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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.

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.

I don't quite know what to make of "Satan's Baby Doll", to be honest. As the title suggests, it's another cheap, wicked-minded and umpteenth excuse for Italian producers to come up with sleaze and satanic nonsense – and it is – but on the other hand it's a surprisingly stylish and well-made film. Yes, really! Well, talking in terms of early 80's exploitation standards and in comparison with the other titles on director Mario Bianchi's repertoire, that is. It even has a plot that is slightly above average, competent acting performances (I'm not kidding!) and genuine young beauty that sadly only ever appeared in this one film. Oh Jacqueline Dupré, what an angel you are. The sinister events all take place inside the walls of an ancient family castle atop a hillside. This location is always filmed from underneath in the valley, just to make really sure the viewer knows we're dealing with a very isolated setting here. The lady of the house just died, but she was involved with black magic rites and Satanism, so her malignant spirit attempts to return from the afterlife. She finds the perfect host inside the ravishing body of her young daughter Myra and commands her to kill all the remaining dirt bags in the castle. So what we have here, basically, is an Italian variation on "The Exorcist" (another one), but with a Gothic setting and buckets full of gratuitous nudity. Also living in the castle is a masturbating nun, a Peeping Tom in a wheelchair, a sleazy lawyer, a crazy voodoo-obsessed servant and the sickly jealous and tyrant patriarch. There are quite a lot of senseless dialogs and boring parts you unfortunately have to struggle yourself through, but the death scenes are fairly imaginative and Dupré beauty & sex-appeal brightens up the screen with every appearance she makes. The other female leads are filled in by Mariangela Giordano (yes, THE woman whose nipple gets bitten off by her creep son in "Burial Ground") as the household nun and by adult movie starlet Marina Hedman as the undead but still very horny Maria. This is bizarre early 80's exploitation, to say the least , but it's worth seeing if only for the imaginative choreography, the uncanny set pieces, the ominous musical guidance (courtesy of Nico Catanese) and the naked body of Jacqueline Dupré. Shallow? You bet!

Producer Gabriel Crisanti along with his then wife, the sumptuous Mariangela Giordano, produced and sometimes co-wrote a number of horror/sex movies in late 1970's, always displaying an appalling lack of good taste that was sometimes a good thing ("Malabimba" and "Burial Ground")and sometimes not such a good thing ("Giallo Venezia" and "Patrick Lives Again") depending on the relative talents of the director. (The first pair was directed by a somewhat talented hack, Andrea Bianchi, while the second pair was directed by talentless hack, Mario Landi). This movie is unusual in that Crisanto uses a third director, Mario Bianchi, the brother of Andrea, to basically remake his brother's film "Malabimba", and the result, rather than being repellent and unpleasant like the Landi films, is more just toothless and boring.

A woman is murdered by her drug addict husband, and (while still an attractive nude corpse lying on the slab) she manages to possess her nubile young daughter and uses her to get revenge on her husband, her husband's bent doctor (who was also her lover), her husband's crippled brother (who was ALSO a former lover), and the local priest because. . .well, he's a Catholic priest. She doesn't really NEED to possess her daughter though since she also seems to have incredible psychic abilities that among other things allow her to reanimate the dead.

Of course, the name of the game of all these movies is sex, and here this movie is a mixed bag. If you favor mature, voluptuous "madonnas" like Giordano you will not be disappointed with her portrayal of a compulsively naked and self-gratifying nun (the mother is also pretty damn attractive given the considerable handicap of lying dead on a slab for most of the movie). On the other hand, if you prefer the nubile, barely legal "lolitas" the unknown Jacqueline Dupree is a very poor substitute for Catyl Laennac in "Malabimba" in that she fails to masturbate with a teddy bear or fellate her own uncle to death or even get naked below the waist. What will be disappointing to either camp though is that the inter-generational lesbian sex scenes of "Malabimba" that pass for "the exorcism" have been replaced here instead by a strange scene of necrophilia (albeit one that makes necrophilia look pretty attractive). It might have been pointless to remake "Malabimba" to begin with, but this is compounded by the the filmmakers not faithfully imitating the first film nearly enough.

There is also, by the way, a hardcore version of this film out there, but while some may disagree, nowhere in the history of cinema that I know of has hardcore footage ever IMPROVED a movie. Not really recommended. Stick with "Malabimba".

