CROSS WITH 7 JEWELS (1987) Annie Belle | Gordon Mitchell
3378DVD
"Uncompromisingly
Bad while being Spectacularly Wonderful!" There
has NEVER been anything like this!
Original
Italian Title: LA CROCE DALLE 7 PIETRE [The Cross with Seven
Jewels]
director: Marco
Antonio Andolfi
starring: Marco Andolfi (as Eddy Endolf) · Annie Belle · Gordon
Mitchell · Giorgio Ardisson · Zaira Zoccheddu
This
legendary (yet seldom seen) erotic werewolf movie from director/writer
Marco Antonio Andolfi is a cinematic Monte Cristo sandwich... uncompromisingly
bad for you while being spectacularly wonderful. Absolutely, there is
nothing else like it. And the blame - or praise - lies squarely on the
shoulders of Mr Andolfi who produced, directed, wrote, and starred in
it as well as handled all the special effects. He plays Marco Sartoni,
a young man who lives under the anguish of lycanthropy, a curse that
can only be controlled by wearing a jeweled cross on a chain around
his neck. Without that cross, at midnight, Marco transforms into a werewolf
(or rather, a naked man with spotty hair, sharp teeth and super strength),
a birth condition resulting from his mother fucking a gorilla monster
during a wild S&M satanic orgy.
Specifically, the plot finds Marco leaving Rome to visit his cousin
Carmella in Florence. But soon he becomes the victim of a street mugging;
and his cross is stolen. Desperate to retrieve it, Marco begins a search
which takes him into a brothel/dance hall (where he meets a whore with
a heart of gold who becomes his girlfriend), then into a hotbed of gangsters,
drug traffickers, terrorists and eventually into the bed of a psychic
prostitute.
This
is Marco Andolfi's only major contribution to filmmaking (although he
did co-star as a savage caveman in the quirky ADAM AND EVE VS THE CANNIBALS
under the name Antonio Andolfi). He has since moved to radio work and
is currently in his 20th year as an on-air personality in Rome. This
film would probably qualify as Gordon Mitchell's worst film if he hadn't
made SKIN
UNDER THE CLAWS back in '75. And it would be Giorgio Ardisson's
worst if he hadn't starred in horrendously awful DELITTI
(CRIMES) the previous year. After this film, Annie Belle - at age
33 and an array of movies (including Joe D'Amato's ALCOVE)
- quit acting and went to graduate school where she received a degree
in Psychology. Subsequently, she become a social worker in France for
people diagnosed with mental illness. Ms Bell continues to work in that
capacity today.
An
Italian Film with English subtitles; widescreen format (16:9), uncut (83
minutes), DVD encoded for ALL REGION NTSC WORLD FORMAT; extras include
original theatrical trailers.
Nudity/Graphic
Violence/S&M/Sexual Brutality/Whipping
Recommended For Adult Audiences Only
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