Erotiko pathos

is must be one of the rules of being ladies' men. In this B type softcore feature, Monica Nickel -a German/Greek playboy playmate- plays a coming-of-age girl Della, a seductive beauty who is on hunting for mature men to drive them wild towards having all types of foul sex, public sex and skinny dipping. But neither of the scenes involve gay/lesbian interest nor any male nudity hardcore elements. Monica Nickel is a playboy playmate and she will show all, of course, with a couple of other older females joining her. The sex scenes are so soft in the style of Emmanuelle series, but still they are motivating and rolling with high temperature.

Read these critic, if you will, prior to watching the movie, so you will know what to expect. I promise that there are no spoilers.

There are many qualities that makes this film a good romance flick either than being a Poison Ivy type seductive crime. How can a girl steal some other girls' boyfriend without being a spoilsport to that girl? She can if she is as smart as Della. All Della wants alongside the movie is to be a grown-up girl. She is doing what she thinks mature people do. And the world around her obeys her dream. It's a small and pink world, that she can fall for a criminal and can easily save him from being charged for a new crime.

Her fugitive boyfriend convinces her not to kill her aunt reminding her that every girl has the potential to be a mother one day, and hence they have to respect other mothers no matter what. Such a ladies' man!

The crime is not this movie is made of. It's a coming-age drama softcore with all the plausible reasons for a girl to go rebel and go berserk against everything that can stop her from being grown-up so quick, while at the some time -with all of her innocence deep inside- falling for wrong men.

Neither the story or script is engaging for professional aspects. Don't forget; this movie is a softcore/romance movie and can only be watchable for these purposes. When you have this purpose and got everything ready with your sweetheart for a soft and tender night, you'll enjoy it all, with all the music, the settings, the atmosphere, the innocence, the soft and pink world where nothing good or beautiful happens except love.

With all the music, the settings, the atmosphere, the innocence, the soft and pink world where nothing good or beautiful happens except love.

What follows below is the lyrics of the song at the opening credits that takes us to these pink crime world:

" It's only love

Keeps me alive

If you should ever leave me

That I'd just die of your sadness

I hope you understand

With such a feeling

With such a deep emotion

I'll give your love my devotion,

Tenderness and passion

It's only love

So don't be afraid

If some time I get angry

'cause I don't feel any more loneliness " (music by Giovanni Ullu)

(song and lyrics uncredited)

Needless to say that I had indeed never heard about the 1981 crime drama "Erotiko Pathos" (aka "Erotic Passion") from writer Vangelis Fournistakis and director Ilias Mylonakos prior to stumbling upon it by random chance here in 2025. And truth be told, I harbored zero expectations to the movie, as I sat down to watch it.

The storyline in the movie was overshadowed by the pornographic contents. Yeah, this movie is definitely a sleazefest, and it made for very poor entertainment.

Unfortunately I stumbled upon an English dubbed movie, and it was pretty terrible dubbing, which just made the characters seem like cartoon characters at times. I never enjoyed dubbing in movies, so this wasn't sitting well with me, nor reflecting overly well on the overall enjoyment of the movie. Yeah, I would have preferred to watch the movie in the original Greek language.

Given the fact that this was actually my first Greek movie, then I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list. But putting the lousy English dubbing work aside, then the acting performances in the movie were actually fair.

This was a swing and a miss of a movie, as it was utterly and totally devoid of entertainment value. This was softcore pornography, plain and simple. No my kind of entertainment, thank you very much.

My rating of director Ilias Mylonakos's 1981 movie "Erotic Passion" lands on a one out of ten stars.