Verdict
Summary
From director Joe D’Amato and screenwriter Rossella Drudi, who wrote some of the worst Italian schlock films of the ’80s and ’90s with credits such as Rats: Night of Terror, Robowar, Strike Commando, and Hell of the Living Dead to their name, Eleven Days Eleven Nights is gobsmackingly awful as a feature film and resembles (at least on the surface) a janky porno with just plain awful scripting, acting (many of the actors only appeared in this single movie and nothing else), and a central performance by bimbo, silicone-breasted Rose who can’t carry a film on her lithe, clueless shoulders.
Plot:
An executor of a will worth hundreds of millions must decide who the fortune goes to.
Review:
A blonde bimbo named Sarah (Kristine Rose) is called out of the blue to a legal meeting in New Orleans where a massive fortune must be granted to a deceased multi-millionaire’s relative, and Sarah finds that she has been declared the executor of the man’s fortune. Why? Years ago, she was the man’s lover, and in his infinite wisdom, he thought she would make the perfect executor, despite the fact that she has never been in a position of power before. The man’s entire family shows up to the reading of the will, and when they all realize that they’re not going to inherit a single dime unless Sarah says so, they each cozy up to her in their own way. She has eleven days and eleven nights to make up her mind, and her way of making a decision is to get to know each and every one of the greedy hopefulls. Male, female, young and old, the dead man’s relatives are all a bunch of cretins, but that doesn’t stop Sarah from spending a day or so with each one, listening to their sob stories of being destitute or needing the money desperately. She learns that one of the men is a total creep with a history of sexual assaults, and one of the younger men is an impotent sad sack whom she is very curious about to see if he has any real interest in inheriting the money. She takes him out for a day on the town, and when they go to a strip club, she observes that he seems uncomfortable, and when she shocks him by jumping on stage to tease him with a strip act, she’s bummed when he doesn’t react with lust, but rather embarrassment. Sarah’s entire plan is to test each of her subjects one way or another, but ultimately the entire endeavor is a ruse by the supposedly deceased man because he’s actually alive and observing from the sidelines … as a joke! Sarah has done all the hard work by weeding out his greedy family members and ultimately finding the one true person worthy of his fortune: Her!
From director Joe D’Amato and screenwriter Rossella Drudi, who wrote some of the worst Italian schlock films of the ’80s and ’90s with credits such as Rats: Night of Terror, Robowar, Strike Commando, and Hell of the Living Dead to their name, Eleven Days Eleven Nights is gobsmackingly awful as a feature film and resembles (at least on the surface) a janky porno with just plain awful scripting, acting (many of the actors only appeared in this single movie and nothing else), and a central performance by bimbo, silicone-breasted Rose who can’t carry a film on her lithe, clueless shoulders. I watched the first Eleven Days Eleven Nights movie to “prepare” for this review, and while that’s certainly no classic by any standard, it’s leagues sexier and more interesting (and way more erotic too) than this belated sequel, which is technically not the second film in the franchise, which had multiple entries and spinoffs. The second film in the series is called Top Model (which I haven’t seen), and followed the same characters as the first film, and so this movie is an in-name only cash-in with an entirely new set of characters and a new plot, although it does share one character from the earlier movies played by Laura Gemser as an editor of a publishing house. Clunky from the get-go and almost pointlessly plotted, this one is strictly for fans of softcore films from the era (which, admittedly, I am to some degree), but wow: This one is just terrible.
88 Films really went the distance with their release of Eleven Days Eleven Nights 2 with a 4K Ultra HD disc and a Blu-ray combo, presenting the film in a new 4K remaster, so the film looks and sound great, adding a ton of bonus features, including a commentary, interviews, a booklet, and lots of stuff to check out if the film needs further perusal.
Bonus Materials
- INCLUDES SLIPCASE WITH ART BY SEAN LONGMORE
- BOOKLET WITH NOTES FROM CALUM WADDELL AND RACHAEL NISBET
- Brand New 4K remaster from the Original Negatives presented in Ultra High Definition (2160p) in 1.66:1 Aspect Ratio
- Presented in Dolby Vision High Dynamic Range (HDR10 Compatible)
- High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray in 1.66:1 Aspect Ratio also included
- English 2.0 LPCM Stereo
- Italian 2.0 LPCM Mono with newly translated English subtitles
- Audio Commentary by Italian Cinema Experts Eugenio Ercolani and Nanni Cobretti
- Filmirage: From Dawn Till Dusk – An Interview with Dubbing Director Mark Thompson Ashworth
- Seven Notes, Eleven Nights – An Interview with Composer Piero Montanari
- Eros in the Plastic Age – An Interview with Music Historian Pierpaolo De Sanctis
- Italian Opening and Closing titles
