Reviewed by

Christopher Armstead

As my nonsensical quest to watch every single Laura Gemser Black Emanuelle picture soldiers on, I am still of the mindset that the bronzed beauty could’ve really used a sausage biscuit with egg and extra cheese. Seriously, if the camera adds ten pounds then Laura Gemser during this time might’ve weighted about 36 pounds. Regardless, today we’re checking out ‘Emanuelle Queen of Sados’, also known as ‘Emanuelle’s Daughter’, also known as ‘Emanuelle Queen Bitch’ also known as ‘Emanuelle’s Sweet Revenge’ with all of these titles really having little to do with the actual movie. If I’m not mistaken the original title of this flick doesn’t even have Emanuelle in it. Plus I’ve looked all through my atlas and if you can locate Sados then you’re a better one than me.

Our film starts with Emanuelle having fake sex with this dude named Mario (Harris Stevens), a scene which will be burned in my memory forever due to the fact I saw my man’s nutsack squeezed back between legs. Other than the fact I wished I hadn’t seen this because it did look mighty uncomfy but I guess this is what dudes have to do in movies like this to keep embarrassing situations from popping up, so to speak. Anyways Emanuelle is sexing up this dude for no reason other than it’s what she does but the post coital conversation does lead to the woman giving this cat some loot to kill her abusive husband.

So this husband dies in a mysterious plane crash which leads to Emanuelle becoming the guardian of her dead husband’s teenage daughter Livia (Livia Brindisi) who is now the primary principle for the dead dudes estate. Now we get to watch Livia take a full frontal shower while Emanuelle watches which is made triply disturbing by the fact that Livia looks to be about thirteen. I would like to think that the actress was ‘of age’ during the filming of this flick but I’m not too sure about this.

Anyway Emanuelle and Livia go on a trip to Greece to check out dead hubby’s holdings and terrorize the dead husbands right hand man Robert (Gordon Mitchell). And to complicate matters Mario has to come to Greece as well, like we didn’t see enough of his bare ass in the opening scene. Just to keep you informed, your enjoyment of this movie may hinge on how much you enjoy looking at Harris Stevens’ bare ass since he sexes up or rapes almost every female in this movie.

There’s some other nonsense going on in this thing which also includes a Gabriel Tinti sighting, because we vets of the genre know you can’t have a Laura Gemser movie without shoehorning her late real life husband in the movie. Then there’s a shootout of sorts and then the movie ends. And the way ends almost makes me believe that the dubbed movie and the original language form of the movie are two separate beasts.

Directed by some cat named Ilias Mylonakos ‘Emanuelle Queen of Sados’ almost had me longing for the plotless nonsense of the Joe D’Amato Emanuelle flicks. Almost. Unlike those flicks which usually have Emanuelle just traipsing from one sexual encounter to another this one did try to insert some plot in between watching Harris Stevens screw, but in retrospect, this movie probably would’ve been better served by simply tossing the plot out of the window since our filmmakers introduced it only to pretty much ignore it just to fire it up yet again once Harris Stevens finished another rape session.

This one here was also a little disturbing. You would think that after watching ping pong ball shows, horse masturbation and titty cannibalism in Emanuelle flicks that we would be pretty damn jaded but Livia Brinisi’s sex scenes, considering she does have the body of an under developed thirteen year old was pretty damn unsettling. First there was her overly long shower, then her Blue Lagoon type love scene follwed by getting raped by Harris Stevens all of which served very little to the ‘plot’, particularly the rape. Then we had Harris Stevens sticking a womans head in toilet before ‘raping’ her because apparently this woman gets off on having her head jammed in a toilet.

‘Emanuelle Queen of Sados’, or whatever title it wants to call itself, does separate itself a little from the spate of Emanuelle flicks in that it does possess a little more story than the what we expect from an Emanuelle flick but this one lacks the ridiculous charm and outrageous silliness that fans of the series have come to expect. This one here was cruel, violent, a bit on the sadistic side (thus Sados perhaps) and borderline illegal in most countries. When a movie makes you reflect longingly on the simplicity bloodthirsty natives cutting off tits and eating them, we gotta problem.