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Leofwine_draca EXOTIC MALICE is another film made by Italian exploitation director Joe D'Amato during his brief stay in the Caribbean. Once again the Dominican Republic locations are one of the most interesting things about it, bringing a touch of natural exoticism that the narrative itself can't hope to achieve. Unfortunately unlike other films D'Amato made during this era, EXOTIC MALICE is basically a piece of pornography with little else to distinguish it.The hard-faced Mark Shannon plays an ailing guy who discovers that due to a rare disease he'll have to have his genitals removed in two weeks' time. To that end he visits a tropical island to have some fun with the ladies, in long and padded-out sex scenes that supply the demand for pornography but do nothing else to further the narrative. Said sex usually involves the stiff (in more than one sense of the word) Shannon although another guy shows up later on and in one instance a white woman encounters a couple of black guys.It's all very sleazy and largely uninteresting. The best thing about the film is the sole piece of characterisation in the sub-plot involving Shannon being haunted by the ghost of his dead wife. This leads to a shocking climax which is inevitably the best part of the film and the only bit you'll remember. The script was written by George Eastman who has a cameo. D'Amato's camera-work remains inventive but even this quality can't hide the fact that this piece of exploitation was shot on the cheap on a very low budget.

aferdman D'Amato mentality is sure different from mainstream crowd movie-goers but is it good or bad, is it art or porno, is it possible to define? Its all depend on who you ask, right? So why I watch this B-movie from past but not something mainstream? Yes, why? Why I don't mention anything like "Citizen Kane" which supposedly timeless jewel? Simple. Because D'Amato reflect on my life and my experience, yes, somehow I feel connected. Any movie is a propaganda and propaganda have to be convincing, real and imaginative. Do I actually care what's movie about? No, I am expecting to be engaged by plot, music, actors, location, talking etc. Once upon the time I watch supposedly great movie about Vietnam with great Chuck Norris and how he is great and Vietnamese bad, then I ask myself--who invaded who--Vietnam invaded USA or USA invaded Vietnam? As the answer was self-obvious so great Chuck Norris suddenly not so great anymore. And so it goes.

jaibo This languid, sloppily shot Joe D'Amato hardcore shocker is a poem of sex and death, set to a soundtrack of 70s cocktail jazz and disco. Mark Shannon plays one Mark Lester, a middle-class American with a rich, sterile wife who learns (it what must be a first and last time twist in porn cinema) that he has some kind of cancer of the genitalia and needs to have them completely removed if he is to live. He makes a deal with his doctor that he can have 15 days grace before surgery makes him a eunuch and heads off to a Caribbean on which he formerly lived and where he left the love of his life to die. The film is a kind of Last Holiday of the penis….Like any hardcore film, the story is string on which to hang the sex sequences but it is hard to imagine what man would want to get off on a film in which the hero has the threat of complete castration hanging over him. The women are very beautiful yet the sex scenes themselves have a dead quality, as if the characters were performing under the weight of an incredible sadness; Nico Fidenco's melancholy scoring helps create this mood.Lester is a less than admirable human being. Not only did he betray the woman who loved him, he's clearly made his wife feel pretty inadequate about her sterility and made it plain to her that he married for money; he humiliates a European friend still living on the Island with a local, ex-prostitute wife by insisting that she have sex with him before he donates to their local school project; he murders an overweight Caribbean prostitute whilst cursing her as a slut (which is rich coming from such a sleep around as him). His friend is little better, and only tells Lester's wife where the dying man is after she has performed fellatio on him. Still, Lester seems to know that he is an unredeemed sinner, as he gets drunk, screws around, slips in and out of sexual fantasies and doubles up in pain from his carcinogenic bits.Definitely a product of a Catholic, Christian culture, D'Amato's Sesso Nero (literally "Black Sex") is a slow, depressing, conflicted and strangely compelling film. The denouement, where the dead girl and her family (through a mix of voodoo and deception) get their revenge on the man who wronged her, is both sudden and shocking. With its explicit self-emasculation, it rivals I Spit on Your Grave as a cinematic moment to make any man in the audience wince. As blood seeps from his self-inflicted wound into the sea, the protagonist dies a lonely, damned death in the arms of a memory, haunted by his sins.

Mathis_Vogel I used to own an average quality VHS tape of this film. Lots of hand-held, shaky but interesting shots(D'Amato's trademark style). Mark Shannon discovers he has got some sort of disease which requires his genitals completely removed. So he heads off to the Caribbean to try and make the most of the time that's left before the operation. There's a weird dream/foursome scene, where Mark Shannon is watching his ex-girlfriend and some older woman service two black guys(perhaps the same two guys as in Porno Holocaust, I don't remember). Overall this is much darker then either "Papaya" or "Orgasmo Nero". Shannon gets to play a really unpleasant type - perhaps the closest he ever got to "proper acting". Some moody music by Nico Fidenco plus a great final scene. I think the "Champagne bottle girl" from "Erotic Nights of the Living Dead" is in this one as well(and in a better shape), playing the hotel maid. George Eastman(who also wrote this) has a small role as Shannon's friend. There are some overlong unexciting sex/filler scenes, but D'Amato fans will understand. I wouldn't mind to have "Sesso Nero" on DVD.