Emanuelle's Revenge

{{Infobox film | name = Emanuelle's Revenge | image = Emanuelle e Françoise le sorelline.jpg | alt = | caption = | native_name =  | director = [[Joe D'Amato]] | producer = Joe D'Amato<ref name="mfb-review" /> | writer = | screenplay = {{plainlist|*[[Bruno Mattei]] *Joe D'Amato}} | story = | based_on =  | starring = {{plainlist|*[[George Eastman (actor)|George Eastman]] *[[Rosemarie Lindt]] *Patricia Gori *Karole Annie Edel}} | narrator = | music = [[Gianni Marchetti]] | cinematography = Joe D'Amato<ref name="mfb-review" /> | editing = Vincenzo Vanni<ref name="mfb-review" /> | production_companies = Matra Cinematografica<ref name="archivo">{{cite web|url=http://www.archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it/index.php/scheda.html?codice=AG3919|publisher=Archivo del cinema Italiano|title=Emanuelle e Françoise, ''le sorelline'' (1975)|language=it|access-date=June 10, 2016}}</ref> | distributor = [[Variety Distribution]] | released = {{Film date|1975}} | runtime = 96 minutes<ref name="mfb-review" /> | country = Italy | language = | budget = | gross =  }}

'''''Emanuelle's Revenge''''' ({{langx|it|Emanuelle e Françoise le sorelline|lit=Emanuelle and Francene, the Sisters}}, released in the UK as '''''Emanuelle and Francoise''''') is an Italian film directed by [[Joe D'Amato]]. It is a [[remake]] of the Greek film ''The Wild Pussycat'' (1969).<ref name="sracult" /><ref>{{cite book |title=The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films |date=1997 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-20970-1 |page=149 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHqQQf4pFHQC&dq=%22the+wild+pussycat%22&pg=PA149 |access-date=21 September 2022 |language=en}}</ref> Unlike the [[Emmanuelle|French Emmanuelle series]], to which it refers only in name, ''Emanuelle's Revenge'' has been described as being close to a sex-themed [[giallo]],<ref name="allmovie">{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/v245062|publisher=[[AllMovie]]|title=Emanuelle e Francoise: Le Sorelline|access-date=May 1, 2016|last=Firsching|first=Robert}}</ref> or as a combination of several genres: the [[rape and revenge film]], the [[splatter film]], the erotic film and the thriller.<ref name="Lupi 2004 52">{{cite book | last= Lupi | first= Gordiano | title= Erotismo, orrore e pornografia secondo Joe D'Amato |publisher= Mondo Ignoto |year= 2004 |isbn= 88-89084-49-9|page=52}}</ref> The film was written by [[Bruno Mattei]] and D'Amato.<ref name="mfb-review" /> Bruno Mattei co-directed the film with D'Amato, but only D'Amato was credited.<ref name="stracult254"/>

==Plot == A young woman named Francoise, who is abused and degraded by her gambler-husband Carlo, eventually kills herself by jumping in front of a train. Her sister Emanuelle avenges Francoise's death by drugging Carlo and chaining him in a hidden soundproof room with a two-way mirror, and torturing him by having sex with various men and women in front of the mirror, making him watch the torrid goings on without being able to participate. She also injects him with LSD and causes him to hallucinate scenes of cannibalistic orgies. While he is still locked in the hidden room, Carlo also hallucinates hacking Emanuelle to death with a meat cleaver.

As the [[coup de grace]] of her plan, Emanuelle enters the room and attempts to castrate Carlo with a scalpel, at which point he breaks free of his bonds and chases her around the house. Carlo eventually catches Emanuelle and butchers her in real life on her living room rug, when suddenly the police arrive at the house, alerted to the melee by a neighbor. Carlo retreats back into the hidden room and seals himself in to evade the police while they check the crime scene for evidence and cart poor Emanuelle off to the morgue, not realizing the killer is hiding behind the two-way mirror in the living room. Emanuelle's real revenge over Carlo occurs after her death, when Carlo realizes he locked himself in the hidden room without any water or food and the police have locked up the house as a crime scene for 30 days.

==Cast== * [[Rosemarie Lindt]] as [[Emanuelle]] * [[George Eastman (actor)|George Eastman]] as Carlo * Patrizia Gori as Françoise (credited as Francene) * Annie Carol Edel as Mira (credited as Karole Annie Edel) * Maria Rosaria Riuzzi as Pamela (credited as Mary Kristal) * [[Massimo Vanni]] as Robi * Eolo Capritti as Bald Film Producer (credited as Al Capri)<ref name="sracult">{{cite book|last1=Giusti|first1=Marco|title=dizionario dei film italiani STRACULT [''sic'']|date=1999|publisher=Sterling & Kupfer|location=Cles|isbn=88-200-2919-7|page=253}}</ref> * Giorgio Fieri as Alfredo (credited as Giorgio Fleri) * [[Luciano Rossi]] as Card Player (uncredited)<ref name="sracult" /> * [[Brigitte Lahaie]] (added scenes found in German cut only)

