The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present
Lisa and the Devil
When
Wed 16 Sep 2026
Producer Alfredo Leone gave Bava complete creative control for this Gothic horror tale of a young woman (Elke Sommer) who becomes embroiled in a world of debauchery, mannequins and necrophilia when she shelters in a mansion belonging to a blind Countess (Alida Valli) and her son.
After a disastrous initial screening, the film was never released theatrically in Italy and was subject to a string of re-edits. Reappraised for its evocative wide-angle colour cinematography and hallucinatory imagery, it is now considered by many to be amongst Bava’s most personal and daring works. With Telly Savalas.
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