Joe D'Amato remade his own softcore hit as hardcore. The 90s were unhinged.
The whole thing is basically a hardcore remake of D’Amato’s very successful period softcore picture “L’Alcova”, which he shot ten years earlier with Carati, Belle and Gemser and Al Cliver.
Production
Surprisingly decent period sets for a hardcore quickie.
Costume
Ridiculous aristocratic wigs doing heavy lifting.
Director
Franco Lo Cascio
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Joe D'Amato directed both versions—1986 softcore with Laura Gemser, 1994 hardcore with Julia Channel—making this possibly cinema's only director-remade-himself-softcore-to-hardcore case study.
This represents the dying gasp of Italian exploitation's golden age, when even hardcore retained some production value before the internet killed the genre entirely.
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