“E-‘MAY’-NUELLE”
FORMAT: BLU-RAY
After a one film absence, Emanuelle (Laura Gemser) came back for this second sequel to Porno Nights of the World. She begins our journey of perversion with a drive down the Las Vegas Strip. Once she’s back in her home, she tells us about seance where the spirits possess the female participants into disrobing. We then witness a black magic ritual that ends in an orgy, an adult carnival with midway games that give away blow-up dolls instead of kewpie dolls, a magician who makes audience members’ clothes disappear, and a stripper whose costume is made up entirely of ribbons, and her customers must pay to pull each strand.
In a scene reminiscent of Emanuelle in America, a stripper named Lady Godiva lets her horse get into the act, if you know what I mean. Trans exploitation star Ajita Wilson (who starred in Porno Nights of the World No. 2) makes a cameo photographing an orgy. Next, Ajita takes in a lesbian live sex show. There’s also a private club where a male bodybuilder causes the clientele (mostly a bunch of old ladies) to writhe back and forth in ecstasy, a behind the scenes look at the making of a porno that ends with filming a scene where an actress plays hide the snake literally (perhaps a callback to the infamous scene in Emanuelle Around the World), an S & M club where a woman escapes her ropes before banging two guys dressed like gangsters from the ‘40s onstage, a club in Montreal that specializes in “bubble bath boxing”, a sci-fi themed nude ballet, a televised striptease competition where the rowdy crowd pelts the losers with rotten vegetables, and a coed nude beauty contest.
My favorite bit had an unhappy housewife bringing her husband to Tokyo to receive a penis transplant. This scene contains some really fake looking prosthesis and phony looking gore during the operation. The stereotyped dubbing on the Japanese doctors is hilariously bad too. Another highlight is a cabaret act featuring “Snow White” and her four dwarfs. (Gemser explains the other three “Got jobs as short order cooks”!)
The most tasteless scene occurs in the New Guinea segment where tribesmen go through great lengths to ensure their bride is a virgin on their wedding night. Footage of the (obviously faked) wedding night is intercut with real shots of piglets being beaten and butchered, which was totally unnecessary.
Once again directed by the duo of Bruno Mattei and Joe D’Amato, Emanuelle and the Porno Nights of the World may not be as entertaining overall as its predecessor, but it is a little bit more consistent from segment to segment. It also benefits from a snappier pace and some humorous commentary by Gemser. (“What would you do if a flying saucer landed in your cabbage patch?”) If you go into it knowing what you’re in for, I’d say you probably won’t walk away disappointed.
AKA: Emanuelle and the Erotic Nights.
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