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Cultural impact and controversy

Upon completion, the film was deemed an obscene blasphemy. Critics like Roger Ebert championed it as a masterpiece, but the establishment recoiled. The film’s infamous "Rape of Christ" sequence—where hysterical nuns desecrate a crucifix in a phantasmagoric orgy—was too much for the censors. the devils 1971 internet archive