Category: Joe D’Amato

Ator: The Fighting Eagle (1982)

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Ator, an amazon, and a bear walk into a bar. Is that the opening line to perhaps the greatest joke ever told in the ancient world? Or is it merely one of about fifty great moments in the film biography of the greatest warrior to never have lived?

Let’s let it play out and then make the call. The amazon tries to steal some money for horses and gets into a confrontation with the bar patrons (calling it a bar fight would be much too generous), Ator sees a guy he knows and wanders away, and the bear just continues to eat. So it was both the greatest joke ever and one of Ator’s greatest adventures! Those ancients were tricky devils! Continue reading “Ator: The Fighting Eagle (1982)” →

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977)

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Once there was a movie called simply enough, Emmanuelle. Released in 1974, it starred Sylvia Kristel as a horny French gal living in Bangkok. Sporting such a powerful plot, the movie easily spawned about seven legitimate sequels. But this isn’t our Emmanuelle. You see our Emanuelle is known as the Black Emanuelle and if she had to sacrifice an “M” in her name to avoid being sued, she more than made up for it by ditching the French softcore style of the original for an even more trashy Italian style! Continue reading “Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977)” →

Heroes in Hell (1974)

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Heroes In Hell gives you an up close and personal look at the lives of a group of World War II POWs. It’s up close and personal not because you get to know the characters or you are treated to a day to day examination of what life in a German prison camp entails. It’s up close and personal because most of the freaking film is shot right in these guys’ faces! And it didn’t serve to build tension or give a sense of claustrophobic suspense so much as left the viewer straining to see around everyone’s big fat skull! Continue reading “Heroes in Hell (1974)” →