Review of Satan's Baby Doll (1982) by Rob R — 25 Feb 2011

Hmm, this is the first Shameless release I've seen that I've not really enjoyed. But at least it was only an hour and a quarter long.

So plot is haunted castle; a nun, a girl and her dead mum get naked fairly regularly and a few men get killed. It seems the girl is possessed by her dead mother, but is she? There's a lot of heavy breathing in this, and not just in the self-diddling scenes, but also when not a lot is happening - which is something it has in common with the more boring end of the cheap and nasty market. Shameless have in the past managed to splice together quite smooth films from the bits of footage they uncover, but this feels a bit ramshackle.

Props though to the theme played, usually, when the nun is in a state of undress which is very Flaming Lips for its Pt I and then in Pt II goes full on Meddle era Pink Floyd. It's like if Flaming Lips covered Echoes and it wasn't shit, like their Dark Side of the Moon cover. Less props for its endless reoccurance.