Legendary sleaze maestro Joe D'Amato directed this dirt bag of a movie (among many other similar films) in the golden days of the 70's. Emmanuelle in America stars beautiful Laura Gemser as a reporter, and the plot involves her as she is forced to do and watch horrible things in order to do her job. This includes making love to every male she meets, seeing some disgusting perversions and finally very vile snuff takes on video. In other words, this film is exactly what the whole exploitation genre is about.
I found couple of scenes very off putting, and I don't think too many can say they actually LIKED this one. I understand that horror fans and marginal cinema lovers will want to check this out just as a curiosity, but it is very hard to imagine anyone liking what they see. Well maybe some perverts out there..The most disgusting thing was the genuine "horse masturbation" scene near the beginning, and that is something only D'Amato could have the guts to show, I think. There is also pretty large amount of hard core porn footage so if you can't handle XXX material, stay away as well. There is one orgy scene in which room full of people scre* with one another, and that is REALLY dirty scene. I think you have got the point by now what the film is about, so no more about these scenes; After the slow beginning, the real nature of the film reveals, and that consists mostly of scenes mentioned above!
The notorious snuff scenes at the end are fake, but so incredibly realistic and made me feel VERY sick. How the heck would someone like to shoot stuff like that? Shame on you, D'Amato! They are as gratuitous as this film as a whole, but maybe this had its audience, because otherwise D'Amato wouldn't have made this in the first place. That's why because he always knew what public wanted and made movies only because of money. He has also done couple of better films which can be seen as real films, too, and they include the legendary Anthropophagous the Beast and Goblin composed Buio Omega. D'Amato was businessman in the field of cinema, but fortunately there are also some noteworthy films in his filmography. And he has also produced many great films, like Michele Soavi's brilliant debut Aquarius (internationally known as Stage Fright and Bloody Bird) so his career was definitely not bad, as a whole.
Emmanuelle In America is legendary sleaze fest and as dirty as this kind of trash can be. Only twisted minds like me want to check this out, but I don't think many will actually like what they see. Even exploitation and trash can be worth many viewing times and cinematically noteworthy, but that cannot be said about Emmanuelle in America, in my opinion.
5/10 but very difficult to tell why!
