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11 out of 12 people found the following review useful:
Sleazy Italian possession flick., 3 December 2007
Author:
TheAgonyOfPlasma from Kokura, Japan
"La Bimba di Satana" by Mario Bianchi is actually a remake of Andrea Bianchi's supremely sleazy "Malabimba". It was shot as a hard core sex feature from the outset. There is plenty of explicit sex, perversity and full-frontal nudity in this lovely piece of Italian smut. The role of the innocent nun who is thrown into nightmare of possession plays again Mariangela Giordano, famous from "Burial Ground" and "Giallo a Venezia". There is also a little bit of zombie action, unfortunately the complete pornographic version of this piece of sleaze is probably lost forever. Still if you enjoyed "Malabimba" you can't go wrong with "La Bimba di Satana". The story of possessed Miria is just so wonderfully murky and sleazy that it truly has to be seen to be believed. She is apparently possessed by her dead mother, or her ghost, using the image of her daughter and is soon erotically enticing everyone in the castle and killing them off one by one.
7 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
Hassle in the Castle, Italian Style, 12 April 2007
Author:
Steve Nyland (Squonkamatic) from New York, USA
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
It has taken me a while to understand this Italian supernatural soap
opera from Mario Bianchi, but thanks to a new English subtitled DVD
from Kult Films of Germany it all make sense. While it may come off to
non-Italian speaking viewers as a somewhat plodding, action deprived
Gothic something-or-other, this is a pretty little perverse study in
moods & style that deserves a second look by fans of Italian horror.
The plot is deceptively simple: A wealthy dirtbag with a taste for
smack throttles his philandering wife in a fit of rage after
discovering her illicit lesbian affair with the sexy, shapely nun
employed to care for the man's invalid brother. During her funeral she
possesses the body of her sexy teenage daughter and over the course of
the film compels the girl to bring about the deaths of everyone in the
household that the woman had slept with. Which was all of them, at one
point or another, including a sinister looking butler who was
apparently dabbling in the black arts down in his private little
satanic shrine in the catacombs near the family crypt and somehow
enabled the woman's allegiance to Lucifer.
Or, something like that. Legends abound that this was originally a
full-blown hardcore sex film though the only surviving prints amount to
a roughly 72 minute (PAL 25fps: all known versions are PAL transfers)
celebration of moods and deviancy that is deceptively tame looking.
Lesbianism, necrophilia, voyeurism, incest, drug abuse, and
cold-blooded murder from beyond the grave prevail as director Bianchi
sets a deliberate, meditative pace that wallows in the film's ornate,
Gothic trappings, all of it set to a decidedly melancholy and evocative
keyboard/vocal musical score by Nico Catanese that gives it all an air
of sadness that is distinctively at odds with the rather high sleaze
quotient.
The cement that holds it all together is another standout method
performance by Spaghetti Western veteran Aldo Sanbrell as the
heroin-shooting, domineering, loyalty obsessed aristocrat who is a
living portrait of rage barely controlled. One of Sanbrell's gifts as a
genre actor has been to embody the sort of contained violence that is
always threatening to spill over and literally murder someone ...
Rumors of his tenuous grip on sanity in the real world only heighten
the pleasure of watching him with veins popping at his temples & sweat
beading on his brow as he shakes with rage. He simply looks like a man
who is capable of anything no matter how despicable, and the film's
most harrowing segment turns out to be the sequence of ingeniously
staged shots of him wheeling his invalid brother into the family crypt
to be abandoned to sit there and rot, unable to move or even call out
for help. What a guy.
Between weird, bizarrely staged killings there is sex galore, typical
of the Italian "male gaze" oriented fantasies typified by interludes of
female masturbation that are actually rather erotic for a change
without being necessarily graphic. This is one of those Italian horror
movies where women walk around completely naked or more modestly
clothed in designer lingerie made to display the female body. Even the
nun wears thigh high sheer white stockings with platform shoes more
fitting for a go-go dancer than a sister of the cloth. And the bulk of
the story is either set in the dank, crumbling catacombs or a
marvelously ornate castle that for once is spotlessly clean, well lit,
and gleaming with wealth & opulence. No cluttered cobwebby Dracula
hovel this time.