"Satan's Baby Doll" is a true cinematic oddity, as it is such an extreme mix of good, and awful. The creators of this film had everything that they needed to make a true classic; access to a lavish castle on a cliff, decorated for royalty, a memorable music score, and a beautiful young actress in the central role. There is even a fairly interesting story here, of an angry mother who possesses the body of her daughter from beyond the grave, to exact revenge on the inhabitants of the castle. Seriously, the sets need to be seen to be appreciated. Italian director Luchino Visconti would have filmed one of his masterpieces in this opulent setting! Unfortunately the people behind the scenes were lacking in some regards. Beautiful images sit awkwardly next to very ugly scenes, of ugly old men biting the heads off of chickens and writhing around on the floor making guttural, vomiting sounds for long stretches of time. Unappealing scenes of actors past their prime, getting naked and having very graphic sex. To make matters worse, the director decided to film actual hardcore scenes for this film. This is the version I saw, and I can attest to the fact that they add nothing to this film. Said scenes include a woman in her late 40's/early 50's giving on-screen oral sex to a rather unattractive man in a wheelchair, and another scene of the same tired old whore performing oral sex on a completely disgusting old man, and there is a short insert of his penis entering her old-lady vagina. The young girl Jaqueline Dupre is of course involved with none of these tasteless scenes, (luckily for her!) Anyway, this awkward mix of artistic art-house beauty and ugly pornography don't really work. and it's a shame because much of the film really is gorgeous to look at, atmospheric and sad. In more capable hands, "Satan's Baby Doll" could have been a true cult classic. what we have instead is a result of a film maker who could not seem to make up his mind, whether he wanted to create art, or garbage. Strangely the end result is artistic garbage. i don't think i have ever seen any film as uneven as this; did it have two directors?

Some sources (including the afore-mentioned "Stracult") consider this to be a superior film to MALABIMBA – THE MALICIOUS WHORE (1979), of which this is a revamp (and therefore sufficiently different not to qualify as a direct remake) but I certainly disagree. To begin with, there is only a fair amount of nudity but little sex in itself and none of the hardcore variety; in fact, it's rather heavier on horror content compared to the original, even going so far as to include a completely irrelevant (if reasonably eerie) marauding mummy scene!

On the whole, SATAN'S BABY DOLL is a much more somber film and, consequently, a good deal less entertaining than MALABIMBA itself (which, at least, had rampant nudity and campiness to compensate for its other deficiencies). Conversely, the later film is a more compact affair with not only less characters (7 in all) but a much shorter running time at only 74 minutes. Another good score is provided and I thought Mariangela Giordano (who, at 45, certainly looks great in the nude) was better here than she was in MALABIMBA. The lead, Jacqueline Dupre', is quite lovely as well (though I personally preferred Laennec) and, like her predecessor, this was her only movie to date.

Unfortunately, the cons greatly outnumber the pros in this case: the baffling butler characterization (and the resulting hideously hammy performance) is a definite eyesore, as is the sloppy editing (especially during the scene where the paraplegic uncle imagines Giordano writhing passionately in bed). Spaghetti Western regular Aldo Sambrell is curious casting for the unsympathetic vengeful head of the family and his sluttish wife (whose spirit possesses the teenage lead) is not all that attractive either (which did not prevent her from getting it on with the novice while still alive)!

When everything is said and done, I don't think SATAN'S BABY DOLL merited a DVD release of its own and would have been better served as a double-feature with MALABIMBA...not least because such a move would have decreased their collective purchase price and saved shelf space to prospective buyers! Curiously enough, there's no option to watch either film without English subtitles and I had to manually remove them during playback!

Mario Bianchi's A Girl for Satan is apparently a remake of Andrea Bianchi's Malabimba, and although I can't compare the two having not yet seen Malabimba; this remake is stylish and sexy enough to at least be considered half decent. I've read that Malabimba is a rather more hardcore affair; and it would seem that the director here tried to cut that out, and while this film does feature a fair amount of nudity; there's no hardcore sex scenes, but this does actually benefit the film as it certainly seems a lot more erotic than it would have been were it padded out with a load of sex scenes. The plot is mostly nonsensical but has something to do with demonic possession and some horny naked woman coming back from the dead. Our lead character is a young girl who gets possessed by the spirit of her dead mother; who was murdered by her husband. The mother uses the girl in order to get revenge on a whole range of people that had something to do with it; including the family doctor and her husband's crippled brother.

