Ring of Darkness (Un ombra nell'ombra) (1979) 
Parenting 101: You only really have yourself to blame when your once loving, polite, well-mannered offspring starts showing signs of being possessed if you, yourself have engaged in a tryst with Lucifer.
Still, that doesn't prevent Carlotta Rhodes expressing shock and surprise when her daughter starts upsetting the status quo at home and at school, having frequent strops, throwing stuff about and maiming her class-mates and killing her teachers.
Perhaps a victim of the dubbing, but our dear little Daria is a far cry from
The Omen's Damien or
The Exorcist's Reagan (which are the film's main reference points); there's no big evil dogs, soiling of carpets, head-swivelling projectile-vomiting madness or cross-masturbation. She is instead, to be quite frank, a bit of an annoying brat (she'll surely be going to hell for knocking all those things off tables all the time though!...). She does channel a Damien vibe on occasions, exhibiting a cold, calculated calmness and driving people to madness, fear and suicide with her penetrating gaze and good manners - more of a case of "your mother sups tea in hell" than "sucks cocks". She is also someone you don’t want to get too close to as evidenced when she burns her hand-print into a class-mates chest.
The main pluses for me here were the sumptuous Stelvio Cipriani/Claudio Simonetti score and a final act that builds in some delightful witchiness, chanting, and choppy editing, which together kind of make up for some of the (at times) sluggish nature and teenage angst of the preceding events. You also can't fail to escape the vein of icy menace which runs throughout this one, which only aids to captivate.
57/100