Leofwine_draca EMANUELLE IN America is a notorious entry in Joe D'Amato's long-running 'Black Emanuelle' series, starring Laura Gemser. This one infuses the usual '70s-era softcore fumblings with some real nastiness and grit, making it an exercise in bad taste. But then you'd expect little different from the director who brought us ANTHROPOPHAGUS THE BEAST.The story goes that Emanuelle is now working as a reporter, taking on undercover assignments around the world. What this is an excuse for is a series of lengthy, pointless, and not particularly erotic sex and nude scenes, nearly all of them involving Gemser. The '70s-era fashions and the snazzy music make them amusing, but I'm not a big fan of sexploitation films so your mileage might vary.Where the film becomes notorious is in its uncut form. As well as featuring hardcore inserts, Gemser witnesses bestiality and a snuff film seemingly inspired by the ILSA franchise. As I watched the BBFC approved version of the film, most of that stuff was expunged, although I can't say I'm particularly bothered by that. EMANUELLE IN America is still a cheesy, below-par slice of Italian sexploitation, extra footage or otherwise.

Coventry Every installment in Joe D'Amato's "Black Emanuelle"-series stands for super-sleaze of the 70's, but "Emanuelle in America" triumphs when it comes to ultimate perversion and rancid sex-images. In this film, that almost qualifies as disgusting, our ambitious female reporter goes through four little adventures. She ends up in a Zodiac-harem, amongst a high-society orgy, in a resort where wealthy ladies buy sexual pleasure and – last but not least – in the heart of a snuff-movie network. Particularly this last chapter is mildly shocking since the snuff footage looks alarmingly real and the shown fragments doesn't seem to end! There's a minimum of plotting, but Laura Gemser's mesmerizing naked body makes you forget all that. In order to get the articles she wants, she has sexual intercourse with practically every male and female (or both at once) that walks over the film set. Dubious highlights (apart from the snuff-stuff) include a horse-masturbation sequence and a woman who has her nipple bitten off during a Tarzan fantasy. Enjoy, but watch out for censored versions.

Boggman You have to be in the right frame of mind to sit and watch "Emmanualle in America". If you are...it can be a blast. In this film, Emmanuelle's sexual misadventures continue-and she winds up going undercover and getting herself in the middle of a underground conspiracy smuggling snuff films into the United States. There not much of plot or acting here--just mostly soft core sexual scenarios with a few hardcore scenes as well. Beastiality..... check! 3 somes........ check! Lesbianism...... check! Orgies.......... check! There's a little bit of everything here. Most of it is soft-core but there are a few sequences that are definitely X-rated.The snuff film footage is quite realistic and disturbing--but intriguing nonetheless.All in all, this movie is all about sexual "visuals". Forget about storyline or any kind of acting ability.Times sure have changed--but "Emmanuelle in America" remains a titillating piece of erotica. Worth watching for the endless nudity or if your looking to try and "shock" yourself. This reviewer spent most of the film laughing his a** off! The title of this review refers to the horse "Pedro", which was my vote for the funniest part of this trashy little movie. ;-)

John Nail (ascheland) At its outset, "Emanuelle in America" is like most '70s Eurotica, with naked women cavorting through every other scene, frequently having simulated sex with whichever man happens to be around, or with each other. The "plot" is just a series of scenarios meant to move the title character from one sexy situation to the next for a little less than two hours. In this case, Emanuelle (Laura Gemser) is a libidinous fashion photographer and photojournalist who travels to various locations (and not just in America, though she is New York-based), not-so-surreptitiously snapping photos of wealthy people having sex (almost no one questions why she insists on wearing that ugly pendant, even while she herself is having sex). But mixed among all this softcore humpage are scenes of bestiality, hardcore sex and very graphic (but faked) snuff film footage. Perhaps what makes these scenes so "shocking" is the casual way in which they're presented. First you're watching a half-hearted lesbian coupling in a steam room, then next thing you know you see a woman fondling an erect horse penis (surprise!). Then it's back into hard-R territory, until you suddenly see a woman performing fellatio (on a man, not a horse), presented in a decidedly triple-X fashion--particularly jarring when, up until this point, Emanuelle's America is a land where men seldom even remove their shirts to have sex, let alone their pants. There's more hard-X scenes to follow (none of which involve Gemser), but whatever prurient thrills that provides are quickly dashed by the horrific "snuff" film footage that follows. Scenes of women getting hot oil poured down their throats and getting nipples torn off are a definite mood-killer, yet they're presented matter-of-factly here, making their brutality that much more appalling.That's not to say I hated this movie. The gorgeous Laura Gemser is a compelling screen presence, though to be a sex goddess she's quite detached in her sex scenes, looking more like she's posing for a still photograph. And though it's alternately goofy, tacky and revolting, director Joe D'amato makes sure "Emanuelle in America" is never boring. Love it or hate it, you'll never forget it.