Franca Stoppi Movies

Laura Gemser returns as Emanuelle Sterman/Laura Kendall in this rather extreme Italian-French women's prison film from Bruno Mattei (credited on some prints as "Vincent Dawn" and others as "Gilbert Roussel"). Emanuelle is sent to Santa Catarina Women's Penitentiary for drugs and prostitution, meeting the usual sadistic warden (Lorraine De Selle from Cannibal Ferox), lesbian inmates, and hookers with hearts of gold. Emanuelle is actually an undercover reporter for Amnesty International, and when this fact comes to light, she is tortured even worse. Mattei doesn't skimp on the nastiness, presenting a three-way catfight on a floor full of feces, Gemser nibbled by rats in solitary confinement, a homosexual who is sodomized to death after his straight cellmates are aroused by a striptease, and various rapes, tortures, and vomit scenes. Gabriele Tinti is the concerned doctor, who eventually gets a celebratory roll in the bushes with Emanuelle during the escape scene. Claudio Fragasso (Monster Dog) was the assistant director.
~ Robert Firsching, Rovi

Joe D'Amato, notorious director of numerous Euro-porn epics, manages to exploit even more perverse theme material in this necrophiliac love story about a disturbed young taxidermist so bereaved over the loss of his fiancee that he exhumes and preserves her corpse to keep him company. When the stuffed cadaver no longer offers erotic satisfaction, he sets out with the help of his spooky housekeeper to find a new bride, murdering any prospects who don't measure up to his twisted standards -- or sometimes just for the fun of it -- and dissecting them in his convenient in-home mortuary. As grotesque and graphic as this film may be, it is made all the more grim by its straightforward dramatic presentation (as if this were no more than a slightly off-kilter romantic tragedy), with atmospheric photography and a moody score by Goblin. Viewers who might consider the devouring of a human heart in poor taste are advised to avoid this film. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi