cult film freak: MERCEDES MOLINA & PAUL NASCHY 'EXORCISM' WITH MARÍA KOSTY

Mercedes Molina in EXORCISM/EXORCISMO Year: 1975 Rating: ***

Blonde-haired, full-lipped, wide-eyed, girl-next-door starlet María Kosty's second EXORCIST clone from 1975 where she has a bigger part than the cameo from Amando de Ossorio's DEMON WITCH CHILD, here as the slightly older sister of the token possessed girl who's no child this time, but tall, lithe and lovely ingenue Mercedes Molina...

She gets possessed during an opening sequence orgy that seems like the rudimentary beach party in JAWS only with naked hippies worshiping idols... the inner demon mimicking her late father, a wealthy scoundrel who wasn't friendly with classy-hot mom Maria Perschy, even prettier than her extremely pretty daughters...

Mercedes Molina in EXORCISM/EXORCISMO

Spain's very own Peter Cushing/Christopher Lee in co-writer/producer Paul Naschy, who played every monster in the book, takes the passive mantle as a priest patiently attempting to subdue and ultimately exorcise the possessed Molina, who goes through the usual EXORCIST tropes of swearing, vomiting... and in this case, being of age, attempting to seduce the good father (as Linda Blair would Richard Burton in THE EXORCIST 2)...

Naschy's an EXORCIST hybrid of young priest Jason Miller and older muse Max Von Sydow, but doesn't have a lot of motivation beyond merely consoling the central family worried about their daughter/sister, who was actually a promiscuous black sheep before the demonic transition: providing a kind of 1970's drive-in/hot-chick exploitation that even Britain's Hammer Films had been relying on.