As is always the case with cheap Italian trash, the script here leaves a lot to be desired and there's far too many scenes in which the characters say 'that's impossible!'. In fact, it happens just about every five minutes or so and naturally it's not long at all before it starts to get very tiresome. The film's main assets belong to Jacqueline Dupré, who is simply stunning and doesn't seem to mind getting her kit off at every given opportunity; and that's no bad thing. The film does look fairly cheap; but some of the set design is nice to look and the lighting is also marginally impressive - which does help the atmosphere of the film. It does get a bit hard to follow at times because the plot line takes so many illogical steps; but the style and the leading lady do at least serve in keeping things mostly interesting. At just seventy minutes, the film is rather short so it doesn't really have to become too boring. Of course, it all turns out to be a big waste of time in the end as the film never goes anywhere and doesn't really do anything; but even so, there's worse trash out there and this does at least have some redeeming elements.

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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"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.

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.

As a good catholic boy I was once taught to only expose my young misfit mind to theologically edifying works of god-fearing fright! Angelically 80s, wrong-headed, Video-era relic 'Satan's Baby Doll' remains one truly essential, unholy spirited, sweaty Psalmed, ghastly genuflected grindhouse classic of immaculately intoxicating Italianate insanity! A celebratory cathedral of sublime celluloid sin, Bianchi's supernaturally sordid, fleshly fabulous, soft-horn horror-show is blessed with an abundance of sanctifying, smut-slathered shuntage, ominously occult orgies of voyeuristic villainy, and diabolically delivered death! You can certainly bash more than your bible to muck maestro Mario Bianchi's super-sleazy, quick-wristed, catacomb creepy, morbidly necromantic, satanically twisted shocker 'Satan's Baby Doll', starring scintillatingly sexy Euro-cult legends Mariangela Giordano, Jaqueline Dupré, and swarthy spaghetti western icon, Aldo Sambrell.

This blissfully bizarre B-movie bacchanal will sensationally sleaze your mind, stiffen more than your resolve, put some righteous funk into the most miserable monk, titillate the holiest of holies, and bring y'all closer to the god-head! So don't be a martyr to midnight movie mediocrity! Kneel before the triumphantly trashy altar of monotheistic madness that is 'Orgasmo Di Satana' aka 'Satan's baby Doll'. And much respect to the celestially sonorous score by beat-master Nico Cantanese that delivers some devilishly sweet grooves to your B-Horror-loving dome. Infamous splatter film-maker Mario Bianchi is no mere frivolous frock teaser, since he put the 'X' back into the exorcist, and righteously put the spear of god back into horror, as his frequently celebrated, starkly sinister scuzz-fest 'Satan's Baby Doll' gives you wings!

I got this print from Video Search of Miami, not really knowing for sure what I was in for. I was under the impression that this was a possession movie, and it is, sort of. Unfortunately, all of the characters are so boring that after a while you stop caring who's doing what to whom. The basic plotline is this: young girl becomes possessed by the spirit of her dead mother while left in the care of her tyrannical father. There are a number of other people living in the house, but it isn't really explained what they're doing there. In fact, there isn't much in the way of a plot either. There a few really sleazy moments which I won't give away for you exploitation fans. Ultimately, this one is for diehard fans of the genre only.

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.

La Bimba di Satana, or Satan's Baby Doll, is a sleazy, softcore shock fest from director Mario Bianchi. With a generous helping of nudity and a side of horror, this Eurotrash treat is an erotic, if talkative, romp.

The story centers on the vengeful soul of Maria, who seeks to possess her daughter and exact revenge on her husband, Antonio. The plot is merely a vehicle for a series of erotic encounters, with the film lingering on scenes of naked women, groping, and undressing. The nuns, for example, wear thigh-high stockings, and the female cast spends more time bare-chested than clothed. One scene, in particular, stands out: a truly gratuitous display involving actress Mariangela Giordano, who finds herself in a compromising position with a statue of the devil, her bare body contorted in ways that would make a gymnast blush. The camera lingers on her exposed form, emphasizing the eroticism of the moment.

While the mood and setting are on point, creating a suitably eerie atmosphere, the film struggles to balance its horror and soft porn elements. It's a bit like a devil's bargain, trying to have its cake and eat it too. The result is a movie that doesn't fully commit to either genre, leaving viewers with a sense of unfinished business.

