Emanuelle and Francoise

Callous macho stud Carlo (well played to the hateful slimy hilt by George Eastman) drives his sweet and vulnerable lover Francoise (an appealing portrayal by fetching brunette Patricia Gori) to commit suicide by kicking her to the curb after having his wanton way with her. Her sister Emanuelle (a fine and credible performance by foxy blonde Rosemarie Lindt) decides to exact a harsh revenge by chaining Carlo up in a secret room in her house. Infamous Italian sleazemeister Joe D'Amato, who also co-wrote the sick script with Bruno Mattei, keeps the engrossingly sordid story moving along at a steady pace, maintains an appropriately harsh seamy tone throughout, and ends the seedy plot on a pleasing grim note. Moreover, D'Amato not only delivers an extremely satisfying serving of tasty bare female flesh and sizzling soft-core sex (a lesbian threesome rates as a definite arousing highlight), but also tosses in several moments of hideously gruesome violence for gory good measure. D'Amato's slick cinematography provides an impressive glossy look. Gianni Marchetti's groovy melodic score hits the funky-grinding spot. A nice slice of prime 70's Eurosleaze.

Unfortunately, the late, great Joe D'amato left his favorite horror format for this mixed-up caper of romance, revenge and the powers men and women hold over each other. There is very little gore here, but many relationships. This spells disaster for a Joe D'amato Pic. Obviously, Joe wanted to branch out from his usual Gore and Chicks flicks..but this bomb will put you to sleep...or hurt your finger from holding down your VCR's Fast Forward key. Take my advice, Skip It!

Laura Gemser sits out this time, but Rosemarie Lindt is here and ready, willing and able to disrobe at any given opportunity. She's Emanuelle, a successful fashion model with one problem...she has just been raped by a vile behemoth (big guy George Eastman). To get revenge, she seduces, drugs and then chains her attacker up in a secret room behind a one-way mirror where he must watch in sexual frustration as she taunts and teases him with a parade of men and women she brings home to play with. Not surprisingly for a D'Amato movie, this is not your standard sex film. Despite lots of flesh baring, it's far from being erotic. There's violence, gore, full frontal nudity, warped dream sequences, rape, hardcore dinner table * scenes (in the uncut version anyway) and much more that you may not expect. Memorable bits include a sick-o nightmare sequence with Lindt being pinned down by four women and raped with a wine bottle and the finale, where someone in the cast ends up a gory mess after being chopped up with a meat cleaver. And no, none of this is as entertaining as it sounds. Low production values, bad dubbing, crummy plotting, bad acting and time padding make it a chore to sit through. On video this was available in both R or Unrated versions (Unrated is the one I saw). View at your own risk!

This is a pretty nasty little film but I really like it. Unusually for a revenge movie, after a brief introduction we are into the revenge stage even before we know it and there are flashbacks throughout the film to show us very clearly why this revenge was necessary! George Eastman seems just a little too cruel at first and his little innocent girlfriend a bit of a Justine who seems to get treated all the worst for trying to be so kind. Still, once we are off we really are with all manner of extreme behaviour on show. The more explicit outtakes/inserts are here presented as extras rather than within the film itself and both are the better for it. Spirited performances from all concerned and flesh on show from the opening credits till the delirious finale. Enjoy, just don't forget the cold shower afterwards!

This movie is quite literally the Batman and Superman of Italian sleaze filmmaking uniting to create some art. Those two men have many, many names, but for the purposes of this article, we'll use the names that they used most often: Joe D'Amato and Bruno Mattei. Producer Franco Gaudenzi wanted to bring the movie The Wild Pussycat to Italy, but it would have never made it past the Italian censors. For some reason, if the movie was made in Italy, it would pass. This is the country where it's legal to call your movie Zombi 2, but illegal to use Mrs. Ward's name. Let's forget the complexities of law when it comes to exploitation cinema and move on. D'Amato and Mattei took up the challenge of remaking this movie for Italian audiences with both writing the script and co-directing the picture, even if only D'Amato got directing credit. What was important for the producers was that the film could play theaters and it passed the Italian censorship board on November 5, 1975 after some lesbian elements and scenes with sodomy were removed. Ironically, when this was brought to Switzerland by Erwin C. Dietrich, he added in actual hardcore scenes with French actress Brigitte Lahaie (who is in Fascination) and dubbed it into German, releasing it as Foltergarten der Sinnlichkeit (Torture Garden of Sensuality) and Die Lady mit der Pussycat (The Lady with the Pussycat). Truly, scumbag pictures bring all the nations of the world together, do they not? Francoise (Patrizia Gori, The Return of the Exorcist) has had enough of the abuse from her gambler cad of a husband Carlo (George Eastman!), so she jumps in front of a train. Her sister Emanuelle - no, not Laura Gemser just yet, she's played here by Rosemarie Lindt from Salon Kitty - gets revenge by drugging Carlo and restraining him in a soundproof room. There, she teases him through two-way mirrored glass as he's forced to watch her make love to numerous men and women, all while he's repeatedly dosed with LSD. Finally, Emanuelle enters the room and attempts to castrate Carlo, who has been repeatedly fantasizing about killing her and finally does so for real. His joy is short-lived as while he's hiding in the secret room, he gets locked in and the police closed down the crime scene for thirty days, basically leaving him to die. Also known as Emanuelle's Revenge, Blood Vengeance and Demon Rage, this is exactly the kind of movie that you'd imagine D'Amato and Mattei would make together, filled with numerous sex scenes, frequently spinning and zooming camera angles and a cannibalistic feast sequence. Back when we reviewed Emanuelle In America, the guys at Severin said, "If you thought that was rough, watch this one." Their release has a great George Eastman interview in which he says that D'Amato had the ability to do bigger and better things, but preferred doing ten B movies a year than one A film. You can get the Severin edition of this film and see just how good-looking a completely irredeemable piece of trash - I say that with love - can look.

