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Doctor William Benson (Stelio Candelli) is driving to see a patient when he almost runs down a woman, who promptly disappears. While looking for the mysterious lady, he hears a crash. Investigating, he finds a beautiful woman (who we later learn is named Susan) unconscious in her car. The doc goes for help, happening upon a nearby castle, where he runs into several strangers, including a lady (who we later learn is named Evelyn) who is the exact likeness of Susan. Meanwhile, Susan arrives at the castle where she runs into Peter, who is the exact likeness of William. Much confusion follows (for the characters and the viewer). Susan and Evelyn (both played by Rita Calderoni) get naked a lot, as does a mysterious servant girl (Iolanda Mascitti) who pops up to indulge in lesbian sex and be flogged by a butler (Renato Lupi, whose blacked-out 'missing teeth' are not in the slightest bit convincing).

As its title suggests, Euro-horror Nude for Satan features lots of T&A, kicking off immediately with a pre-credits scene in which a naked woman runs in slow motion through a foggy wood. Once William has entered the castle, there's a steady stream of nudity, mostly courtesy of Calderoni, who has a splendid set of breasts and a wild '70s bush. Writer/director Luigi Batzella's trippy story and surreal visuals result in a film that is largely incomprehensible, and not even the copious amount of skin on show can prevent it from being a colossal snoozefest. A bizarre scene where Susan falls into a massive spider web and is terrorised by a pipe-cleaner arachnid is hilariously bad, but outstays its welcome, the spider inching slowly closer and closer to the screaming woman (who does well not to burst into fits of giggles).

For his final act, Batzella gets seriously arty, with lots of slow motion dancing from a couple of scrawny naked chicks and two blokes painted blue on one side. None of it makes a jot of sense. A copout 'It was all a dream, or was it?'-style ending wraps up this sorry mess.

Another classic from the director of SS Hell Camp and The Devil's Wedding Night.

Writer and director Luigi Badzella doesn't waste time on plot. Instead he focuses on such beauty as Rita Calderoni. There is a plot, if you are interested.

It seems that Dr. Benson (Stelio Candelli) and Susan Smith (Rita Calderoni), a woman he found in an accident, have a dark side. They are Evelyn (Calderoni) and Peter (Candelli), who reside in Satan's (James Harris) castle.

OK, you have a story, but I'm sure you are here to see how many get nude for Satan. They do that so much that you can make a drinking game out of it.

There is weird music, horny spiders, and people getting nude for Satan.

Several times while watching 'Nude For Satan' I had to pinch myself. Am I REALLY watching this or has someone spiked my drink?! Dario Argento fans often claim that his PLOTS aren't the most important things in his movies, rather it's his ability to manipulate mood and atmosphere, and his films are best approached as dreams, or better yet, nightmares. Luigi Batzella obviously feels the same way, but comparing him to Argento is over-doing it. Argento meets Ray Dennis Steckler is more like it! 'Nude For Satan' is CHEAP, it doesn't make much sense if you analyse it too much, but it is jam-packed with nudity and bargain-basement surrealism, and to my mind, is classic horror-trash that works on so many levels that your mind will boggle!

Leave your brain at the door (but not your libido!), enter Batzella's house of fun, you're in for an unforgettable time! Be careful of the doppelgangers, spooky paintings that come to life, and a TERRIFYING (well...) giant spider, and maybe you too will end up 'Nuda per Satana'!

I've seen many of these 70's Satanic Vampire Lesbian Laden Castle romps, but this is one of the worst. It starts off interestingly enough. There's some good atmosphere, a creepy castle, terrified townsfolk - all the usual stuff. Once they get inside the castle, it turns into a hazy incoherent naked mess. What elevates sleaze like this to being enjoyable is a cast that weave their dreamlike spell over you and keep you interested. But "Nude For Satan" has no Helga Line, Rosalba Neri or Soledad Miranda. Instead we've got a lame "Dracula" who makes the magician at your kids' birthday party look horrifying and a giant paper mache spider that makes your neighbor's Halloween decoration look terrifying, by comparison. I couldn't make it all the way through.

A man stops at a castle to get help for a woman he just discovered at a car crash. He is greeted at the door by someone who looks exactly like the woman.

Pretty poor, even by the low standards of 70s exploitation-horror. Random, farcical plot. Jumbled direction. Weak performances. Some laughable special effects (the giant spider...). Really has nothing going for it.

