“E-‘MAY’-NUELLE”
FORMAT: BLU-RAY
Laura Gemser has a dream of a girl having an interracial threesome on the beach. Then, she finds her roommate dead of an overdose. Afterwards, she is whisked away on an assignment by her newspaper to infiltrate and bust a heroin operation.
Directed by Joe D’Amato, Porno Esotic Love plays like a half-assed Emanuelle movie with XXX scenes. In fact, it uses whole sequences from Black Cobra as padding and/or plot filler. (D’Amato did one better when he made Emanuelle’s Perverse Outburst as he used scenes from both this, Black Cobra, AND Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade.) Watching all four movies in rapid succession is a bit of a trip. I’m in awe of how Joe was able to use the same footage four times in a row and simply dub in different dialogue to make a “new” film. Sadly, being “in awe” doesn’t equal “entertained by”. If you’ve never seen any of the movies I’ve mentioned, you might enjoy it. (And that’s a big might.) For someone who just watched the same scenes in four different movies in two days, I have to tell you, it was a bit numbing.
What’s particularly interesting is the fact that the scenes of Black Cobra worked so well in their proper context. Now, they seem languid and half-baked when haphazardly placed in a slipshod and confusing narrative. The new plot scenes are mostly boring. There’s an especially long scene of Gemser and a gal pal shopping that just feels like gratuitous padding.
For a movie called Porno Esotic Love, there’s not much love here. I’m not even sure what the heck “Esotic” means, but I’ll be damned if I could find anything esotic about it. (I think something got lost in translation here. I don’t know if they were going for “Erotic” or “Exotic”, but they misspelled the hell out of it either way.) At least there’s some porno in there. Too bad the hardcore footage we get isn’t much to write home about as most of the scenes are indifferently performed and staged.
AKA: Exotic Love. AKA: Sexy Erotic Love. AKA: Porno Exotic Love.
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