==Production== According to [[Bruno Mattei]], the idea for the film was born when producer Franco Gaudenzi wanted to distribute a Greek pornographic film by Dimis Dadiras entitled ''The Wild Pussycat''. Due to its explicit nature, the film would not have passed Italian censorship, which led to D'Amato and Mattei deciding to shoot a remake of it.<ref name="sracult" /><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Gomarasca|first1=Manlio|last2=Pulice|first2=Davide|title=Joe D'Amato. Guida al cinema estremo e dell'orrore|journal=Nocturno|date=2009|page=6|volume=78 (January)|issue=Dossier|url=https://shop.nocturno.it/products/nocturno-78-joe-damato}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Wild Pussycat / The Deserter |url=https://www.mondo-digital.com/wildpussy.html |website=www.mondo-digital.com |access-date=17 May 2019}}</ref>

Parts of the score in ''Emanuelle's Revenge'' were reused from [[Gianni Marchetti]]'s music for ''[[The Last Desperate Hours]]''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Curti|first1=Roberto|title=Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980|date=2013|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0786469765|page=214}}</ref> and ''[[Summer Affair]]'' (''Il sole nella pelle'').<ref>{{cite book|last1=Gomarasca|first1=Manlio|last2=Pulici|first2=Davide|title=La piccola cineteca degli orrori|date=2009|publisher=RCS Libri|location=Milano|page=201}}</ref>

==Release== ''Emanuelle's Revenge'' passed the Italian censorship board on November 5, 1975.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it/index.php/scheda.html?codice=AG3919|publisher=Archivo del cinema Italiano|title=Emanuelle e Françoise, ''le sorelline'' (1975)|access-date=21 August 2017}}</ref> According to Marco Giusti, some scenes of lesbian and anal intercourse were removed.<ref name="stracult254">{{cite book|last1=Giusti|first1=Marco|title=dizionario dei film italiani STRACULT [''sic'']|date=1999|publisher=Sterling & Kupfer|location=Cles|isbn=88-200-2919-7|page=254}}</ref>

In 1978, [[Erwin C. Dietrich]] bought the film, reedited it adding [[Hardcore pornography|hardcore]] inserts with [[Brigitte Lahaie]], dubbed it into German and replaced the original music with a score by [[Walter Baumgartner]]. This version was released under the German title ''Foltergarten der Sinnlichkeit'' (literally: Torture garden of sensuality).<ref name="allmovie"/><ref name="Lupi 2004 52"/><ref name="stracult254" /><ref>{{cite book|last1=Eppenberger|first1=Beni|last2=Stapfer|first2=Daniel|title=Mädchen, Machos und Moneten: die unglaubliche Geschichte des Schweizer Kinounternehmers Erwin C. Dietrich|date=2006|publisher=Scharfe Stiefel|pages=141}}</ref> A VHS-release of this version was titled ''Die Lady mit der Pussycat''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Eppenberger|first1=Beni|last2=Stapfer|first2=Daniel|title=Mädchen, Machos und Moneten: die unglaubliche Geschichte des Schweizer Kinounternehmers Erwin C. Dietrich|date=2006|publisher=Scharfe Stiefel|pages=180}}</ref>

==Reception== In a contemporary review, David Badder (''[[Monthly Film Bulletin]]'') stated that the film had characters that eschewed "any believable motivation", that "deadly dull sex scenes irritatingly tricked out with arty-crafty camera work, almost guaranteed to send the bulk of his frustrated audience into a deep sleep" and that the film was "burdened with a crushingly pretentious score".<ref name="mfb-review">{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Monthly Film Bulletin]]|volume=44|issue=516|page=232|year=1977|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|title=Emanuelle and Francoise "(Emanuelle e Françoise le sorelline)"|last=Badder|first=David}}</ref> The review negatively compared D'Amato's work to that of Italian genre filmmakers [[Dario Argento]] and [[Riccardo Freda]], stating that he had "none of [their] inspirational touches".<ref name="mfb-review" />

In his 1999 book on the film's director Joe D'Amato, Antonio Tentori found that it skilfully combined eros and horror.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Tentori|first1=Antonio|title=Joe D'Amato: l'immagine del piacere|date=1999|publisher=Castelvecchi|isbn=8882101487|pages=10}}</ref>

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== External links == *{{IMDb title|id=0074472|title=Emanuelle's Revenge}} *[https://www.varietydistribution.it/en/catalogue/francoise-and-emanuelle/ ''Emanuelle's Revenge''] at [[Variety Distribution]]

[[Category:1975 films]] [[Category:Films directed by Joe D'Amato]] [[Category:Emanuelle]] [[Category:1975 Italian films]] [[Category:1975 French films]] [[Category:Italian remakes of foreign films]] [[Category:Films scored by Gianni Marchetti]] [[Category:Films scored by Walter Baumgartner]]