Undoubtedly the key word to fully describe "Nude for Satan" is … RANDOM! The film opens with images of a girl randomly running through the woods naked, but there's absolutely no connection with the events later depicted in the story. After the opening credits, a male doctor and a ravishing female randomly crash their car on an open road and they both end up – once again … randomly – in an old ramshackle castle inhabited by no less than Satan himself and a couple of His sex-orientated disciples. The doctor and the women are both enticed by doppelgangers (have some random sex in the meantime) and it takes them quite a long time before they realize they're trapped inside a nightmarishly psychedelic and satanic paradox. Then later in the film, and purely for reasons of padding, there are random sequences involving a hilariously fake giant spider and the doctor aimlessly running through the caste's gardens. Now we all know that sleazy (Italian) 70's exploitation movies are not so much about substance but mainly about style, but Luigi Batzella really exaggerates here. I challenge anyone to find a movie is more confusing and pointless than "Nude for Satan" and, besides, it's not even that stylish or trippy as it hopes to be. What the film does offer plenty, however, is gratuitous sleaze and nudity. The DVD version I own, a brand new fancy Dutch release, even has X-rated footage (randomly, héhé) edited into the story. This is quite a hilarious sight, as the actresses as well as the decors obviously differ from the rest. But even without the pointless adult material "Nude for Satan" is super-sleazy stuff. Main starlet Rita Caldana walks around for half of the movie with one of her breasts hanging out of her top, but it doesn't seem to bother her at all. Then there also is some slightly more tasteful lesbian action and the movie ends in a gigantic orgy. Lovely, ain't it? The horror elements in "Nude for Satan" fail miserably. The aforementioned paper-mâché spider looks like a big potato with straws for legs and red berries for eyes. It doesn't move its legs, yet it "frightfully" approaches the poor dame in distress. I wouldn't recommend watching this film unless you're an avid fanatic regarding 'lost' cult treasures of the rancid 70's, and even then it isn't priority viewing. Mindless, undemanding fun for sick puppies like myself.

could somebody PLEASE tell me what the plot of this film is all about?

OK, I gathered from the synopsis that it was about two weary travellers who stop off at a creepy castle for help, and they get into bother. Other than that, though, the film made absolutely NO sense whatsoever.

'Nude for Satan' just comes across as a rather pathetic excuse for loads of soft-porn love-in sessions.

The production design itself was very reasonable (apart from the odd dodgy special effects, and wobbly bedpost)

At one point, I was practically falling asleep while watching this film.

A similar movie, 'Bloodsucker leads the dance' is far superior in comparison (by the way, if you've seen "Bloodsucker Leads The Dance", you'll have noticed that the very same sets used in "Nude For Satan" also appear in that film).

The only thing to recommend this film is a highly atmospheric music score, otherwise, this is certainly one film I certainly wouldn't go out of my way for!!

This is one strange movie, from floating images of Greek statues to flashy images in a picture frame. This movie was not the most entertaining movie to sit down and watch, I had to wake my boyfriend up several times not to fall asleep but it was worth watching if not for the strangeness of the film I would not have enjoyed it as much. Most of the movie is pure nude soft porn acting with a little creepiness thrown in especially the decayed toothed butler that really gave me the creeps, ohhh I can still see those teeth! but if your not into a lot of nudity and your bothered with the whole film spoken in Italian with English sub titles then this movie is not for you. It does however remind me of the movie "Carnival of Souls" in a way that the driver of the vehicle was not supposed to have dies in a crash when he had almost hit a silhouette figure in a white nightgown off the road and soon after a lady had also had an unfortunate accident with a far lesser fate than his. Weird movie though.

This drive-in rarity is perhaps best enjoyed in the same style as Mystery Science Theatre 3000.

Plot: Alternately silly and confusing. A doctor suffers a minor car accident, then, strangely enough, a young lady has a car accident right next to him. He goes for help at the conveniently-nearby spOOky castle. Strangeness ensues. Dialog: Originally in Italian. On the DVD version, you get your choice of dubbing and subtitles. Both are bizarre and occasionally howlingly funny.

Special Effects: Mostly performed by shaking the camera. A few smokepots. A monster that is about as lame as Ed Wood's giant octopus from "Bride of the Monster."

Music: You got the synthesizer AND the bongos, but no wocka-wocka guitars or plinked wires. Thankfully, no moaning.

Vampiric lesbianism? Of course. It's required in movies like

this.

