JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Immagini di un convento (1979)
Originally called La casa del dio sconosciuto (House of the Unknown God), this movie starts by informing you that it was very loosely inspired by Prosper Mérimée’s La Vénus d’Ille before quoting Blaise Pascal: “The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.” Then a whole bunch […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: I racconti della camera rossa (1993)
Tales of the Red Chamber finds our pal Joe D’Amato making a movie as Robert Yip, which may be one of my favorite of his many stage names. And this movie has been reviewed by exactly no one — so far — on Letterboxd, which makes it one of the few D’Amato movies with little […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Caligula… The Untold Story (1982)
After the media excitement around the controversy of Tinto Brass’ Caligula, there came — pun intended, always — plenty of ripoffs as is the Italian exploitation cinema way of life. They include the Bruno Mattei films Caligula And Messalina and Nerone e Poppea, Caligula Reincarnated As Hitler (AKA Cesare Canevari’s The Gestapo’s Last Orgy so it’s a really Naziploitation and not Caligulaspoitation […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade (1978)
Starting with Bitto Albertini’s Black Emanuelle in 1975, Laura Gemser would play the character — or variations of her — in a ton of movies like Black Emanuelle 2; Emanuelle in Bangkok; Black Emmanuelle, White Emmanuelle; Emmanuelle on Taboo Island; Emanuelle in America; Sister Emanuelle; Emanuelle Around the World; Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade; Emanuelle and the Erotic Nights; Emmanuelle: Queen of Sados; Divine Emanuelle; Emmanuelle in […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Vow of Chastity (1976)
I’d like to believe that nether Joe D’Amato or George Eastman — in one of their first collaborations — ever had issues with impotency, but man, the heroes in their movies do. Annibale wants to leave all of his money — made from prostitition houses — to his nephew Andrea. The only problem is that […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Frankenstein 2000 (1992)
This would be the last non-adult film that Joe D’Amato would direct. But if he’s going out, he’s bringing along some old friends like Cinzia Monreale (who was in his Buio Omega), Maurice Poli (Papaya dei Cairibi) and Donald O’Brien (Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals, Immagini di un convento). It’s shot in Austria, which may explain […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: The Pleasure (1985)
Oh man, this movie. You know, Joe D’Amato did a lot of adult-themed movies but he did them because — well, up until it was straight porn — he knew how to do them right. And weird, too. Gerard (Gabriel Tinti) mourns the death of his mistress Leonora (Andrea Guzon), who has left behind tape […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Two movies with Bruno Mattei and Laura Gemser
EDITOR’S NOTE: We originally posted these movies back on May 18, 2021 and May 21, 2021 when we had a week of Bruno Mattei. Well, the scum always rises to the top, huh? Emanuelle and the Erotic Nights (1978): Known in Italy as Emanuelle e le porno notti nel mondo n. 2, this movie is more like the […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Death Smiles on a Murderer (1973)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Kinski and D’Amato? Sometimes life just gets too wild. We originally wrote about this on March 31, 2018 and now it’s back with new information. Enjoy! Once you watch this film, you’ll wonder — just how did this play on TV? It was part of the 13 titles included in Avco Embassy’s Nightmare Theater […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Sollazzevoli storie di mogli gaudenti e mariti penitenti – decameron (1972)
Facetious tales of pleasure-loving wives and penitent husbands – Decameron number 69 AKA More Sexy Canterbury Tales AKA More Filthy Canterbury Tales* is most assuredly a Joe D’Amato movie. At the time, he didn’t want to lose work as a cinematographer, so he used the name Romano Gastaldi, which mixed up assistant director Romano Scandariato name a […]
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