I’ve been saying this for a while now: Hollywood should be making as many fake Emanuelle movies as they do fake Amityville movies as both titles are public domain and can be used by anybody. Leave it to the good folks at Cinema Epoch, who have made their share of both, to combine the two franchises into one and unleash Amityville Emanuelle on the world.
Things start off with a depiction of the DeFeo murders before flashing forward to the present. It seems that after Ron DeFeo died in prison, his now-grown son begins having horrifying visions. The daughter of George Lutz receives DeFeo’s ashes from a cuckoo friend of the family, and she too begins experiencing nightmares. The ashes then turn her into a complete horndog as she starts banging guys at the drop of a hat. (She even has a threesome with two random dudes she meets at a bar.) It’s then up to DeFeo Jr. to help her exorcise the evil spirits once and for all.
You know, it sort of makes sense to combine both Amityville and Emanuelle franchises from a financial standpoint. However, if you dive a little deeper, you’ll notice they sort of fit together rather well. Consider the original Amityville murders took place in November of 1974 and the first official Emmanuelle movie came out just a few weeks later. Makes you think, don’t it?
Speaking of thinking, I honestly think this might’ve worked better had the filmmakers called it “Amityville Legacy” or “Ashes or Amityville” or something along those lines. When you start putting “Emanuelle” in the title, it brings along a certain set of expectations, and if you can’t deliver on those expectations, then why even bother? I mean, no one is even called “Emanuelle” in the movie! Sure, the ashes turn our heroine into a sexually liberated woman, but she doesn’t do nearly as much humping as Emanuelle. So, that is a bit misleading. It also doesn’t help that she keeps her clothes on the whole movie, and that a lot of the sex scenes occur off screen, which is definitely not a good thing when you’re talking about an Emanuelle flick.
While it fails miserably as a fake Emanuelle movie, Amityville Emanuelle surprisingly isn’t too shabby of a fake Amityville movie. It contains at least one semi-effective scene where the ghost of DeFeo interrupts a group of friends who are playing with a Ouija board and blows them away. Also, bringing members of both the Lutz and DeFeo families together to stop the Amityville curse was a nice touch. Having sat through over twenty-five fake Amityville flicks in the past few weeks, you can trust me when I tell you this is far from the worst one out there. It’s just a shame the ending sucks.
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