Released by Full Moon Features, who honestly has some really good movies to share, this one feels like it was picked up for a dime and just as much effort was put into its release. The film tries to be one of those Mondo films of the past, films that captured shocking moments behind the scenes around the world of things best not spoken of in mixed company. And yet every sequence here takes place in mixed company.
Disco songstress Amanda Lear is our so called hostess taking us on a journey to hidden locations where we witness various strip clubs and cabarets where there is plenty of sex taking place. Due to a “money shot” towards the end of the film there is little doubt it would have received an X rating when released unless it was released without a rating. All the sequences in the film seem as natural and realistic as a porn film made at the time so any sense of being an actual Mondo film is lost immediately.
Fans of Lear will be pleased that the movie includes her performing her dance floor tune “Follow Me”. If you’ve never heard of it join the crowd and I was alive during that decade. I’m guessing her entire fan club could fit on that same disco floor she performs on.
The film was directed by Joe D’Amato, a prolific director with over 19y directorial credits to his name. The Italian director worked in many genres but by far the majority of his films fell under the category of porn or light porn. These included the 5 films in the “black Emmanuelle” series. Along the way he made several notable entries in the horror genre but these movies were his bread and butter.
You can put glitz and glitter on a low budget porn film but
beneath that it remains a low budget porn film. That’s this movie. If you want
to see and extreme look at what the disco age was all about, at least from the
point of view of the elite few, then give this one a watch. Otherwise you’re wasting
your time.
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