Ladro d'amore - Giacomo Casanova

Thief of Love (1996)

* (out of 4)

Casanova is locked up in prison where he can look out his window and see a young couple having sex. His passion and heat explodes to the point where he must do something about it. Here's is yet another porno from Joe D'Amato but he's a long way from some of his earlier films. This one here is deadly slow, boring and features some rather bland sex scenes. D'Amato's cinematography is the one saving grace but you don't really come to a porno to see that.

Director Joe D'Amato will always be remembered for his horror films like BEYOND THE DARKNESS and ANTROPOPHAGUS as well as his long running Emanuelle series with Laura Gamser. After the Italian horror market dried up, D'Amato had a comeback with the softcore ELEVEN DAYS ELEVEN NIGHTS, which eventually led to the director doing porn titles. The director had previously mixed sex and horror in such titles as PORNO HOLOCAUST and EROTIC NIGHS OF THE LIVING DEAD but those films were a long way off from his later day porn.