Joe D'Amato Archives

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977)

Rating: ★★

Jul 8, 2013Erotica/Italian Cannibal Film

A bizarre cross between the softcore Emmanuelle films and the Italian cannibal film. It seems perverse to be watching beautiful bodies one minute and next showing their insides being spilled

Director: Joe D'Amato

Actors: Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti, Susan Scott, Donald O'Brien

Category: Horror

8 July 201325 June 2026 by Roog

Blue Holocaust (1979)

Rating: ★★★½

Mar 12, 2019Man's Necrophiliac Obsession

Italian horror cinema of the 1970s/80s had some of the most extreme material put on screen. Here Joe D'Amato directs a film about a young man with a necrophile obsession and pushes the material to extremes that take you back

Director: Joe D'Amato

Actors: Kieran Canter, Cinzia Monreale, Franca Stoppi

Category: Horror

12 March 20191 August 2026 by Roog

Anthropophagus (1980)

Rating: ★★

Feb 12, 2025Cannibal Killer

From the notorious 1970s/80s period of Italian cinema, this was listed as one of the notorious Video Nasties. This features a lone cannibal killer amok on a Greek island amid plentiful gore

Director: Joe D'Amato

Actors: Tisa Farrow, Zora Kerova, Serena Grandi, George Eastman

Category: Horror

12 February 202518 November 2025 by Roog

Porno Holocaust (1981)

Rating: ★★

May 20, 2026Zombie Erotica

From cult director Joe D’Amato, this throws together hardcore erotica and gory zombie film in a conceptually bizarre mix that leaves you scratching your head

Director: Joe D'Amato

Actors: Mark Shannon, Lucia Ramirez, Annj Goren, George Eastman

Category: Horror

20 May 202610 August 2026 by Roog

Endgame (1983)

Rating: ★★

Nov 18, 2020Post-Holocaust Action

Joe D'Amato directs one of the numerous 80s Italian Mad Max 2 copies. One of the very first films to depict televised human bloodsports later popularised by the likes of The Running Man and The Hunger Games

Director: Joe D'Amato

Actors: Al Cliver, Laura Gemser, George Eastman, Haruhiko Yamanouchi, …

Category: Science Fiction

18 November 202031 January 2026 by Roog

2020: Texas Gladiators (1983)

Rating: ★★

Aug 16, 2023Post-Holocaust Action

One of the numerous Mad Max imitators made in Italy. Directed by notorious adult director Joe D’Amato who pushes the material further than the other entries do

Director: Joe D'Amato

Actors: Al Cliver, Peter Hooten, Sabrina Siani, Harrison Muller, …

Category: Science Fiction

16 August 202323 April 2026 by Roog

Witchery (1988)

Rating: ★★

Jan 6, 2005Haunted Hotel/Retribution from Hell

Italian horror film featuring David Hasselhoff and Linda Blair that has little going for it bar some imaginatively gruesome deaths

Director: Fabrizio Laurenti, Joe D'Amato, Martin Newland

Actors: David Hasselhoff, Linda Blair, Hildegard Knef, Annie Ross, …

Category: Horror

6 January 200511 June 2025 by Roog

Frankenstein 2000 (1992)

Rating: ★

Mar 29, 2016Modernised Frankenstein

Supposedly a modernised version of Frankenstein, although what a story about a woman in a coma who uses psychic powers to resurrect a slow-witted handyman to exact revenge has to do with Mary Shelley's classic is anybody's guess

Director: Joe D'Amato

Actors: Donald O'Brien, Cinzia Monreale

Category: Horror

29 March 201610 May 2026 by Roog