Possessed by the success of The Exorcist, Bava's producer butchered his original version, turning it into the unspeakably bad The House of Exorcism, even adding scenes of a goop-spewing Elke Sommer. Now ...the Devil has got its due with this fully restored cut, a marvel of infernal imagemaking, melancholic and mind-boggling. Ms. Sommer arrives in a small Spanish town and is quickly lured away from safety by a baldly satanic Telly Savalas. Eventually she finds herself at the stately villa of a blind contessa and her peculiar son. Once inside the hellish home, Bava simply dispenses with reason. In this purgatory of ill-logic, identity blurs, appearance morphs, and the past pollutes the present. With startling success, Lisa and the Devil does away with reliability, instead bringing us to our senses as the real source of terror.