Unlike most of
Gabriele Crisanti's earlier sex-horror hybrids, the target for
La bimba di Satana (1982) was the hardcore porn market, which by then was in full bloom. The casting of
Marina Hedman, then Italy's most famous porn star, was telling, as was the presence of
Alfonso Gaita, a regular of early Italian hardcore. Also non adult actors as
Aldo Sambrell and
Mariangela Giordano, were asked to do some explicit scenes.
Sambrell was involved in a unsimulated sex scene with Hedman, which he later recalled: "We had to shoot a love scene, Marina and I... Well, I was lying on the bed, waiting for her, and when she showed up we started making out; after a while I realized that she was doing it for real and I had to stop her and call Crisanti, the producer, because I could not work that way." Sambrell was replaced by
Alfonso Gaita for the explicit close-ups.
Even Giordano has explicit scenes. "Remaking Malabimba was a stupid move. I didn't want to do the sex scenes. I felt used, abused and exploited," she commented about this film which marked not only the end of the artistic collaboration with her then-partner Crisanti, but of her personal relationship with him as well.
