Hypnosis, forbidden desire, and torment inside a Spanish women’s asylum.
EXORCISM'S DAUGHTER
When There's No Place Left To Go... YOU CAN ALWAYS GO MAD.
Tania, an asylum patient, is under the doctor's care while suffering raging behavioral effects that follow the death of her exorcised mother.
Quick Answer
Exorcism's Daughter is a 1971 Spanish drama-horror film directed by Rafael Moreno Alba about a doctor who tries to cure a traumatized woman in an asylum using hypnosis, facing suspicion and resistance from the community.
Programmer's Pick
Spanish giallo meets women-in-prison fever dream, where hypnosis is as controversial as desire. Rafael Moreno Alba turns the asylum into a battleground for science, superstition, and slow-burn psychosexual tension.
— SassyFlix Programmer
Overview
Details & Specs
- Director
- Rafael Moreno Alba
- Writer
- Rafael Moreno Alba
- Release
- 1971
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Country
- Spain
- Language
- Spanish
- Also Known As
- La fille de l'exorciste, As Melancólicas, Aberrazioni sessuali in un penitenziario femminile, Exorcism's Daughter, Women of Doom, House of Insane Women, Original title: Las melancólicas
Cast & Crew
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Why Cult
The film channels giallo’s sinister mood and visual style within a Spanish setting, mixing psychotronic flourishes with institutional dread.
Expect a heady mix of institutional cruelty, obsession, and female camaraderie, set against the backdrop of a women’s asylum.
The drama hinges on a doctor’s faith in hypnosis as a controversial cure, clashing with the superstitions of the era.
Themes of forbidden desire, lesbianism, and trauma simmer beneath the surface, making this more than your standard asylum chiller.
Scene Gallery
Threat File
Doctor’s hypnosis experiments
Institutional cruelty and superstition
Tania’s continued suffering and loss of hope
Spanish women’s asylum
Questions from the Vault
When was Exorcism's Daughter released? +
Exorcism's Daughter was released in 1971.
Who directed Exorcism's Daughter? +
Exorcism's Daughter was directed by Rafael Moreno Alba.
How long is Exorcism's Daughter? +
Exorcism's Daughter has a runtime of 110 minutes.
What genre is Exorcism's Daughter? +
Exorcism's Daughter is a drama and horror film.
How is hypnosis received in the asylum? +
Hypnosis is viewed with suspicion and hostility by both the asylum’s leadership and the surrounding townspeople, who consider it akin to witchcraft and ultimately have Dr. Alba dismissed before his treatments can succeed.
What trauma haunts Tania? +
Tania is tormented by the loss of her mother, who died after an exorcism, fueling her psychological struggles within the asylum.
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