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Malabimba: The Malicious Whore
[Severin]
1979; color
Directed by Andrew White
Starring: Katell Laennec, Patrizia Webley, Enzo Fisichella, Guiseppe Marrocu, Elisa Mainardi, Giancarlo Del Duca & Mariangela Giordano
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At this point I have been reviewing movies for quite some time and, during this time, I've always avoided dubbing any particular movie "the worst" or "the dumbest" or "the most outrageous" because, based on my relatively lengthy experience, I have learned there is always another film that is worse, dumber and more outrageous than the one you just saw. Sometimes, simultaneously. It was with this in mind that I cast a bit of a skeptical eye at the quote from Severin Films that dubs today's subject "one of the most degenerate treasures in EuroSleaze history!" (Although I did credit them a point for choosing to go with the "one of" part.) Plus I feel like it's safe to say that the entire EuroSleaze genre has a fairly high level of degeneration, if you will, so anything trying to single itself out from all of this other illicit activity better offer something pretty damn illicit in order live up to that assertion. With all of that said, I am fully prepared to agree with the previously mentioned box cover pull-quote. (Except maybe the treasure part; because treasure is in the eye of the beholder.) This much is certain, Malabimba The Malicious Whore is not just memorably titled, it one ridiculously f'ed up film. And that's coming from someone who has recently seen a majority of the collected works of Andy Milligan. This is nothing like an Andy Milligan film though (he's in many ways his own genre so nothing is truly comparable save another one of his films) it's actually a little more like one or more of the dirty movies Jess Franco made starring Lina Romay in the mid-'70s but way more perverse. (And if you've seen any of those you know Franco wasn't exactly a slouch in the perversion department.) At it's core this is a movie about demonic possession but, unlike the demon most viewers are familiar with from The Exorcist, this demon is a straight up horny bastard; or actually, I think they said the demon was the main girl's dead mother so I guess let's make that horny bitch. Either way, once this demon enters a person's body the host is consumed with a passion to invite all sorts of things into their body - nudge, nudge, wink, wink. This demon can even possess a nun to want to masturbate (you mean they don't?; I'm Jewish, I wouldn't know) and a teenage girl want to grab her father's cock in the garden, fuck her own reflection / a wall mounted mirror, sexually assault her teddy bear (after she masturbates with it of course), and give her paralyzed uncle a blow job so intense it kills him before he climaxes. PS: in case you were wondering the X Rated version is totally X Rated so you get to see all of these things instead of imagining what these sexual activities might look like. (Which is either a plus or a minus, depending on individual preference.) I was actually tricked by this aspect because, you know, back in the day all sorts of movies that today would not be considered hard enough for that rating received it. Suffice it to say, this is no Russ Meyer film and the people behind this production were clearly not against inserting - pun intended! - hardcore scenes, here in the form of a few repeated full on penetration scenes plus the deadly blow job I mentioned earlier. (I did think it was interesting that they did not include the seemingly prerequisite money shot. Maybe this is a reflection of the fact that it was made in Italy in the late '70s or maybe I'm reading too much into that aspect. Perhaps the performers just weren't excited enough by the proceedings to get off. I know it didn't do anything for me.) One comment I read online about the uncut (ahem) version offered on this DVD was that the sex scenes really added another level of sleaze to the proceedings and I completely concur. I wouldn't recommend this to the religious or prudish members of our audience but I'm not sure we really have any religious or prudish readers so...
—Bunny
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