JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Pleasure Shop on the Avenue (1977)
A bunch of small time hoods rob a grocery store for five grand without realizing that it’s a protected mob store. On the run, they hide in an adult bookstore, which by the fate of Italian exploitation movies is run by Lorna (Anna-Maria Clementi, Sister Angela from Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals) the girlfriend of the […]
The Darkness of the Road
Caracas, Venezuela-based filmmaker Eduardo Rodriguez studied film at Florida State University and bowed with his first short in 2002. He’s since made five low-budget features, his last being, You’re Not Alone (2020). Here, in his sixth feature, he weaves a tale about Siri, a single mother, and Eve, her daughter, traveling on their way to […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: A Woman’s Secret (1992)
Somehow, someway Joe D’Amato got Margaux Hemingway, Apollonia (yes, the female star of Purple Rain) and Dan McVicar (The Bold and the Beautiful) in one of his movies, had the budget to shoot in New Orleans and responded by delivering a film that has less sleaze than normal but still doesn’t skimp on the nudity […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Fra’ Tazio da Velletri (1973)
Friar Tazio da Velletri desires Lisa (Christa Linder, whose career takes her from appearing with Blue Demon in Invasion of the Dead and in Boris Karloff’s last movie The Incredible Invasion to showing up in the Westen Day of Anger, the Carlos Enrique Taboad quasi-giallo Vagabundo en la Lluvia, the Eurospy movies Kill Me Gently and Countdown to Doomsday, Harry Reems’ last adult […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: High Finance Woman (1990)
Tara Buckman blasted me into puberty when she showed up in the Lamborghini with Adrienna Beabeau in Cannonball Run and for that we should always remember and thank her. Well, maybe not totally into puberty — I was nine — but I finally understood why guys in movies were going crazy for women. Frem memorably playing […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Il Ginecologo Della Mutua (1977)
Beyond his two decameron films, Joe D’Amato also made this commedia sexy all’italiana about a gynecologist who — despite his average looks — has a line of women who can’t wait for him to see to them. Most of the Italian sex comedies I’ve seen get lost in translation and feel dated — which makes […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: L’alcova (1985)
Ugo Moretti wrote the Carroll Baker giallo Paranoia AKA Orgasmo and for that, we should be thankful. This is another of his scripts — based on The Alcove by Judith Wexley* — which is the story of Elio De Silveris (Al Cliver), a war veteran, who returns from the Second Abyssinian War with a prisoner of war. […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Any Time, Any Play (1990)
Starting her career as a dancer in the Beastie Boys’ video for “No Sleep till Brooklyn,” Ruth Collins has been in so many touchpoints in my movie-watching life. There are Psychos in Love, Firehouse, Doom Asylum and appearances in three Robert Findlay movies, Lurkers, Blood Sisters and Prime Evil. It just stands to reason that she’d be in not just […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: 2020 Texas Gladiators (1982)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote about this movie all the way back on September 27, 2018 so we added some new info to this article as we celebrate a week of Joe D’Amato. A film with many AKAs — Anno 2020: I Gladiatori del Futuro (Year 2020 Gladiators of the Future), Futoro, 2020: The Rangers of Texas, 2020: […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Antropophagus (1980)
EDITOR’S NOTE: They don’t come much rougher than this movie, which we originally posted about on August 5, 2018. As a bonus, there’s a cocktail recipe to go with the movie! Drink up! I’ve recently been reading the book Satanic Panic: Pop Culture Paranoia in the 1980’s and reminded of my own misspent youth. In sixth […]
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