JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Sesso acerbo (1981)
Look, when it comes to Joe D’Amato, I’m going deep and that’s no pun. Sasha Kramer (Roland Carey, whose career stretches back to peplum like Revolt of the Barbarians and the gothic horror of La bambola di Satana) and his wife Helen (Pauline Teutscher, whose career mainly was in adult film) are a middle-aged and childless couple. […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Giubbe rosse (1975)
Red Coats was released internationally as Cormack of the Mounties, Killers of the Savage North, Red Coat and Royal Mounted Police and was part of a very short cycle of childrens’ adventure films that were made after the success of commercial success of Lucio Fulci’s White Fang, a film that was Aristide Massaccesi went to […]
WATCH THE SERIES: Eleven Days, Eleven Nights
You have to hand it to Joe D’Amato. Most people would just make one ripoff of 9 and 1/2 Weeks. Instead, Joe stretches his series of three films out to 33 days, which is a little under 5 weeks or around half as much time as its inspiration and there’s some goofy logic to that. Actually […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Papaya: Love Goddess of the Cannibals (1978)
On a Caribbean island, a nuclear power plant is to about to be built despite the native population’s protests and their resistance under the guiance of Papaya (Melissa Chimenti). So how do you stop the nukes? You stea the engineers and kill them and sometimes eat them. Meanwhile… Sara (Sirpa Lane, who was referred to […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Black Killer (1971)
Lucky Moore is really Carlo Croccolo, who acted in around 137 movies and made two of his own, this one and Gunman of One Hundred Crosses, and they’re both on the low end of the Italian Western but that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t watch them, learn something and perhaps be entertained. The main reason for […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: The Devil’s Wedding Night (1973)
Supposedly, The Devil’s Wedding Night (AKA Full Moon of the Virgins) was all Mark Damon’s idea. After being in House of Usher, Damon had moved to Italy and appeared in movies like Black Sabbath and Johnny Yuma. Perhaps this idea was the start of his producing career, which was more successful than his acting job. Damon was planning on selling […]
Antropophagus 2000 (1999)
Andreas Schnaas is probably best known for Violent Shit, its many sequels and Zombie ’90: Extreme Pestilence. As a homage to Italian director Joe D’Amato — who I think would kind of appreciate being ripped off — he also remade Antropophagus with this film. Three Interpol agents explore a cave filled with bodies and find the journal of […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Deep Blood (1989)
EDITOR’S NOTE: How much do we love Joe D’Amato? The first line of this article, which originally appeared on December 21, 2018, is on the back of the box for Severin‘s blu ray release of this movie. If you thought Joe D’Amato didn’t have a Jaws ripoff in him, then you don’t know Joe D’Amato. Or […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: A Lustful Mind (1986)
Based on the book Luxure by Judith Wexley — which probably doesn’t exist — this movie is about how a rich young man named Alessio has lost his voice after his mother dies and he goes to live in the country. Meanwhile, his dad (Al Cliver) gets remarried and still finds the time to sleep with […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: The Arena (1974)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Back on January 28, 2019, we wrote about this movie but now it’s time for Joe to take over B&S About Movies and we’re here for all of it. Here’s The Arena! The assistant director of Johnny Got His Gun, as well as the director of Big Bad Mama, Lone Wolf McQuaid and Eye for an Eye, Steve […]
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