EXPLORING: The movies of Filmirage
In 1980, Joe D’Amato started Filmirage, a production company that would help create his movies as well as the films of others. They released more than forty movies in fourteen years, which is a pretty good record. By 1994, D’Amato had made the move to almost strictly making adult films and had left theaters and […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Hard Sensation (1980)
Joe D’Amato made an effective women’s revenge film with Emanuelle and Francoise, but this is in no way as good as that film. Another film from that burst of 1980 island-based adult films*, this one has four gorgeous young women take an island holiday, only to have three criminals — with writer George Eastman as the […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Paradisio Blu (1980)
Unlike IMDB, we’d like you to know that this movie is not Adam and Eve vs. the Cannibals, which is a fine movie, but was directed by Enzo Doria and Luigi Russo, the same team that made another Blue Lagoon ripoff called The Blue Island. No, this is Joe D’Amato’s Blue Lagoon ripoff, except he didn’t want this movie […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Convent of Sinners (1986)
Directed*, photographed** and edited — and based on Denis Diderot’s 1780 novel La Religieuse, which started as a practical joke in which the writer tried to lure Marquis de Croismare back to Paris with letters from a nun named Suzanne who wanted the Marquis to help her renounce her vows — by Joe D’Amato. While the […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Vizio e provocazione (1996)
One of the hardest things about a week of D’Amato films is finding SFW box cover art that won’t get flagged by Facebook. So if you see a lot of pictures of Joe’s smiling face instead of the actual poster art, that’s why. A period drama set in the 1920s, Provocation is about Carlo (Gianni De […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Un bounty killer a Trinità (1972)
The Carlo Croccol-directed Black Killer provided the majority of the footage for this movie, supplemented by pickups from Oscar Santaniello, who was there in name only, as the real director was Aristide Massaccesi, the man we know as Joe D’Amato. He also wrote this story, which is all about Jeff Cameron’s* bounty hunter being hired by […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Ossessione fatale (1991)
One of the intriguing things about Joe D’Amato is how often the women in his movies turn the tables on the men, whether through supernatural, emotional or sexual (or some combination of them all) ways. Emanuelle and Francoise is a great example, as even though things don’t necessarily work out all that well for the lead, […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Absurd (1981)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Man, I love this movie. We wrote about it all the way back around October 30, 2018 and I still watch it at least once a year. Stay tuned — there’s even a drink that goes with this movie. Originally called Rosso Sangue (Red Blood), this movie is also known as Zombie 6: Monster […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We first posted this on February 23, 2018 and I think about this film almost every single day. I’m deranged. Legend has it that David Cronenberg for the idea for the torture TV channel that lends its name to his opus Videodrome from this Joe D’Amato film, which is also known as Trap Them and Kill Them. […]
You must be logged in to post a comment.