Lilith (Seduction Cinema starlet Misty Mundae of Dr. Jekyll And Mistress Hyde, also directed by Tony Marsiglia) has a one track mind – she wants a baby. She’ll do whatever she needs to in order to conceive, and despite the fact that her marriage to the jobless and rather limp Jim (Ronnie Kerr) is a big mess, she continues to hold onto the frail hope that she’ll be able to carry a child despite the fact that deep down inside she knows she’s not the most fertile of women. 

Making matters worse for Lilith and her quickly crumbling psyche is the fact that the lovely lady next door -  and the only friend that she really has, Aisha (ultra-foxy Erika Smith of Shock-O-Rama), has managed to become great with child – she’s even starting to show which makes Lilith pretty jealous. Lilith continues to visit the doctor on a regular basis in hopes that something can be done to remedy her condition but no dice. Lilith’s envy of Aisha and the life that she has, the baby she’s carrying and the husband who actually treats her well soon becomes all consuming, eventually driving her to do the unthinkable. 

Treading some fairly grisly territory, Sinful is an interesting character study of one woman’s descent into madness by way of envy and deception. Lilith is an interesting character in that she’s been dealt a pretty bad hand in life but it is ultimately her decisions and her actions that bring about the horror and the depravity that is ultimately where the film takes us. 

Along the way we’re given more food for thought than you might think in that the movie does pose some question to the viewer as to how responsible she really is for her own actions and it makes you think about whether or not her mental state excuses her to any extent whatsoever. 

Mundae handles the role better than many of her detractors will probably admit and she does a pretty good job here with the material that she has to work with. More so than her turn in Lucky McKee’s Sick Girl, she actually does show quite a bit of growth as an actress in this film and Erika Smith is right there with her doing a fine job as the sympathetic Aisha. 

Director Tony Marsiglia shot the film in only five days and at times it does show in that there are scenes that maybe should have been re-shot in hopes of getting a better take and sometimes things don’t look quite as slick as they should. Even with that said, there’s still quite a bit of genuinely moody atmosphere to soak in and the violence in the film is used rather effectively. Compared to the dreadful Sin Sisters (well, it did have that shower scene going for it…) or the marginally impressive Lust For Dracula, two earlier efforts from Marsiglia, here too we see a lot of growth and even with the ridiculously short shooting schedule there’s some real talent bubbling up out of this film.