Full Moon Entertainment, with sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has unearthed the original negative of prolific sexploitation filmmaker Joe D’Amato’s 1979 “documentary,” Crazy Nights, and will be delivering it on both DVD and Blu-ray for the first time on Sept. 7.
To our knowledge this is the first time that D’Amato’s Crazy Nights has been available domestically, with on film, VHS, DVD or Blu-ray. We have Amanda Lear, whose background as a performer could certainly be the subject of any documentary … throw in Salvador Dali, Bryan Ferry and David Bowie as her “mentors” during this period and that would make quite the story.
However, she serves here as performance bookends to a series of sexually-charged vignettes that are presented as examples of what is going on at the underground “club scene” during this period.
If the truth be known, D’Amato, who was busy cranking out Emanuelle films at this time (Emanuelle in America, Emanuelle Around the World Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals. etc. … it’s a long list), got access to Amanda Lear and shot an unscripted “documentary” with her singing (“Follow Me” and “Enigma”) and chatting to the camera. He then mixed that footage with bits and pieces of staged erotica and voilà, a complete movie.
It is reported that when Lear heard about the finished product she filed a law suit … and that’s probably why the film disappeared from view for all of these years.
On Sept. 7, from Full Moon Entertainment, comes the DVD and Blu-ray debut of Crazy Nights (presented as an English-dubbed version) from a new hi-def scan of the original negative. Come for the songs from Amanda Lear … stay for the show!!
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