New Emanuelle Collection DVD Set
A short break from our examination of the original Emanuelle series with this announcement that a new Emanuelle DVD set, THE EMANUELLE COLLECTION, has just been released (streeting yesterday, April 15th) from Media Blaster's sub-label, Exploitation Digital. Despite the titling, none of the three films included are from the original series, but rather either offshoots or retitlings of other films that take advantage of the Emanuelle name. The first film in the set is DIVINE EMANUELLE, otherwise known as LOVE CULT (1981), directed, written and starring the very blond Christian Anders. The second film is LADY EMANUELLE, aka TRADITA A MORTE (1989), an Italian film directed by Pasquale Fanetti. The third film is Bitto Albertini's YELLOW EMANUELLE, which originally was titled IL MONDO DEI SENSI DI EMY WONG (1977). Bitto Albertini was the director of the first two "Black Emanuelle" films--BLACK EMANUELLE (1975) and BLACK EMANUELLE 2 (1976). All films, which were previously released as individual DVDs from Media Blasters, have now been gathered for an inexpensive set that sells for less than $20. We will review all three films in the future, but they are worthy films in the European soft-porn genre prevalent in the 1970s and 1980s, and their presentations here, with deleted scenes and in proper aspect ratios, are impressive.
