Spell – Sweet Abattoir) is a 1977 Italian film directed by Alberto Cavallone.

The sequence with Mónica Zanchi lying on the pool table with her legs spread (her vulva is explicitly seen) was shot in a real bar, very unwillingly; the actress demanded the presence only of the male actor and a cameraman.

The Man, the Woman and the Beast) to capitalize on the popularity of Walerian Borowczyk's La Bête.

[5] Cavallone commented on the re-titling of the film as "very irritating" and that the re-release was "definitely a shitty title.

"[5] In contemporary reviews, Leonardo Autera of Corriere della Sera stated that the film was "redundant, clunky, and amateurishly acted and ultimately, lacking any semblance of style"[6][7]