Malabimba (1979)
6/10
Depraved excuse for possession.
7 November 2004
I had the fortune or misfortune to catch this obscure movie on an art channel from Mexican television. It aired the somehow Cut version which I believe was cut by the channel directors. Anyways, it didn't impress me the first time. So I decided to track a DVD but I was unfortunate enough to find it so I went to an obscure market in Mèxico D.F. and found a VHS copy of "Malabimba" (which was labelled as "Sexually Possessed" or something like that).

"The Exorcist" references are obvious but were taken into a disturbing direction. I won't say this is a rip-off of Friedklin's masterpiece but it's obviously inspired by.

The plot could be similar to "The Entity" because a sex ghost (properfly named an Incubus) comes to terrorize a young "beautiful" woman. In "Malabimba" a ghost sex possesses a teenager and suddenly her behavior becomes "nasty". And I mean NASTY. She sexually liberates everyone on her way (even her grandfather!)and later kills them. My beef with "Malabimba" is that the plot is executed in a poorly manner. I mean, all the scenes are just excuses to perform hard core sex scenes. So there are creepy and dark moments in the movie but it's all about depravity.

The "infamous" teddy bear masturbation scene is exactly what you think. Yes, a really dirty scene which may offend many people. So, after viewing the unrated or uncut version I recommend this one for fans of exploitation and depravity. But I think that this one would be more successful as a hard core sex movie with Horror references.
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