''Satan's Baby Doll'' ( it, La bimba di Satana) is a 1983 Italian

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directed by

Mario Bianchi Mario Bianchi (7 January 1939 – April 2022) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Bianchi directed several features including sexploitation and pornographic films Pornographic films (pornos), erotic films, sex films, and 18+ ...

Plot

The daughter (Jacqueline Dupré) and brother of a dead aristocrat are placed in the care of an evil nun in a remote Spanish castle. The daughter embarks on a rampage of lust and murder after becoming possessed by the spirit of her dead mother.

Cast

* Jaqueline Dupré as Miria Aguilar * Mariangela Giordan as Sol *

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as Antonio Aguilar * Joe Davers as Isidro * Giancarlo Del Duca as Dr. Juan Suarez * Alfonso Gaita as Ignazio Aguilar *

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n as Maria Aguilar

Production

For ''Satan's Baby Doll'', Gabriele Crisanti and screenwriter

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opted to remake the film ''

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'', which included casting

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to reprise her role. Giordano spoke negatively on the role, stating that remaking ''Malabimba'' was "a stupid move. I felt used, abused and exploited." It was the last film Giordano made with Crisanti, ending both their professional and personal relationships. Unlike Cristanti's earlier films, which were hybrids of sex and horror, the target for ''Satan's Baby Doll'' was for a

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audience. This included casting Italy's best known pornographic actress of the period

and Alfonso Gaita, who was a regular in Italian hardcore pornography films of the period. Jacqueline Dupré was a stagename of an actress who

stated he couldn't remember her real name, but recalled that she lived in

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and that this was seemingly her only film. Filming began on August 17, 1981.

Aldo Sambrell Alfredo Sánchez Brell (23 February 1931 – 10 July 2010), known as Aldo Sambrell, was a Spanish actor, director, and producer who appeared in over 150 films between 1961 and 1996. Biography Sambrell was born in Vallecas, Madrid, on 23 Februa ...

was involved in a unsimulated sex scene with Marina 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..." Sambrell contacted Crisanti to state he could not work under these conditions. Sambrell was replaced by Gaita for the explicit shots.

Release

''Satan's Baby Doll'' was submitted to the Italian rating board in June 1982 in a softcore version which had a running time of a little over 73 minutes. The film was first released in Spain on 25 February 1983 in a softcore version titled ''La hija de Satanas''. The Spanish version was seen by 20,230 spectators and grossed a 2019 equivalent of 30,200

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. It was distributed theatrically in Italy by Film 2 on 29 July 1983. Although Bianchi and Cristanti had denied a hardcore version of the film had existed, a hardcore version of the film premiered on a German DVD in 2007. The hardcore version runs at 88 minutes.

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* 1983 films 1980s pornographic films 1983 horror films Italian erotic horror films Pornographic horror films Films about Satanism Films directed by Mario Bianchi Incest in film Films set in Spain 1980s Italian films {{1980s-horror-film-stub