Porno Nights of the World

1977 [ITALIAN]

Documentary

10
IMDb Rating 4.0/10 10 274 274

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Top cast

Nadine De Rangot as Beauty Contest Girl
Margrit Siegel as Beauty Contest Girl
Laura Gemser as Host
Claudia Fielers as Beauty Contest Girl
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812.27 MB
1280*720
Italian 2.0
NR
us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 3
1.47 GB
1920*1080
Italian 2.0
NR
us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 8

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Reviewed by 4 / 10

Emanuelle Takes a Cheap, Confused Trip Around the Sleazy World ?

This movie is an absolute mess, a glorious, confused disaster of 1970s exploitation filmmaking that feels exactly like you walked into a projection room where the crew spliced together a bunch of random footage they found lying around. You have to understand the Mondo genre; it is all about pretending to show you things you should not see, things that are "authentic" but are almost always heavily staged or outright faked, and this one leans hard into the faked spectacle.The anchor here is Laura Gemser, and bless her heart, she tries her best, maintaining that cool, almost anthropological detachment that made the Emanuelle movies tick. Her voice-over narration is the only thing attempting to provide a sense of structure, sounding both vaguely disapproving and terribly amused by the sleaze she is introducing. She is the sophisticated tour guide leading you through a dive bar, and her presence is the single most compelling performance because she is somehow selling this nonsense as necessary viewing. The visual composition, though, is uniformly cheap, the kind of grainy 1977 stock that screams "budgetary constraint" in every poorly framed, dimly lit shot.It felt exactly like being shoved onto a terrifyingly unpredictable carousel; the pacing is completely manic, never landing on a single tone. One minute, you are watching a remarkably awkward Amsterdam prostitute casually disrobe in a window before inviting a man in for a "free session," and the next minute, the film careens into scenes of horrific violence. Specifically, the alleged punishment of an adulterous African couple, which is gruesome, sudden, and deeply unsettling. The tonal whiplash is enough to give you actual whiplash, honestly. You are toggling between softcore novelty, like the baffling nude roller-skating, and something that feels genuinely like a snuff film, even if you suspect the violence is manufactured purely for shock value.I cannot get over a few specific moments, they just stick to the brain like lint on velvet. First, the stripper who performs with a man in a gorilla costume; the entire thing is so profoundly silly, so devoid of eroticism, that it circles back around to high camp, a moment I actually laughed at out of sheer disbelief. Second, the sequence where Great Omar, supposedly a world-class lover, completely exhausts himself after bedding about 24 screaming women on stage, only for the audience to suddenly boo him. It is a perfect, pathetic little narrative arc, a commentary on performance anxiety that totally undercuts the film's supposed machismo. Then, of course, there is the notorious ping-pong ball stunt, which is not only physically impressive in a bizarre way, but it also encapsulates the movie's goal: to just throw things at the screen until the audience reacts, no matter how cheap or tasteless the spectacle.If you liked the chaotic, boundary-pushing lack of ethics in things like Mondo Cane or Africa Addio, but prefer a little more faux-erotic spice mixed in with your faux-ethnography, then this might be your trashy masterpiece. However, anyone who requires even a semblance of narrative cohesion, a decent budget, or a moral compass should absolutely stay miles away. This film is strictly for the hardened genre obsessive, the kind of person who studies sleaze as a historical document, enduring the discomfort to see what exploitation cinema was trying to get away with in the late seventies. It is a cinematic challenge, not a pleasure.
Reviewed by DocEmmettBrown

Dated, tame, occasionally amusing

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