Sunday 17 July 2016

Ruptured Guest Review: Top Sensation

Country of origin- Italy  
Year of release- 1969  
Director- Ottavio Alessi   
Stars- Rosalba Neri, Edwige Fenech, Eva Thulin



Top Sensation/The seducers is the definition of exploitation, hot females, murder, hot females, outrageous plots oh and some hot females. The film centres around a group on a small cruise, sounds like a rather average set up. Wrong. The cruise is centred around the plot of mother attempting to cure her son’s (Tony) mental illness by surrounding him with prostitutes, as what better solution to a mental illness than a good old cherry popping? Am I right? Surprisingly he hates his mother… strange, because I think she is doing a swell job. Now I can hear all you pre-pubescent boys praying for your mum to take a leaf out of that character’s book.
Anyway I digress, so this voyage of taking advantage of the handicapped, stumbles across a strange deserted island, except it’s not actually deserted, it’s inhibited by a man and wife (Beba). A wife which is way out of his league, but hey choices are limited when you’re the only two fucking people.  So Tony randomly escapes to the island, and manages to bump into Beba, and well the two kind of hit it off. So the crew of the ship see her as a way to cure Tony, because you know as I said before what’s better medicine than sex. So the crew take Beba on board and treat her like the guest of honour, and have an overall swell time. Oh, and a casual lesbian threesome? Did I forget that minor detail? What unfolds after this a situational plot device of them attempting to get Beba alone with Tony, while distracting the now present husband. But while everyone is distracted with this lumbering fool of a husband they forget to notice that Tony has killed his new love interest. I hate when I by accidentally kill my crush. This is the catalyst to spin the film into a dark spiral of murder.
Overall the film is average, its plot is ludacris at the start and makes little sense. But the last act of the film (when the murder kicks in) is actually rather dark and interesting, and the last shot is damn creepy. This is the perfect film to watch with a friend and have a good laugh, but it is not by any mean a masterpiece to sit and have an intellectual discussion on the plausible use of sex as a mental illness cure. Overall I give this film a score of 4/10.  I do have to give props to Shameless Cinema though, for releasing this film especially with the amount of scenes they have restored, and recommend this edition over any other way of watching it. 
This review was kindly contributed by my good friend Robert James, to see more of Robert's work see his YouTube Channel     
 

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