Does the movie live up to all the hype? Well...let's see shall we?
Satan's Baby Doll (1983)
There are two versions of this movie. A horror version and a softcore porn version. For tonight's review, I am more interested in the horror version.
While the movie looks like a demonic story, it's actually a demonic, or more to the point, diabolic witchcraft story.
Marina Hedman plays the recently dead Maria. While waiting for the reading of her will her husband Antonio (Aldo Sambrell), and children Miria (Jaqueline Dupré) and Ignazio (Alfonso Gaita) explore her old estate along with weird nun Sol (Mariangela Giordano).
The makeup effects of the dead Maria are all over the place. Sometimes she looks like a rotting corpse other times just dead. I am not counting the times she is walking around as a spirit. This is an 80s movie, but the make-up effects are closer to the mid-70s.
Maria's spirit begins to possess her young, and formerly innocent, daughter Miria into seducing and killing her former husband (father), son (brother), priest, and Sol. So yeah a little squicky. What is it with demonic possession and incest?
Maria/Miria goes through her whole family, killing them all. The end was not what I expected, but it was fun.
Let's address the cover. Satan never really appears in the movie and certainly never like that. Also our femme fatales, Jaqueline Dupré and Marina Hedman are both blondes. The cover is obviously geared towards the style of covers popular in the heyday of early 80s fantasy. The alternate cover is not exactly safe for most social media platforms.
October 2021
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