What a waste of my time!!!

Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Extreme depravity, hardcore sex, and ultra violence: I'd heard that this sleazy offering from Italian trash-movie king Joe D'Amato (Aristide Massaccesi) was the epitome of exploitation, so I borrowed a copy from a friend and settled down to enjoy a prime slice of deviancy. Unfortunately, this supposedly spicy dollop of D'Amato sauce actually turned out to be rather bland.Laura Gemser plays Emanuelle, an investigative reporter determined to get her scoop, whatever the risk. Using her womanly wiles, she digs up the dirt on an organised-crime boss and his harem, some lust-crazed Venetian aristocrats, and a sex club for lonely women where our horny heroine eventually stumbles on the story of the century when she discovers a couple enjoying a genuine snuff movie.The first half of the movie is rather dull, packed with plentiful female nudity but hardly any of the 'rough stuff' that I had read so much about; only a brief scene involving a happy horse named Pedro is worthy of note.Eventually D'Amato hits his stride and, during an orgy scene, he delivers the first of many hardcore moments; from here on in, the XXX action is more plentiful, but the clumsy direction and editing means that they are far from erotic.At the end of the movie, Joe throws in a smattering of very gory pseudo-snuff footage for good measure, but this only serves to make the film feel even more disparate. The end result is neither a soft-core adventure, a hardcore porn movie or an all out gore-fest, but a disappointing (and often boring) half-assed mixture of all three.See it so that you can talk knowledgeably about the genre to like-minded sickos, but don't expect anything too amazing.

Many many movies are labeled as "exploitation" or "Sleaze", yet only contain brief moments of nudity or violence to back up the claim. Emanuelle in America on the other hand more than lives up to the billing as one of the most notorious exploitation films ever made. The bottom line for me is this, if a movie is too sadistic and sleazy for me to show my wife, then it's an exploitation classic. One feels like they are breaking the law when watching Pedro the horse get pleasured, or the snuff film scenes. Again, the mark of a movie that not only pushes the envelope, but rips it up and burns it as well.Don't expect much from the plot, even though there is a thread that holds this movie together. Don't expect much from the acting, even though it is much better than most films of its type. Do expect sexy scene after sexy scene under the most unusual of circumstances. The much talked about hardcore scenes are just that, hardcore, and give this film the extra push into total infamy. Being a fan movies that are unafraid to go for the throat I enjoyed Emanuelle in America for the boundaries it pushes. If you are looking for quality film making with life affirming messages, look elsewhere. If you are looking for a sleazy good time and the ability to say you saw a real exploitation gem then find this and enjoy.

Every installment in Joe D'Amato's "Black Emanuelle"-series stands for super-sleaze of the 70's, but "Emanuelle in America" triumphs when it comes to ultimate perversion and rancid sex-images. In this film, that almost qualifies as disgusting, our ambitious female reporter goes through four little adventures. She ends up in a Zodiac-harem, amongst a high-society orgy, in a resort where wealthy ladies buy sexual pleasure and – last but not least – in the heart of a snuff-movie network. Particularly this last chapter is mildly shocking since the snuff footage looks alarmingly real and the shown fragments doesn't seem to end! There's a minimum of plotting, but Laura Gemser's mesmerizing naked body makes you forget all that. In order to get the articles she wants, she has sexual intercourse with practically every male and female (or both at once) that walks over the film set. Dubious highlights (apart from the snuff-stuff) include a horse-masturbation sequence and a woman who has her nipple bitten off during a Tarzan fantasy. Enjoy, but watch out for censored versions.

Smut King Joe D'Amato does it again!!! Smokin' hot exotic beauty, Laura Gemser, plays a globetrotting nympho journalist in this incredible installment of the Emanuelle films. This one has everything - sleazy sex and lesbianism, insanely cheesy music and dialogue, simulated snuff footage, even some beastiality for you true sickos out there - it really doesn't get much better than this. EMANUELLE IN America should be THE sleaze standard that all other exploitation films aim to match.Emanuelle begins her adventures by going "undercover" (pun absolutely intended...) and infiltrating a harem run by a wealthy businessman. Lots of tits and ass ensue, including several soft-core lesbo scenes. The Boss is a man of pretty discriminating tastes as we're treated to the first real "shock" of the film - and a doozy it is - a voyeuristic "peep" at a chick graphically jerking off a horse named Pedro!!! Inside the harem, our heroine meets an Italian aristocrat and decides to use him as her next journalistic feature. After escaping the harem, Emanuelle goes to visit this refined gent, just to find that he too is a pervert with a pension for counterfeit artwork and orgy dinner parties. This scene gives us an opportunity to view our first "hard-core" action of the film, a pretty protracted blow-job scene. While at the party, our hardworking hottie learns of a secret brothel where women can indulge in any freakish fantasy...for a price. Of course Emanuelle smells another juicy scoop, so off to the meat-farm it is. There we get a few actual hard-core porn scenes, including a little Tarzan and Jane role-playing, and some 2-on-1 interracial action for one lucky young lady. While peeping in on the going's on at the brothel, Emanuelle comes across a room where a lady is getting boned while she's watching some snuff material on a projector. This piques our randy reporter's interest and she heads back to headquarters to consult her boss about tracking down some more snuff films for an exclusive story. Her boss gives Emanuelle a guy's name who's known to run in those circles, and our sexy scribe does what she does best - seduces this poor joker into giving her the info she wants. This scene has some pretty rough simulated snuff material in it, including: hot-tar dildo force-feeding, vaginal hook impalement, and some pretty graphic forced breast reduction. Emanuelle takes her findings back to her boss who tells her the material can never be released due to it's super-controversial nature. Peeved about the cover-up, Emanuelle heads to the jungle with her sometimes boyfriend Bill for some R&R - this scene feels pretty out of place and nothing of any real note goes on here - and that's about it.There are definitely some strange continuity faults with this film - such as the fact that all of the sex scenes in the beginning of the film are pretty light and standard 70's soft-core (with the exception of the stallion hand-job...), and then towards the middle and end, all the sudden we're treated to some pretty hardcore full on penetration sex action. Also the violence at the end is totally out of place with the rest of the film - but honestly, I find these quirks kind of endearing and actually help the overall "build-up" of the film. I also liked how tips from one undercover investigation made a smooth segue into the next investigation. My only real gripe is that the insanely hot Gemser is not shown in any of the hard-core sex scenes...this would have been a true "plearsure" and would have shot this film up to an 11. Personally I loved this film and hold it at the very top of the 70's exploitation genre out of all of the films of this type that I've seen so far. A definite must-see for fans of extreme sleaze - Highly recommended - 9/10