Dangerous Game
Italy 1991. Director: Joe D'Amato
Cast: Carmen di Pietro, Jonathan Bertuccelli, David Dahlgren
Aka: Ossessione Fatale

In my opinion, this is Joe D'Amato's best and funniest film this side of the '70s (or at least since Eleven Days Eleven Nights in 1987). Written by the two Brunos - Bruno Mattei and Bruno Fontana - it basically concerns Liza (played by Carmen di Pietro, who has been in several other D'Amato softies) who works as a secretary for a film company who specializes in producing steamy sex films (Joe's own Filmirage maybe). One evening, when she's on her way home, she is robbed and subsequently kidnapped by a guy named Tony (Bertuccelli), a small time thief who has broken into her car. Tony forces Liza to drive home to her appartment where he rapes her in soft lighting. Next morning Liza takes her opportunity to stage a hasty revenge-plan. She drugs Tony and handcufs him onto the bed (like James Caan in Misery). Hot because of watching all those films on the job and inspired by its content she now intends to use Tony as her private sex-slave, torturing him with various kinky acts. And this being a D'Amato movie, the film offers two revenge plots for the price of one. Tony also has a homosexual partner in crime, Sonny (Dahlgren). Sonny believes that Tony has tricked him after a poker game (shown in the prologue), leaving him with a huge dept to the biggest baddest mafia boss in town. When Sonny sees Liza and Tony on TV (amazingly enough, they're guests on a party somewhere, sent live on TV) he decides to contact Liza who pays off his dept to the Big Boss Man and in exchange offers him the greatest revenge he could possibly ask for (he's homosexual, remember). Then, when Tony is released from his little prison he discovers that he has fallen in love with Liza and the two live happily thereafter. A must for serious D'Amato collectors around the world. Now, let's watch the fun again.

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