I've been duped. With a title like Exorcism's Daughter, I was expecting another Euro rip-off of The Exorcist, complete with a foul-mouthed possessed woman spewing green vomit. That's not what I got.

This film was retitled to cash in on the success of William Friedkin's 1973 horror blockbuster, but the original title, Las Melancólicas (The Melancholic),is far more apt: it's a dreary, depressing tale about a liberal doctor (Rafael Alba, played by Espartaco Santoni) at a rural asylum trying to cure a woman (Analía Gadé) of her madness via progressive methods, and it's incredibly boring to boot.

I have my suspicions that the film is allegorical, with the untrusting townsfolk and brutal asylum guard Fuso (Francisco Rabal) representing Franco's military dictatorship, the insane women representing the oppressed Spanish people, and Alba representing the voice of reason. Or something like that. I'm no expert in the history of Spanish politics-I wanted spinning heads, not hysterical women screaming for almost two hours about wanting freedom.

Tania, an asylum patient, is under the doctor's care while suffering raging behavioral effects that follow the death of her exorcised mother.

Who knew Spain made these movies in the 70s?

The titles are a la James Bond, but that's where the similarity ends.

Very cheaply made and the print has turned red with age so it makes for some hard watching..

Plus I saw this on Roku and you forced to sit through annoying McDonalds commercials -- the same ones over and over again-- every 12 minutes. What a downer.

The film itself is slow and boring and is not exploitative enough to be of interest to fans of the genre.

How far can you go looking at strange celluloid material, like this movie? It does better at being melodramatic than stupefyingly horrific, which explains how I ran into this title called EXORCISM'S DAUGHTER (U.S. title). Despite the misleading name, there is still reason to go nuts. This may be one of the most warped out experiences you can ever step into. Set in the 19th century time period, you're still looking at another drive-in flick where nothing possibly goes right. The biggest focus concerns bitchy asylum patients in plain cloth, played by inexperienced women without a union. They're really good at banging utensils on the dinner table, making sense. There's something so strange about Tania's character. What's going on, and why does she go bananas? The answer provides a special flashback that is the only horrific scenario about this wicked masterpiece of insanity.

The movie is worth noting on two important things. One is that it's a very early asylum - exorcism feature. Two is an actor named Francisco Rabal, who appeared in the recently discovered foreign film classic BELLE DE JOUR. A horror movie it sure ain't, but you might as well be flying over the cuckoo's nest and having a ball with this one. Unless you can stand the pure aggravation of things to come...