JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Una vergine per l’Impero Romano (1983) and Diary of a Roman Virgin (1973)
Using the name Jim Black and Robert Hall — as well as Dirk Frey — Joe D’Amato really went all out to get as many names as possible into this movie. Nadine Roussial plays Livia the Arena Queen, a virgin who must win one more battle inside the arena to get her freedom. It’s an […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Love In Hong Kong (1983)
This movie actually played on Joe Bob’s Drive-In Theater on April 16, 1994 and that fact alone makes me beyond happy. It’s Joe D’Amato — as Alexander Boroscky — working with a lot of people I’ve never seen or heard from before or since other than Mark Shannon and I’ll be frank with you dear reader. […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: The Crawlers (1993)
Man, this movie is just filled with everything that I love: Multiple titles: It goes by Troll 3, Creepers and Contamination .7 while having nothing to do with Troll 2 (not that Quest of the Mighty Sword does either), Phenomena or Contamination. Fake names: It has Fabrizio Laurenti (Witchery) directing under the pseudonym Martin Newlin while the man of many names, Joe […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Blue Angel Cafe (1989)
You can say what you want about Joe D’Amato’s movies, but the guy knew a very important fact: if you get someone as talented as Enzo Sciotti to paint the poster to your film, people will want to see it. That said, this is the kind of D’Amato movie that fascinates me, as it stars […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Pokerface (1972)
Also known as Pistoleiros de Trinity, Go Away! Trinity Has Arrived in Eldorado, Stay Away from Trinity… When He Comes to Eldorado and Trinity in Eldorado, this stars Stan Cooper (AKA Stelvio Rosi, The Hanging Woman, Something Creeping in the Dark) and Gordon Mitchell (a man so into the Italian Western industry he was paid with a […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Delizia (1986)
Dario Donati directed this movie and Convent of Sinners, but come on, you should know by now exactly who he is. This stars Tini Cansino in the lead and she’s just perfect for Joe, as she worked for years in Italy with a name that’s a direct reference — and she never would be all that […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Eva Nera (1975)
Do you think that when Jack Palance bounded to the stage, ready to do one-arm pushups and accept his Best Supporting Oscar for City Slickers after being nominated for Sudden Far and Shane, that he had a flashback and said to himself, “I’m in the A list tonight, but man, how can it compare to being in a movie […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Zombie 5: Killing Birds (1985)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We originally talked about this somewhat of a sequel to Zombie back on January 8, 2020. You can get this from Vinegar Syndrome or watch it on Tubi. We featured this on our weekly video show, there’s even a cocktail to go with this movie after the words! Fred Brown comes home from the Vietnam war, finds his […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: The Devil In The Flesh (1991)
Money obsessed mercenaries Sammy and Klaus are on a mission to escort the seriously ill prime minister of a South American country that has just been taken over by rebels. And by South America, I mean Louisiana. But no matter — the rebels are on their trail and our protagonists make their way to a […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Emanuelle Around the World (1977)
The Joe D’Amato Emanuelle movies are absolutely lunatic. I mean that in the best of ways, because while they promise you skin, sin and sleaze — and they deliver — it often feels like it all comes at the price of you feeling like you’ll ever be clean again. Written by Maria Pia Fusco, the daughter […]
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