... aka: Pavo real negro
... aka: Voodoo Sexy
Directed by:
Osvaldo Civirani
Kluger (Franco Ressel), an
engineer, has disappeared in Haiti while scouting areas to build
a resort. Marco (Chris Avram) flies in to take his place. When he
arrives, his wife Laura (Karin Schubert) is there waiting on him
and the two - along with their guide Romero (Luigi Angelillo) - go
to the small, isolated jungle shack where Kluger was staying before he
vanished. Seeing how the tiny house has some primitive charm to it and
it's closer to where Marco will be working, Laura insists they stay there
instead of at the hotel back in the city. He reluctantly agrees,
especially considering the rumors that there are practitioners of black
magic living nearby and voodoo dolls are found in the house. The couple go
to the beach so Laura can sunbathe topless and take photos and Marco can
break in his spear gun. While snorkeling, she finds another voodoo doll
underwater in a cloud of blood. Her flipper gets caught in some coral, but
she's miraculously saved when a native man rescues her, pulls her ashore
and then administers mouth to mouth. By the time her husband gets to her,
the mysterious native has disappeared.
The rumors of voodoo turn out be accurate and the local sect don't want
Marco nosing around and threatening their land. While out snapping photos,
the cult's powerful high priest - Balaga (Don Powell) - makes his
presence known by starting a fire. He's also able to superimpose his image
in every photo Marco attempts to take to render them useless. Since Marco
refuses to head back to Italy, Balaga then decides to hit him where it
really hurts: by targeting his wife. Using voodoo dolls, he lures Laura
into the jungle to one of their voodoo ceremonies where she watches from
behind a tree as people have sex, a chicken's head gets cut off and
everybody drinks its blood. One of the native girls gets her black flesh
ripped off to reveal white Laura underneath and then Balaga has sex with
her. Now under his spell, she has frequent dreams - either sexual in
nature or ones of her running through the jungles tinted green, blue or
with some swirl effect - and seems to be turning into a nymphomaniac.
After she unsuccessfully tries to seduce their guide, Marco decides to try
to break the curse. Well, after having sex with their voluptuous native
maid Youma (Samantha Star) on the kitchen table first. Laura also
gets a go at Youma herself to fill the obligatory lesbian scene.
Voodoo Sexy (filmed as Il pavone nero or "The Black
Peacock") predates a handful of better-known but very similar titles made by Joe D'Amato by a number of years. That cycle included Erotic
Night of the Living Dead, Orgasmo nero (aka Sex and Black Magic),
Porno Holocaust, Voodoo Baby (all from 1980) and several others.
These films weren't so much about their horror plots and utilizing their
exotic filming locations so much as they were about insuring there'd be
lots of interracial sex scenes. Many of them had slight voodoo themes
simply because they probably didn't know what else to do, and that seems
to be the case here. The plot is minimal and the voodoo cult pretty much
just gyrate around and have sex a lot. Just like D'Amato's efforts this
was also filmed in the Dominican Republic (though set in Haiti the "Dominicana"
airplane is a dead giveaway) and the bulk of the time is set aside for various sex scenes.
While it
appears to have been shot as a soft-core, the version I watched had
numerous hardcore inserts spliced in using obvious doubles. Schubert herself has a double for the more
explicit stuff though she'd make the plunge into hardcore herself a decade
later when she was well into her 40s.
I don't think this was ever released here in America and it's really
all just dull. The full run-time of the version I watched was 87 minutes (though IMDb says 90).
★1/2
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