Do you think that when Jack Palance bounded to the stage, ready to do one-arm pushups and accept his Best Supporting Oscar for City Slickers after being nominated for Sudden Far and Shane, that he had a flashback and said to himself, "I'm in the A list tonight, but man, how can it compare to being in a movie where Laura Gemser dances with snakes?"
Seriously, the man who would become a star again at the age of 73 has a wealth of roles in aberrant movies in his past, but playing Judas Carmichael in a Joe D'Amato movie may be the pinnacle. Or the pit.
Gemser plays Eva, a snake dancer who obsesses Judas, because he has a snake collection at home - as you do - and he wants to show it to her. So she finally gives in and moves in with him while confining her horizontal dancing to the ladies - including Candy (Ziggy Zanger, who Gemser would go on to appear in Black Emanuelle, White Emanuelle with, along with Nieves Navarro, and just writing that sentence made me a little faint). Judas' brother Jules (Gabriele Tinti) wants Candy all for himself, so he messes around with the snakes with her - which seems ill-advised - and she gets killed by a mamba. And then he doubles up and kills off Eva's lover Gerri (Michele Starck, Forever Emmanuelle) and ends up taking Eva from his brother!
Of course, that's not the end of matters. Eva's more devious than she looks. And so is Judas. I mean, if your mom names you Judas any time in a year that doesn't have BC in it, you're not going to turn out all that great.
Bruno Mattei edited this movie - a fact that makes me love it so much more - and it was also called Emmanuelle And The Deadly Black Cobra, Hot Pants and finally and most awesomely Emmanuelle Goes Japanese, which makes no sense for a movie set in Hong Kong.
Seriously, the man who would become a star again at the age of 73 has a wealth of roles in aberrant movies in his past, but playing Judas Carmichael in a Joe D'Amato movie may be the pinnacle. Or the pit.
Gemser plays Eva, a snake dancer who obsesses Judas, because he has a snake collection at home - as you do - and he wants to show it to her. So she finally gives in and moves in with him while confining her horizontal dancing to the ladies - including Candy (Ziggy Zanger, who Gemser would go on to appear in Black Emanuelle, White Emanuelle with, along with Nieves Navarro, and just writing that sentence made me a little faint). Judas' brother Jules (Gabriele Tinti) wants Candy all for himself, so he messes around with the snakes with her - which seems ill-advised - and she gets killed by a mamba. And then he doubles up and kills off Eva's lover Gerri (Michele Starck, Forever Emmanuelle) and ends up taking Eva from his brother!
Of course, that's not the end of matters. Eva's more devious than she looks. And so is Judas. I mean, if your mom names you Judas any time in a year that doesn't have BC in it, you're not going to turn out all that great.
Bruno Mattei edited this movie - a fact that makes me love it so much more - and it was also called Emmanuelle And The Deadly Black Cobra, Hot Pants and finally and most awesomely Emmanuelle Goes Japanese, which makes no sense for a movie set in Hong Kong.