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Rock-bottom D'Amato porn
lor_25 April 2011
It's a joyless experience sitting through Joe D'Amato's THE JOY CLUB, one of the least interesting of his 100-plus XXX effusions. I watched a DVD reissue as a bonus disk on a Japanese all-sex porn issue, #6 in the PLEASURE ISLANDS series from FantaDream.

Video consists of six desultory sex scenes, with the minimal dialog largely drowned out by idiotic narration. The previous IMDb commenter found it amusing and above average, both signs of severe brain damage.

Credits are against a backdrop of black & white stock war footage, and film proper begins with a Nazi officer interviewing a prospective whore for the new brothel, where high-ranking Nazis will get serviced. Example of the scintillating dubbed-dialog in this scene: "take it right down your tonsils" during a blow job.

Scene 2 is marginally watchable thanks to lovely Erika Bella servicing a stud at an outside wash area. A Nazi officer arrives to make it a threesome and double penetration. Entire film is claustrophobic, shot mainly in closeups to save on sets and any set decoration.

Another officer is interviewing prospective prostie in scene 3, notable for its dialog track being repeated -a very irritating device. A cute brunette services an officer in Part 4.

The madame of the brothel, described as "an Aryan daughter of the Third Reich" appears in segment 5, in which the Nazi uniforms are virtually the only budget item. This is one cheap whore house with zero atmosphere.

Final segment 6 marks the grand opening of the brothel, with girls in cheap gowns, cueing an orgy and lesbian sex. That's all she wrote.

After watching this junk, I turned to a new D'Amato release SEXY PIRATES which is a very good adventure film he cranked out during his final year on earth. Unlike the XXX garbage of THE JOY CLUB, it is recommended.
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2 D'Amato hardcore
Michael_Elliott7 March 2008
Joy Club, The (1996)

** (out of 4)

Joe D'Amato hardcore flick is a fake documentary telling (and certainly showing) how brothels came to Germany during WW2. Non-stop, unerotic sex is throughout but the dubbed narration is actually pretty funny and some of the stories told also get a few laughs, which makes this slightly better than some of the others I've seen in this genre.

Director Joe D'Amato will always be remembered for his horror films like BEYOND THE DARKNESS and ANTROPOPHAGUS as well as his long running Emanuelle series with Laura Gamser. After the Italian horror market dried up, D'Amato had a comeback with the softcore ELEVEN DAYS ELEVEN NIGHTS, which eventually led to the director doing porn titles. The director had previously mixed sex and horror in such titles as PORNO HOLOCAUST and EROTIC NIGHS OF THE LIVING DEAD but those films were a long way off from his later day porn.
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