Eva nera (1976)

Judas, a wealthy playboy living in Hong Kong, is obsessed with snakes. His apartment is full of them, and he treats them as if they were his children. One night Judas' brother persuades him... See full summary »

Director:

Joe D'Amato

Writer:

Joe D'Amato (screenplay)

Stars:

Jack Palance, Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Jack Palance	...	Judas Carmichael
Laura Gemser	...	Eva
Gabriele Tinti	...	Jules Carmichael
Michele Starck	...	Gerri
Ziggy Zanger	...	Candy (as Sigrid Zanger)
Guido Mariotti	...	(as G. Mariotti)

Storyline

Judas, a wealthy playboy living in Hong Kong, is obsessed with snakes. His apartment is full of them, and he treats them as if they were his children. One night Judas' brother persuades him to accompany him to see a dance act at a nightclub. Judas is astounded to see that the act consists of a beautiful Asian woman who dances nude while holding a python. He is immediately smitten, and winds up hiring her to take care of his snakes while he's away on business. However, things start to take a sinister turn.

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Plot Keywords:

snake | nightclub | lesbian | grindhouse | female rear nudity | 

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Taglines:

Every New Embrace Brought Her Strange New Delights...

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Genres:

Drama

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

1980 (USA)

Also Known As:

Emmanuelle Goes Japanese

Filming Locations:

Elios Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company Credits

Production Co:

Matra Cinematografica

Technical Specs

Runtime:

98 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The British video release had cover illustrations from The Hot Girls, Penelope Pulls It Off and I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight, but none from the actual film itself.

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Connections

Featured in Joe D'Amato Totally Uncut - The Erotic Experience (1999)

User Reviews

Disappointing D'amato trash lacks bite.

Black Cobra is directed by filth king Joe D'amato, edited by fellow trashmeister Bruno Mattei, stars gorgeous Asian sexpot Laura Gemser, and even features future Oscar winner Jack Palance in a key role, and yet despite this massive potential (particularly for deviancy), the film blows it by being thoroughly bland for most of its running time. With a story revolving around poisonous snakes, erotic dancing, and revenge, this could and should have been so much more sleazy.

Naturally, the frequent full frontal nudity from Gemser prevented me from switching off in disgust (or rather, lack of disgust), but the soft-core action soon became rather tedious, with Gemser delivering loads of the self gratification and girl on girl action that we can always rely on, but nothing out of the ordinary (I find it hard to believe I'm saying this, but the copious bare flesh actually got boring).

Admittedly, there are a couple of scenes that manage to register slightly on the sleazeometer—a rather amusing strip scene in a lesbian bar that gets the clientele frisky, and a live snake being chopped up and fried for lunch—but most of the action falls way short of what I have come to expect from my Italian trash. The biggest cop-out is the finale—Gemser's revenge on the man who killed her lover—that involves the insertion of a cobra up the jacksy, but which is satisfied to simply suggest the nastiness.

Strangely, the film is also known as Emanuelle Goes Japanese, despite no character of that name going anywhere near Japan (Gemser's character is called Eva and the film is set entirely in Hong Kong).