When Lisa, an American tourist in Spain, sees the image of a bald, grinning devil in an ancient fresco, she wanders away from her group and finds herself drawn into the mansion of a blind countess. However, when the countess’ son notices Lisa’s resemblance to his dead lover, he pursues her.

The films of Mario Bava have always been preoccupied with dream states, and here’s where this fascination finds full, baroque bloom. An erotic, late-career masterwork starring a Mephistophelian Telly Savalas, Lisa and the Devil takes a hallucinatory, oneiric plunge into the supernatural unconscious.