It's funny to see George Eastman playing a 'hunk' here, a few years before he put on a few more pounds and became notorious for playing the likes of The Anthropophagous Beast and 'Big Ape' from 2019:After The Fall Of New York. This is a bit slow and it doesn't contain any truly disturbing scenes like Emmanuelle In America, but it is worth seeing. The premise is good and the ending is quite Poe-like, almost - quite a tragic tale. Performances are pretty lame, despite what someone else has said here, Eastman isn't very good really. Some funny sleaze set-pieces and the bit at the end with the racing cars has a big 'WTF?' factor, as they say on the internet... Excellent, ridiculous Italo-psych score and the club scene is hilarious too. Not one of Joe's best, but god damn he wasn't lazy with the work-rate was he?

Not what I expected from D'Amata who is mostly known for his gore/* films but its somewhat of a different film. You have the big anthropophagus himself George Eastman as a selfish gigolo/actor who obviously causes the death of his pushover model girlfriend. We find out that Carlo's (Eastman)girlfriend has a sister and its no other than Emmanuelle (being played by someone else other than Laura Gemser here). After finding out the humiliation Carlo put her sister through Emmanuelle exacts her revenge by chaining the poor sap in a secret room in her house and drugging him up causing him to have hallucinations. The whole affair is slow moving but it has its perks: some 70's bush (if your into the rug look), slew of soft core scenes and some bizarre hallucinations involving cannibalism, we even get George Eastman reprising his Anthropophagus role with his big meat cleaver! Genre buffs will dig this, you'll need it to complete your emmanuelle collection otherwise I found myself drifting in and out of it.

In this (Reportedly a remake of a Greek film of the 60s) Joe D'Amato guilty pleasure, goes a beautiful mature agent woman Emanuelle (Rosemarie Lindt - exploiting only the famous name) making a plan against an evil, giant playboy (Habitual George Estman) for murder her sister Françoise of solitude. Is undeniably kinky and trashy, but the music, the photograpahy (Of D'Amato itself) and the composition makes more than worthwhile and it really works! Still, be sure this is not for every taste ... Is a D'Amato film, and one of his best. With Patrizia Gori and Mary Kristal, in color by Luciano Vittori. Still a hard to get DVD overseas. Also known as Emanuelle's Revenge.

Prolific sleaze maestro, Joe D'Amato, directed this flick before the sexy Laura Gemser became the star of the series, and for that reason; we have Rosemarie Lindt, from cult flicks such as Salon Kitty and Who Saw Her Die, taking the lead role. This puts the film on the back foot from the beginning, as Lindt doesn't bring the same amount of sassiness to her role as Gemser does, and the film is a less memorable entry in the series for that reason. Actually; it would appear that Emanuelle's Revenge wasn't intended to be a part of the Emanuelle series, and only got the title due to it's director's affinity with it. The fact that it's alternate, and more fitting, title is 'Blood Vengeance' shows this clearly. Anyway, the plot is a little bit more involving than most porno flicks, as it plays out like a thriller. We follow a young woman called Emanuelle who gets her revenge on the man responsible for her sister's death by chaining him up in her basement and forcing him to watch her having sex. The Emanuelle character is nothing like the one played by Laura Gemser, as the young lady here has a sadistic streak a mile wide. The ending alone, without what precedes it, shows this clearly enough! Despite being more of a thriller than most Emanuelle films; Emanuelle's Revenge still finds more than enough time for sex scenes. The entire film feels very low rent, and the sex sequences do too; they're not terrible, but they're also not very erotic, and the fact that most of the film is filled with these scenes doesn't do it many favours. Emanuelle's Revenge is sure to please fans of seventies Italian films, however, as it's dripping with the typical sleaze style, and this is helped by the music and cinematography. The acting isn't especially brilliant and the film suffers from poor dubbing as always. Not having seen much of the Emanuelle series, I can't really say how good this is compared to the others; but in its own right, it's not too bad. The thriller structure is good, and the way that the film is consistently sleazy is sure to please also.

I was both disappointed and impressed with BLOOD VENGEANCE (aka EMANUELLE'S REVENGE). On one hand, I was hoping for some of the hard-core sex and perversion that punctuates many a D'Amato production. ON the other hand, the story-line in this one is pretty strong, and although the acting isn't the best (as is usually the case with these sleazy low-budget Italian films) the plot and how it plays out carries the film rather well... Francoise is a sweet young girl with a scumbag boyfriend named . He treats her like garbage and uses her as his scapegoat when he gets into gambling or other problems. After she catches Carlos cheating on her and Carlos kicks her to the curb, Francoise commits suicide. Enter Emanuelle (played by Rosemarie Lindt in this installment), Francoise's big sister who learns all about Carlos and what a douche he is. Emanuelle plots a twisted revenge for Carlos which doesn't work out quite as planned... BLOOD VENGEANCE doesn't feel like an Emanuelle film - it's more just a semi-erotic revenge thriller. The sex is mainly dull and un-explicit, yet there's still a few good, sleazy moments - including a deliriously hallucinatory dinner scene which is one of the highlights of the film. I also enjoyed the somewhat unexpected ending - I was caught off-guard as to how everything eventually played-out and liked the "dark" resolution. Not a great film and not one of my D'Amato favorites - but definitely worth checking out for 70s exploit fans...7.5/10