Female nudity? Yes, since the plot *absolutely*required* that the female lead wander about the castle and its exterior in either a towel wrap, a negligee, or nothing at all.

Male nudity? A short special-guest appearance by the half-red-and-half-blue guys from Star Trek (or their poor cousins) in thong loincloths.

Sex? Eh, barely as racy as your typical R Rated Motel Fare.

Gross? Hardly.

Funny? Often,

Even though the time since I watched this piece of cinematic history fades away I feel compelled to document my personal experience with the motion picture.

Even though this film is bound by about as much storyline as the ingredients on a packet of Special K, it manages to keep the mild interest of the viewer through a string of scantily clad females, naked dancing and what could only be described as bouts of randomness.

The film starts off with an old fellow heading up to a castle, and I think I pretty much lost the plot from thereafter. It may be a combination of poor scripting or the fact I was rather tired at the point of watching this... in either case, I was unable to twig to the supposed outline of 'A doctor and the Devil battle for the soul of a beautiful woman'.

Another 'glueing' factor of the film is that throughout one feels compelled to keep watching in the event of anticipated intercourse. To the credit (or not) of the director, the nudity remained tasteful throughout the film.

A roller-coaster ride which keeps you coming back for more.

My husband thought it would be fun to watch a bad Halloween-type movie with some unsuspecting friends. After all, we got the DVD on our honeymoon. To Walt Disney World, no less.

But fun? Oh, dear.

Four of us were begging to be put out of our misery.

As the movie began, the first lines were in English, on the Italian language track. Thinking, "Okay, it's on the English track" we were fine. Then everyone started speaking in Italian.

Why were the first lines in English???

Unfortunately, it went downhill.

Yes, there was nudity, as the title would suggest. Yes, there was "sex", as you would imagine would happen when there is nudity. However, they seemed to be afraid of using their tongues, which really takes away from the believability of the "sex".

The movie itself was slightly less painful than gouging your eyes out with a rusty spoon, but only because of the Butler, who resembled George Washington. Occasionally he would appear in the movie and laugh at you for watching, when he wasn't whipping the required lesbian maid. As the movie pressed on, we stopped cheering for the "hero" (not that we had started), and started cheering whenever Washington made his appearance. When he wasn't on screen, we asked "Where's Washington?"

If you like Italian cinema (we don't), I hear you'll like this. If you like MST3K (we do), you'll be able to tolerate it. If you don't like either, but like torturing yourself, by all means, pick up this movie!

Films like this are rated on their style and visuals more than their plots, and that's definitely a good thing when it comes to Nude for Satan as the plot is confusing, pointless and silly; but at least director Luigi Batzella manages some striking scenes and visuals which just about make this tacky horror flick worth a look. The plot, which focuses on a man out driving, is really typical of films like this, and features clichés such as a rainy night, a stranded woman and a foreboding old castle. Naturally, it turns out that there is more to the castle than meets the eye; as the woman who greets him at the door looks exactly like the one he's just picked up, and that's just the start of it. I would describe this film as Satanism meets the lesbian vampire genre with some additional weirdness thrown in. The women are, naturally, nice to look at and the fact that there are a few lesbian sequences doesn't go down badly. The most interesting part of the film involves a woman trapped in a spider's web: I don't really have an idea what it was all about, but it looked nice and that's the most important thing. Overall, Nude for Satan is not one of the best films of this type, but unlike many; it's at least worth a look.

