Really Awful Movies: Ep 432 – Demonia

Fulci lives! Today on the Really Awful Movies podcast, the underseen, Lucio Fulci directed and co-written feature, Demonia.

A mob of villagers attacks five nuns in 15th century Sicily. Liza, an archeological grad student in Toronto, of all places, has vision of this disturbing event via a séance centuries later.

Soon, Liza and a University of Toronto professor are off to Italy for an archeological dig. What could possibly go wrong?

On the show:

  • Toronto as a scene setting for horror
  • Séances in Fulci films
  • 90s-era Fulci
  • The “eyes” have it. Ocular trauma in the Italian director’s oeuvre
  • Nunsploitation and genre bending
  • “Irish” characters in Demonia