Emanuelle's Revenge
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Emanuelle's Revenge also known as Blood Vengeance, Demon Rage and Blood Rage, is a 1975
horror film
directed by Joe D'Amato
.
It marks something of a watershed film for the director, as he made his first entry into the popular Emanuelle series, and also because he combined sex with extreme violence. The following year he began making the Black Emanuelle series with Laura Gemser
.
It was scripted by then unknown director Bruno Mattei
, the first of their collaborations together.
), and eventually she kills herself. Her sister Emanuelle then chains Cardi in a soundproof room with a two-way mirror, and tortures him by having sex with men and women, in which he cannot participate. Eventually driven mad, he proceeds to make his escape.
1975 in film
The year 1975 in film involved some significant events, with Steven Spielberg's thriller Jaws topping the box office.-Events:*March 26 - The film version of The Who's Tommy premieres in London....
horror film
Horror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...
directed by Joe D'Amato
Joe D'Amato
Joe D'Amato, was a prolific Italian filmmaker who directed roughly 200 films, usually at the same time acting as producer and cinematographer, and sometimes providing the script as well...
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It marks something of a watershed film for the director, as he made his first entry into the popular Emanuelle series, and also because he combined sex with extreme violence. The following year he began making the Black Emanuelle series with Laura Gemser
Laura Gemser
Laurette Marcia "Laura" Gemser is a Dutch-based actress of Indo descent, now Italian citizen. She is known for her work with director Joe D'Amato and Bruno Mattei, in particular, for doing a set of exploitation-style and Black Emanuelle films.Gemser has also been credited as Moira Chen, most...
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It was scripted by then unknown director Bruno Mattei
Bruno Mattei
Bruno Mattei was an Italian film director, screenwriter and editor who gained a cult following for a wide variety of exploitation films that covered many genres, ranging from women in prison to zombie films...
, the first of their collaborations together.
Plot
Francene is abused and degraded by her husband Cardi (played by Italian actor George EastmanGeorge Eastman (actor)
George Eastman is an Italian B-movie actor and screenwriter.Eastman was born in Genoa, Italy. He took his Americanized alias "George Eastman" when he was cast as a "heavy" in many spaghetti westerns made in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
), and eventually she kills herself. Her sister Emanuelle then chains Cardi in a soundproof room with a two-way mirror, and tortures him by having sex with men and women, in which he cannot participate. Eventually driven mad, he proceeds to make his escape.