Necrophilia. Cannibalism. Twisted sex. Sound like your cup of tea? With countless blood and sleaze-filled exploitation films to his name, Joe D’Amato contributed a hard-to-be-topped excursion into sick horror with this Italian production. While it hasn’t hit the top of my horror all-time-greats, it’s a compelling view
Immediately banned in many countries after its release, Joe D’Amato‘s Italian Gore Classic “Antropophagus” of 1980 is a truly disturbing and immensely scary video nasty, and fans of ultra-violent and nasty Horror should not be disappointed.
A telepathic mutant recruits a post-World War III TV game-show warrior to lead her band of mutants to safety. And hey, wow, this one has them all in it: Joe d’Amato, Al Cliver, Laura Gemser, Michele Soavi and George Eastman. Wow, this is Italian exploitation flick is great.
God bless Joe D’Amato. After taking control of Italy’s even more sordid answer to the French Emmanuelle and its offspring with the second film of the series, he has unflinchingly demonstrated in movie after movie that softcore porn can be just as filthy and devoid of redeeming social value as the hardcore variety.
A man discovers an ancient Incan formula for raising the dead, and uses it for a series of revenge murders. Death Smiles at Murder…and horror admirers all over the world salute Joe D’Amato for delivering this film, by which he proves that he’s not just an insane and untalented adult-filmmaker.
Italian army officer Elio (Al Cliver) returns from the Ethiopian campaign with a slave girl (Laura Gemser) in tow — and her introduction to the household has a devastating effect on his wife, Alessandra (Lilli Carati), who has been carrying on a sordid affair with his secretary,
While hanging around Africa for some reason, intrepid reporter/photographer “Emanuelle” (Laura Gemser) stumbles across a white slavery operation (OK, so it doesn’t exactly make sense to have a WHITE slavery operation in Africa where hardly anyone is white, but oh well).
One of the most mysterious of all the films by Joe D’amato isn’t that much of a mystery anymore. Like many of his other films from this period, D’amato often made good use of whatever footage shot by using it more than one project. In this instance re-cycling about 40% of the 1976 film Eva Nera (Black Cobra Woman),
During the childhood of manhood: while some peoples just have discovered the fire, others already use technology. Inventor Akron discovers the ‘radiating matter’ which can be used to make earth a paradise, but also to make it hell. Soran, a strayed former pupil of Akron, steals his invention.
This is uncut | uncensored version. Emanuelle meets a man named Dr. Malcolm Robertson (Ivan Rassimov) who opens her eyes to more then just sex. Reluctantly she accepts an assignment to go to India to interview a guru named Shanti (George Eastman) who claims he has perfected the ultimate orgasm.