing and oral sex, painted faces and pubic hair, flashing lights, a teenager pregnant by her own father, prostitution, police corruption, death by hanging, sex with a priest, pornographic and surrealist art, masturbation, copulation, adultery, homoerotic wrestling, animal slaughter and evisceration juxtaposed with female orgasm, violence, rape and raw meat, a cow’s eyeball inserted into a vagina, male nudity, analingus, and a madwoman defecating into a man’s mouth whilst viciously stabbing him in the genitals; Cavallone’s Spell, set in a small Catholic village during religious festival, is a concatenation of lurid, bizarre and sexually deranged images set to a psychedelic soundtrack, a revelation of society’s diseased underbelly and the psychosexual manias that fester beneath the facade of community and church.
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L’UOMO, LA DONNA E LA BESTIA: SPELL (DOLCE MATTATOIO)