The one drawback that Americanized viewers may find in the film is it's
deliberate and meditative pacing, which to me makes it even more soap
opera like, with the widescreen camera angles filled with the trappings
of an Italian film producer's idea of the good life. All the while the
haunting, melancholy musical score wails on in the background making
this a more advanced form of a ghost story than even something like
SUSPIRIA. I wish it was even more sad and contemplative, but to each
his own.
6/10: Underrated and due for rediscovery, though for my money there
probably was no hardcore version. People just wished their was.
2 out of 2 people found the following review useful:
Stylishly Nonsensical Blend of Gothic Horror and Pornography, 6 September 2010
Author:
Benjamin Gauss from Salzburg, Austria
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
Mario Bianchi's "La Bimba Di Satana" (aka. "Orgasmo Di Satana"/"A Girl
For Satan") of 1982 appears to be a remake of Andrea Bianchi's
"Malambimba" of 1979, which I haven't yet seen. "La Bimba Di Satana" is
a peculiar mix of stylish but nonsensical occult Gothic Horror,
psychedelic music and pornography. When I started watching the uncut
long version named "Orgasmo Di Satana" I expected it to be the typical
slice of Italian Sleaze-Horror containing lesbianism, gratuitous nudity
and perversions. However, I was nonetheless surprised to see the film
suddenly include scenes of hardcore pornography after 45 minutes into
the film (though the same is the case in several other European
Exploitation productions from the early 80s).
The plot line is thin, and about as nonsensical as it gets. In an eerie
Gothic castle, the death of Maria Aguilar (Marina Hedman) is lamented
by her despotic husband, the castle owner Antonio Aguilar (Aldo
Sambrell), their innocent daughter Miria (Jacqueline Dupré), and Salo
(Mariangela Giordano), a gorgeous nun with exhibitionist and lesbian
tendencies who is taking care of Antonio's crippled brother. After her
death, however, Maria reappears within the castle walls; she seems to
have possessed her daughter, and is apparently trying to drive the
other inhabitants of the castle into death...
The plot makes little sense, and in-between the sleaze there are
several hardly endurable nonsensical scenes in which nothing happens.
However, the film is very stylishly filmed, the photography is gorgeous
and the score is great (though a bit repetitive). The stylish death
scenes are also worth a look, and in some parts, the film even gets
pretty creepy. I have been a fan of Aldo Sambrell since I first saw him
in Spaghetti Westerns years ago, and he is once again good in the role
of the over-jealous and malicious tyrant patriarch here (though the
script does not allow him to give his best). The ravishing Mariangela
Giordano is known for her roles in the nastiest of Italian Exploitation
films, including Adrea Bianchi's "Le Notti Del Terrore" (1981), in
which she had her nipple bitten off, and Mario Landi's "Giallo a
Venezia" (1979), in which she had her leg sawed off. Miss Giordano, who
plays an exhibitionist lesbian nun here, is probably the most
convincing reason to see this film. The beautiful young Jacqueline
Dupré is also nice to look at as the possessed daughter. There are tons
of gratuitous but very welcome female nudity, lesbian scenes and
softcore erotica that Eurosleaze fans should appreciate. However, I
would probably recommend to watch the 70-minute version which doesn't
contain the (rather un-erotic) hardcore scenes. If you are searching
for pornography, the internet is probably a better source than obscure
80s films like this one. The surprise effect of a movie suddenly
turning into porn promises a certain amount of fun, though.
Overall, "La Bimba Di Satana" is a mixed bag. It is definitely worth a
look for my fellow fans of sleazy Italian Exploitation cinema. Others
should probably avoid it, as they might think of it as the worst movie
ever made. It certainly is a rare film that combines style and nonsense
in such an extreme manner, however.
