JOE D’AMATO MONTH: China and Sex (1994)
A very rich man falls in love with Tama, the most gorgeous woman in the brothel. Yet she wants nothing to do with him unless he goes through a spiritual journey and enters the four chambers of forbidden. The name for the director may be Robert Yip (or Chang Lee Sun!) and we all know who […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Chinese Kamasutra (1994)
Joan Parker (Giorgia Emerald, who only appeared in this film) works in a Chinese library and she turns down every man brave enough to try and pick her up until she finds the Chinese Kamasutra on the shelves and the black and white illustrations get her all excited like The Joy of Sex‘s hairy bodies did for […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Crazy Nights (1978)
Amanda Lear is one interesting story. The French singer, songwriter, painter, television presenter, actress and former model first came to the attention of the public via her image on the cover of Roxy Music’s For Your Pleasure. Thanks to her songs “Blood and Honey”, “Tomorrow”, “Queen of Chinatown”, “Follow Me”, “Enigma (Give a Bit of Mmh […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Le notti porno nel mondo n. 2 (1978)
Man, I was confused. Crazy Nights came out the same year and this movie mines much of the same territory as Emanuelle and the Erotic Nights and Le Notti Porno nel Mondo, so one would hopefully be excused by getting a bit mixed up what with all the Mattei and D’Amato mondo erotic films. I guess the way I’m […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Orgasmo Nero (1980)
Paul (Richard Harrison) is researching a tribe when his wife (Nieves Navarro!) falls for one of their women named Haini (Lucia Ramirez, Porno Holocaust) and brings her back to civilization. And then, for some reason, Haini picks up a guy at a bar and has a fantasy of killing him with a machete because hey […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: God Is My Colt 45 (1972)
A lot of times when watching Italian westerns I wonder, “Did I see this before?” Sometimes that’s a trick question as this movie remixes Anche per Django le carogne hanno un prezzo (Even for Django, Death Has a Price) and Paid in Blood, which were both directed by Luigi Batzella. I say directed and probably should have quotes […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Top Girl (1997)
Patricia (Carla Solaro, Snuff Killer) is a small town girl who makes the big time, getting to be the newest star on a prime time show called The Voice of the Heart and moving to Los Angeles, falling for the man who makes her famous, the callous Mike (Robert Madison, the son of cowboy star Guy Madison). […]
JOE D’AMATO MONTH: Tough to Kill (1979)
Look, if you’re going to rip off a poster… Rip off the best, because one of the posters for this film — for Titanes del le Guerra, the name it played under in Spain — takes its inspiration from Blazing Combat #1, which was painted by Frank Frazetta. Of course, Warren would rip themselves off by the […]
JOE D’AMATO WEEK: Endgame (1983)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Endgame isn’t just my favorite Joe D’Amato movie, it’s also my favorite post-apocalyptic movie ever made. It’s absolutely out of control for the entire movie with blind ninjas being led video game-style by psychics, fishmen all over Laura Gemser and George Eastman not being a bad guy for the whole film. It’s as good as it […]
WATCH THE SERIES: Ator
Conan the Barbarian and its success just meant that Italians could go back to making the peplum films they made for more than a decade in the 50s. The locations were there, the props were easy and all it took was the germ of an idea to send tons of Italian filmmakers out and about […]
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