Perhaps inevitable from the makers of the De Sade film (starring porn superstar Rocco Siffredi), this "Barone von Masoch" feature is unfortunately in the modern all-sex format, with no story at all and minimal dialog. That saves money on dubbing, subtitling and other post-production niceties.
Basically Roberto Malone, the older character "actor" who appears in so many Joe D'Amato films, in the title role leads a group of underlings in standard sex scenes with not-very-pretty girls, with bondage and whipping thrown in. The more interesting material from the baron's oft-filmed novel VENUS IN FURS is not tapped. The benefits of masochism are not explored; rather the viewer (myself included obviously) is the masochist for subjecting himself to this junk. Shooting location looks like that used for the producer Luca Damiano's X HAMLET, an evocative castle, but auteur Joe is disinterested in anything but grinding out no-frills, XXX porn this time around.
The U.S. DVD release is short on running time, and rather than censored was probably just slapped together from the Italian original carelessly.
Basically Roberto Malone, the older character "actor" who appears in so many Joe D'Amato films, in the title role leads a group of underlings in standard sex scenes with not-very-pretty girls, with bondage and whipping thrown in. The more interesting material from the baron's oft-filmed novel VENUS IN FURS is not tapped. The benefits of masochism are not explored; rather the viewer (myself included obviously) is the masochist for subjecting himself to this junk. Shooting location looks like that used for the producer Luca Damiano's X HAMLET, an evocative castle, but auteur Joe is disinterested in anything but grinding out no-frills, XXX porn this time around.
The U.S. DVD release is short on running time, and rather than censored was probably just slapped together from the Italian original carelessly.