Movie Review: Savage Island (1985)

Savage Island (1985) - Italy - Exploitation/Women in Prison - Rated R
Directed by Nicholas Beardsley
Stars Anthony Steffen, Ajita Wilson, Christina Lai, Linda Blair, Leon Askin, Cintia Lodetti, Penn Jillette

A sexy woman enters into a highrise office complex for a meeting with a sleazy business tycoon. But this meeting is far from cordial and a surprise as he finds himself at gunpoint listening to her tell him a story of women who have been forced to work in a South American labor camp mining emeralds for a wealthy American tycoon; that would be him. But the prisoners of the labor camp along with a group of mercenaries hatch a plan of escape and of revenge against the sadistic and rapist guards.

Savage Island is not an original film, and I'm not meaning in its plot, but then it's not original in that either. It actually is a re-edited film taken from two Italian-Spanish films originally shot back-to-back with most of the same cast, Hotel Paradise and Escape from Hell (both 1980), with additional new footage shot as a wrap-around and stars Linda Blair and Leon Askin. Of the two original movies, Escape from Hell is the better film from a sleaze perspective, and not the least of which it has a more coherent story.

Savage Island merges the storylines from both movies into a shorter running time than either film. The downside is that the movie is choppy in places both because of the editing and because they are combining two movies in which some of the actors are different. On the upside, Savage Island has an abundance of nudity as it is taken from both of its parent films.

If sweaty naked women running around, showering in the open, ripping their clothes off and fighting among each other is not your cup of tea...then what the hell is wrong with you? Savage Island is pure sleaze aimed at slobbering males. It gives what men want in a women in prison movie without taking up too much time with a silly little thing called plot and story; and if you are looking for plot and story in a women in prison movie you are looking in the wrong sub-genre.

One major downside though is Savage Island was only put out on VHS and what DVD distributions of it that exist are from those VHS masters, so the quality is pretty low. Escape from Hell is the better alternative of the two original parent films, but both are available on DVD.

Recommend: Yes, it's full of sweaty naked women.

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Movie Poster: Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977)

 

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977) - Italy - Exploitation - Unrated

A.K.A. Trap Them and Kill Them

Directed by Joe D'Amato

Stars Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti, Nieves Navarro, Donald O'Brien

Working undercover as a journalist at a mental hospital, Emanuelle witnesses a female patient bite a nurse savagely. The patient tells her she was raised by a hidden cannibal tribe in the Amazon. Emanuelle and a team go deep into the Amazon to find this cannibal tribe, and unfortunately do and the usual rape, mutilation and torture ensue. Filled with nudity and gore.

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Movie Review: Lord Farthingay's Holiday

Lord Farthingay's Holiday (1972) - USA - Adult Comedy - Rated X
A.K.A. Afternoon Tease
Directed by Charleton Roberts (Joseph F. Robertson)
Stars Donna Young, Alida Tennant (Anna Travers), Casey Lorraine (Casey Larrain), Sandy Dempsey, Ron Darby

An at times slow movie for only 60 minutes is really brought up by the more than delicious beauties on screen naked and having sex.

Lord Farthingay, a British chap no less...righto, is arriving in the states for a holiday (that'll be a vacation for us yanks...jolly good). He will be staying at the Van Updyke estate, home of the snooty, but damn fine, Mrs. Van Updyke.

To make Lord Farthingay's stay an enjoyable one, Mrs. Van Updyke instructs Jeeves the butler to have some musicians play at poolside for the Lord. Looking up For Teas in the yellow pages, Jeeves gets momentarily distracted and when returning his attention to the yellow pages he ends up calling the listing For a Tease which is a sex for hire business, and unknowingly orders a trio of prostitutes for his lordship. Needless to say, Lord Farthingay is in for a hell of a holiday.

The setup of Lord Farthingay's Holiday is basic, as I have summarized, and beyond that it is simply naked women and men having sex interspersed with a few occasional moments of humor. At times the movie does drag, but the women are paricularly attractive with nice bodies which more than makes up for the occasional slowness of the film. Anna Travers, a creamy skinned redhead with near perfect tits, is exactly what I want for Christmas, and Casey Larrain is just damn fine and gets additional kudos for staying in character throughout the movie.

Though there appear to be some attempts at showing penetration on camera, there are fewer gynecological close-ups than with a xxx movie which makes this film more ideal for those who don't want in-your-face pussy, dick and cumshots but still want to see more of an x-rated movie than what an r-rated movie will show. Lord Farthingay's Holiday just verges on porn without actually going there.

Recommend: Yes, for the good looking women and the amount of nudity. Though X-rated, this is not XXX and probably would not appeal to hardcore porn fans.

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Movie Poster: Eaten Alive! (1980)

Eaten Alive! (1980) - Italy - Exploitation Horror - Unrated (X)
Directed by Umberto Lenzi
Stars Robert Kerman, Janet Agren, Ivan Rasimov, Paola Senatore, Me Me Lai, Mel Ferrer

Loosely, and very loosely at that, based in part on the Jonestown massacre of 1978, Eaten Alive is the story of a young woman searching for her sister who disappeared in the jungles of Southeast Asia. She becomes involved with a cult in which the leader violently abuses and rapes her and others. They eventually encounter cannibals. This movie is filled with rape, torture, explicit nudity, gore and animal cruelty. It was directed by Umberto Lenzi known well for his other cannibal movie Cannibal Ferox.

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