Malabimba (1979, Review)

aka Malabimba, The Malicious Whore

Director: Andrea Bianchi

Cast: Giancarlo Del Duca, Elisa Mainardi, Mariangela Giordano, Patrizia Webley, Enzo Fisichella, Giuseppe Marrocu

Severin Films / Color / NTSC R1 / Rated X / Widescreen 1.85:1 (Anamorphic) / ITALIAN: Dolby Digital Mono / ENGLISH Subtitles / 88 minutes / PURCHASE@DIABOLIKDVD.COM

The Karoli family has a séance in their castle to communicate with Andrea’s deceased wife, Daniela. Instead they unleash the lustful spirit of Lucrezia, the promiscuous outcast sister of the family who may have been murdered by one of her many lovers. The spirit tries to take control of Sister Sofia, the housemaid, but when it doesn’t succeed, it possesses the nubile 16 year old daughter of Andrea, Bimba.

After watching her father and aunt Nais doing the wild monkey dance (um, that means fucking), Bimba begins to explore her own body and becomes obsessed with watching and having sex. Even her father, invalid uncle, Sofia the nun and her stuffed animals are not safe from the possessed teen’s advances. How far with the spirit of Lucrezia push the innocent, young Bimba into sexual deviance?

This ultra sleazy take on The Exorcist by Andrea Bianchi (Burial Ground and Strip Nude for Your Killer) is steeped in atmosphere and erotically charged energy. The castle setting also gives it a very gothic feel. The acting is damn good especially from Katell Laennec who plays “Bimba” (in her one and only acting role) and Mariangela Giordano who plays “Sister Sofia”. The two of them have a couple of very hot scenes together and both are incredibly sexy. The busty Patrizia Webley plays the slutty seductress “Nais” who is pretty devilish herself.

I was very surprised with the hardcore inserts in some of the sex scenes. But I thought it was done pretty well in contrast to say, Thriller: A Cruel Picture which was pretty jarring. I have pretty limited experience in the euro-sleaze “genre”, but experienced or not, this is one of the best (and sleaziest) movies of its kind I have ever seen.

Greg Baty

Greg is a lifelong genre film fan who digs boobs, blood and beer. He also enjoys old school punk rock, comic books and spending time with his beautiful wife Ellen and his cats Sydney and Alabama. Greg is the webmaster, Editor in Chief and Head Writer for Cinesploitation.

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