In July of 1979, Italian director, Antonello Giallo, completed work on his
debut feature. Shortly after the film's premiere, he was brought up by the
Italian government on 17 charges of indecency, and all copies of the film were
presumed destroyed...
...until now!
The film was entitled Pleasures of the Damned. Dire Wit
Films is proud to present Antonello Giallo's vision, digitally remastered and
uncut.
Press
Critical-Film Review By Jason Pitt
"Can You Handle Pleasures of the Damned?" - Greg Goodsell - Screem Magazine #12 (June 2006) - Buy Screem Online Here!
Indie-Watch Review - Jason Herr (April 19, 2006) (MySpace Members)
Baltimore City Paper Review - Joe Macleod (March 22, 2006)
"That's Not Italian!" - Chris Skokna - Baltimore City Paper (June 11, 2005)
"Critic's Choice - Backseat Film Festival" - Chris Skokna - Baltimore City Paper (June 4, 2005)
Stills
"We decided to take it upon ourselves to restore Pleasures of the Damned because
Antonello Giallo makes Ed Wood Jr. look like Orson Welles. He deserves to be a household
name"
- Mark Colegrove, Dire Wit Films
"One-hundred-and-twenty-three minutes of perfunctory illegal drug use, rape,
torture, cannibalism, gore, incest, genital mutilation, violence, masturbation,
devil-worship, ironically executed false mustaches, fat guys, bad bad-sound
recording, and actors who are either poorly directed or maybe simply were hoping
you would see them smirking so you don’t think they took any of this shit
seriously..."
- Joe Macleod, Baltimore City Paper
"There isn't enough water in my shower to wash the filth from my soul."
- Carl Cephas, Washington Psychotronic Film Society
"Pleasures of the Damned is a gloriously excessive homage that is well worthy of being
included alongside the ancestors that inspired it. Simply put, I enjoyed the hell out of this movie."
- Jason Pitt, Critical-Film.com
"I really don't think that this is meant to be a serious movie."
- Danny W., Horror-Fanatics.com
Synopsis: When a group of Satan worshiping bikers seek out a
book holding the secrets of eternal life, they accidentally resurrect an
ancient evil in the woods, that manifests itself in the zombified forms of
cult members that killed themselves in the same woods some 200 years ago.
Private Investigator, Jack Steele, while on a mission to help rescue Evelyn
Crane's brother Tommy from the hands of the bikers, gets entangled in the
situation, and may be the only one that can lay the curse to rest for good.