3 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
There is plenty of luscious flesh but too much soft core self stroking, 16 March 2011
Author:
christopher-underwood from Greenwich - London
I have wanted to see this movie ever since first seeing the wonderful poster artwork, in the eighties, featuring the red winged devil his bloodied and clawed arms around a naked girl. Well, now I have and almost wish it could have remained an unattained desire, still full of great promise. But, no, despite there being many moments of real style, beautiful, naked ladies, a wonderful setting, complete with great cloister areas, not to mention that super poster artwork, this still manages not to work. There is plenty of luscious flesh but too much soft core self stroking and ponderous, nay plodding periods of far too much incomprehensible dialogue. We care little for anybody and with so little regard paid to keeping even the simplest of story lines on track, the only word for this is inept.
3 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
Pervy, but slow and confusing., 20 August 2010
Author:
BA_Harrison from Hampshire, England
Erotic Italian Gothic horror La bimba di Satana, from director Mario
Bianchi, takes place in exactly the kind of imposing, brooding castle
one would expect from the genre: sat atop a stormy hill, shrouded in
shadows, with endless stone corridors and a dusty old crypt, it is
inhabited by a collection of 'unique' individuals all hiding dark
secrets. Clichéd though these elements might be, the film's narrative
could never be described as predictable...
Aldo Sambrelli plays Antonio Aguilar, the recently widowed owner of the
creepy castle whose hot teenage daughter Miria (the gorgeous Jacqueline
Dupré) has been acting rather strange since her mother's death. Also
living in the castle are sexy nun Sol (Mariangela Giordano), who is
employed to take care of Antonio's paraplegic brother Ignazio (she
gives very thorough bed bath), and a strange manservant named Isidro
who conducts satanic rituals in the crypt.
Antonio spends much of his his time shooting up drugs and pestering Sol
for sex; but the nun isn't having any of it, preferring to swan around
in just her stockings, tempting poor immobile Ignazio. Meanwhile,
Miria's fevered state worsens and eventually, she rises from her bed in
a trance to kill...
Unfortunately, despite its unusual plot, copious nudity from its
attractive female stars, and plenty of general perversion, including
lesbianism, voyeurism, murder, possession and necrophilia, La bimba di
Satana is a real bore for most of the time: Bianchi's lousy direction
is torturously slow and the structure of the film makes matters more
than a little confusing—at least until the film's final minutes, when
some of the plot threads are thankfully finally pulled together
(although I never did quite understand how the reanimated mouldy mummy
fitted into proceedings!).
***EDIT*** The above review was for the softcore cut of the film, but
having just seen the uncut version, which contains a couple of explicit
sex scenes towards the end, my opinion of Satan's Baby Doll hasn't
really changed that much: it's still boring.
1 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
Boring, risible stuff, 7 August 2011
Author:
tomgillespie2002 from United Kingdom
The freshly-dead body of Maria (Marina Hedman) lies in the crypt of the
Aguilars. The castle's inhabitants stand round her body, glancing
nervously and suspiciously at each other. Her daughter Miria
(Jacqueline Dupre), starts to struggle with her mother's death, and
begins to walk in her sleep, feeling her mother's presence inside of
her. Maria's husband Antonio (Aldo Sambrell) is a wealthy tyrant who
rules the castles with an iron fist, and when he sees his paraplegic
brother Ignazio spying at the naughty nun Sol (Mariangela Giordano)
getting up to some sordid antics in her room, he flies off the handle
in a jealous rage. Meanwhile, Isidro, fears Satan's power and the
control he will have over Maria. When the castle's resident doctor is
killed after he tries to take Miria away, it is clear that Satan's
power is indeed present, but who is he controlling?