"Nuda Per Satana" aka. "Nude For Satan" of 1974 is a very confused little piece of Horror-Sleaze that barely makes any sense, and yet it is undeniable that the film is very stylish in its nonsensical way as only the Italians could do it. The film's storyline is doubtlessly messy and making hardly any sense, and yet it is delivered appealingly, with great camera-work, an awesome score and, not least, a very sexy female lead. The plot itself often just seems like a lame excuse to show tons of sleaze and female nudity, but it is an excuse most of my fellow Exploitation fans should willingly accept (at least I did). After a car crash, a man and a woman get somehow (don't ask how or why) stuck in an eerie castle which is infested by a very sinister host and his equally wicked servants. The result is a confusing, atmospheric and very sexed-up orgy of all kinds of sleaze (lesbian scenes, whippings, tons of female nudity,...) and delightful satanic... stuff. Director Luigi Batzella was both active as actor and director in the 70s, "Nude For Satan", which he directed, but in which he did not act is certainly the most widely known film he is associated with. The film's most convincing qualities are the nice atmosphere, the absolutely ravishing leading actress Rita Calderoni and the sublime score by Alberto Baldan Bembo, who did not compose a lot otherwise, his other career highlights being the scores to two "Emanuelle" flicks and the infamous Nazisploitation film "La Ultima Orgia Del III Reich". The acting is not exactly breathtaking, but who is going to watch a film like this one for the performances anyway. The probably best performance comes from Renato Lupi who plays an eerie butler, and James Harris is also quite good as the uncanny owner of the castle. Even though not much of an actress, sexy Rita Calderoni, who has a tendency to take her clothes off at any opportunity, is still the most convincing reason to watch the film (along with fellow exhibitionist Iolanda Mascitti, who plays a servant girl). Stelio Candelli (who was in Mario Bava's "Planet Of The Vampires" as well as Lamberto Bava's "Dèmoni") plays the male lead. I strongly recommend to watch this in Italian. The English dubbing is unspeakably terrible. Obviously, the Italian actors dubbed themselves into English, which is why everybody in the English language version has an Italian accent (admittedly, this has sort of a charm). Overall, "Nude For Satan" is a film that my fellow fans of Italian Horror, Exploitation and Eurosmut could enjoy - or could just as well miss. Honestly, I can not really recommend the film, but I could not advise anyone not to see it either. It has its qualities, but there sure is a vast amount of better stuff to discover in Italian sleaze-cinema.

I don't agree with those who say this film is just another sleaz-fest. Is it Exploitation cinema? Heck yes! But like many films of that sort, there is more to it than just showing a beautiful woman's bare bodkin. There is interesting cinematography and actual honest to goodness character development. I'm not saying there was a crime committed by shutting this film out of the Oscars, but I think it's a good film.

The lovely Rita Calderoni does a good job in her double role as Good Susan/Bad Evelyn and thank God we get to see her without being bludgeoned or maimed (al la Delerium). This is perhaps the best and most inspired work of director Batzella and is a must see for all fans of the genre.

To all the people who are babbling about how the movie had no plot,I've got words 4 things to say to you- 1.Its a Exploitation flick. 2.Its Italian Exploitation flick. 3.Its is a "classic" Italian Exploitation flick. 4.Its a Cult flick(Enjoyed by some and despised by most)

The reason i didn't give it full marks is that it doesn't have as much nudity as i wished for,but still pretty good.It has very good atmosphere which i totally love about these movies and the wooden acting also makes me happy.If i want to see great acting i would watch a Mira Nair film. The lead actress is absolutely gorgeous with a great body,and she would do great in my classic exploit collection.

This film is quite good,very dreamy,and the nudity itself quite pleasant.The spider scene staggers belief!But imagine the room is full of opium smoke,and the film makes sense immediately.Its a bit like the unreal feeling of a heavy flu,it doesnt matter whats going on,its all happening anyway.Dont expect much more than what it obviously gives,and indulge in euro-trash at its most surreal.

Lots to look at, as you would expect from an Italian film. Supernatural in theme, not much of a plot. This is not necessarily a negative thing, considering how effective if worked in Dario Argento's "Inferno". Plenty of nudity from Rita Calderoni which doesn't hurt. Somewhat similar in gonzo style (but not as frantic)to Polselli's "The Reincarnation of Isabel". Worth a look.

...definitely, but also amusing and easy to see why it is an Italian cult classic. I have it on DVD (bought with a gift card), and it is worth watching if you're interested in blatent nudity, sexuality, and a strange story with some bizarre scenes. This really is one to watch with a few friends. Fun. Classic.

A doctor and a young lady(beautiful Rita Calderoni)have just been involved in a car accident.The doctor leaves the girl at the accident scene,and runs off to a spooky castle for help.He enters the castle,and finds that it's inhabited by some laughing ghoul(most likely Satan himself).Later,the young lady goes looking for the doctor,and eventually finds her way to the same castle.However when they meet again,they find that they haven't met each other,they have meet their doppelgangers.Luigi Batzella's "Nude for Satan" is a great piece of sleazy trash.The special effects are jaw-droppingly awful(a monster spider especially comes to my mind!)and the dialogue is horrid. Still there is plenty of nudity to satisfy fans of Italian sleaze.Rita Calderoni is naked pretty often and her lesbian scenes are suitably sensual.A must-see for fans of Italian sleaze/horror!