That being said, La Bimba di Satana has its charms. The cover art is a tantalizing tease, and the Italian title, translating to Satan's Girl, rightly focuses on the female lead. The film also has an enjoyable, if talkative, pace that allows for character development amidst the nudity.

In conclusion, La Bimba di Satana is a curious entry into the world of adult horror. It has its moments of devilish delight but ultimately falls short of being a masterpiece in either genre it attempts.

This movie was made with the script of Malabimba, but with more and real made for the movie stars sex scenes. Beside that, nothing happens. The history is difficult to follow, because is so simple that you want more. But when you want more, only bad sex scenes, and the lack of shock moments made a terrible mix. The only good thing of this movie is the pack. Is a shame, because not everyone can buy a movie for the pack. Is like when you meet a nice lady, but in her heart you find more than one nightmare. I gave yesterday a chance to this movie. I thought to invite a friend. He was lucky. He miss the chance to waste almost 1:30 hours of a valuable life. I lost part of my life. Snif.

La bimba di Satana/Satan's Babydoll is a strange early 80s film that does not really ever make much sense, but is marvellously weird and pleasantly gothic, albeit with a string of extended sex scenes which may or may not try the patience of viewers. Some of the highlights are Isidro's very, very long spellcasting (and yelling/gurning) scenes, and when Ignazio spies on the sleeping Sol (and imagines all kinds of self-induced hijinks on her part). The latter is notable in that it is essentially the same scene repeated countless times, and so it is (especially with regard to the repeated close-ups of Ignazio's startled boat race) pretty much the very first media gif! However, it is fair to say that these scenes can equally also try the patience of saints due to their endlessness. However, the film has possessions, a spooky castle, a pretty cool mummy and so is a horror curio, if nothing else.

In a clash of contrasts, this beautiful looking film has a beautiful looking actress in it, but still comes across as just a cheap exploitation film. Mariangela Giodrani (of Burial Ground fame) stars here as nun Sol, caught up with a truly horrible family living in a mansion in isolation. Matriach Maria has just died, and the family have gathered together to see her off. You've got Maria's husband Aldo Sambrell (Flesh for the Beast), his crippled brother (another actor from Burial Ground), Aldo's daughter Miria, the butler, and a doctor. Very shortly the film dives head first into murder, nudity, possession, nudity and nudity.

Soon enough, while Aldo's shooting up his brother's morphine, his brother is peeping in on Sol while she's sleeping, imagining her doing a bit of invisible banjo playing. This scene goes on forever (although I'm still deciding if that's a good or bad thing here). The butler is trying to do some ritual to clear the house of the curse (another scene that goes on forever) while Miria wanders around the crypt as her dead mother's voice commands her to kill people. Aldo starts going crazy and accusing everyone of having an affair with his dead wife (which might be true, as it turns out).

This film might be sleazy (although there's very little sex), but the horror elements are sadly lacking. There's a few kills and the only scene that was any good was when Aldo was taking his brother to the basement to kill him. I suppose the bit where the corpse got up and strangle the guy was alright too. However, there is wall to wall nudity if that's your thing, as every female cast member (and some of the males) get their kit off, and I'm not complaining about Mariangela Giodrani – those big hazel eyes do seem to carry a certain charm.

All said, I could have done with a bit more story and horror, but you might get your kicks out of this one. It was okay.

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.

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.

"When the Devil calls, she comes", so says the cover of my UK DVD release. It has a picture of Satan embracing a naked woman but reality is there is no devil in this movie, no baby either, just a glimpse of a toy doll. The thin plot is set in a lived-in castle, I liked this Gothic aspect and being Italian the movie both looks and sounds good. However the main focus of this rather short movie is to show lots of naked flesh and some soft core sex scenes. All three actresses shed their clothes, lots full frontal nudity plus a few scenes of nipple touching and masturbation. The nudity isn't just confined to the women, there are a few brief shots of male genitalia too. Some of these scenes were sourced from a German print of poor picture quality. As for the horror a lot of time is spent in the crypt of the fine looking castle, we get a talking sexy nude corpse, a cool mummy and a few deaths, though little blood is seen. My favourite line, "You dirty paraplegic!" More sex than horror but if you are a fan of Eurosleaze then Doll is worth a watch.