The film finishes around the 1 hour 13 mark. The fact that I felt as if
I'd just watched The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy back-to-back in one 10-
hour session speaks volumes about the quality of this Italian
supernatural erotic horror. It is basically a half-an-hour film
stretched out as far as possible into something that resembles a
feature. Apart from the expected bad acting, woeful script, and
laughable silliness of it all, which you would almost expect, the film
is suicidally boring. As Ignazio stares at the naughty Sol through her
bedroom door and she pleasures herself in all her overacting glory, the
camera cuts from naked flesh, back to his wide-eyes, back to naked
flesh and then back to his eyes, and so on. This lasts for eight whole
minutes. It's like Sergio Leone decided to make a low-budget horror
with a sprinkling of soft-core porn, and somehow lost all his talent
beforehand. Fans of over-the-top soft-core porn will rejoice, but for
everyone else, this is pretty risible stuff.
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3 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
Satan's Baby Doll, 28 February 2008
Author:
Michael_Elliott from Louisville, KY
Satan's Baby Doll (1982)
** (out of 4)
Remake of Malabimba, The Malicious Whore follows the same storyline
pretty much and also cuts out the hardcore sex scenes. This time out
it's Jacqueline Dupre playing the young girl who is being possessed and
Mariangela Giordano reprises her role as the nun. This is a pretty
straight forward remake so if you've seen the original movie then
you're not going to have any twists or turns that you don't see coming.
It's hard to say which movie is better as both have good and bad things
going for them. I think this one works nicely without the hardcore
scenes but at the same time this film here isn't nearly as sexy or
erotic as the original. This film is also pretty straight forward and
doesn't contain as many campy moments, which is the main reason I'd
rewatch the original over this one. This one here does have some great
cinematography and some nice eye candy in the form of the beautiful
naked women but I wouldn't really call this film necessary.
3 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
Guilty Pleasure, 16 February 2008
Author:
thewag777 from Florida
Here we have a sensual, creepy, and sleazy indie horror. Much of it is very erotic, borders on soft core porn, but the horror of the film is too good to pass this off as a hornography. It has it's gore, but it relies heavily on scene setting and subtlety rather than just another boobs and blood. With that said, the various nude scenes and especially the lesbian stuff towards the end clearly degenerate this film, but then, who can deny enjoying that! The baby doll herself, Miria, is beautiful and young, and plays the role well. Just wait till you see her in bed being possessed...get the cold shower ready! Definitely worth seeing! Not a masterpiece by far, but good fun! I rate it 6 of 10.
A pretty low grade sex-horror film, 4 March 2012
Author:
Mondo_Giallo from Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Well they do say you should never judge a book by its cover. The same
rule clearly applies to movies. Satan's Baby Doll sports a very
provocative poster whose design is somewhat similar to the work of
fantasy artist Boris Vallejo. It would only be fair to say that nothing
in the film itself resembles this painting at all. The misleading
poster is the best thing about this.
This flick is one of many European movies that combined horror with
sex. If anything this is a sex film with horror elements, rather than
the other way around. It isn't an especially erotic movie though, so it
fails in its primary objective. In fact it's a bit of a bore mostly. It
does have a nice setting but that's about all it has going for it. It's
a badly directed affair with a simple yet confused story about
possession. It's very difficult to care very much what happens. It's
essentially a tedious sleaze-fest and that is never a good combination.
Sleazy and atmospheric remake of "Malabimba"., 6 January 2011
Author:
HumanoidOfFlesh from Chyby, Poland
The plot of "La Bimba di Satana" is fairly simple:following the death of her mother a young girl named Miria gets possessed by her spirit and tries to avenge her mother's murder.The thin plot is only an excuse to pack as much sleaze as possible.There is plenty of full-frontal nudity provided by Mariangela Giordano of "Giallo a Venezia" and "Malabimba" fame,Italian porn queen Marina Hedman and Jacqueline Dupre.The film is set in a lovely Italian Gothic castle.The score by Nico Cantanese is extremely cheesy.Unfortunately the Shameless DVD did not include two hardcore scenes that were available on the German release.Overall,"Satan's Baby Doll" has its share of creepy atmosphere,but it's not as insanely sleazy as "Malabimba".7 crypts out of 10.
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