Black Emanuelle and Perversion Story reviews!

Here's a lengthy review of Black Emanuelle's Box from Eccentric Cinema.

And a fun one from Horrorview.

And another from Robert Monell discovered on a Feedster blog.

And, for a change of pace, Louis Fowler sent us this review for Perversion Story, which ran in the Rocky Mountain Chronical:

PERVERSION STORY
(UNA SULL’ALTRA)
Starring Marisa Mell, Jean Sorel, Elsa Martinelli
Directed by Lucio Fulci
Severin Films

Most cult-movie fans hear the name Lucio Fulci and immediately think of his gore-filled Italo-splatter films of early ’80s, like Zombi II and The Beyond. While he’s known for those horrific, nightmarish interludes, he also had a long, rather illustrious career before them, making a few cheap sex comedies and spy films here or there, but mostly honing his future horror chops on the giallo circuit, directing Hitchcockian murder mysteries, like this one from 1969. (To be fair, there is little to no perversion in this film. U.S. producers often translated foreign titles into sexy, salacious ones to get asses into theater seats. It usually worked.)

George, a successful doctor and all-around philanderer, is an arrogant prick, which doesn’t help his case when his asthma-suffering wife is found murdered. George becomes the prime suspect, but along the way, with the help of his haute-couture photographing girlfriend, he meets a stripper who looks exactly like his dead wife.

The last 30 minutes get pretty pulse-pounding as George is sent to the gas chamber, waiting for the one piece of crucial evidence that can free him. Fulci really amps up the suspense in this flick, one of his best. A rare soundtrack of Riz Ortolani’s swingin’ score, included as a bonus disc, is one of the best bonus features I’ve come across in a DVD in quite a while.