EXOTIC MALICE is another film made by Italian exploitation director Joe D'Amato during his brief stay in the Caribbean. Once again the Dominican Republic locations are one of the most interesting things about it, bringing a touch of natural exoticism that the narrative itself can't hope to achieve. Unfortunately unlike other films D'Amato made during this era, EXOTIC MALICE is basically a piece of pornography with little else to distinguish it.
The hard-faced Mark Shannon plays an ailing guy who discovers that due to a rare disease he'll have to have his genitals removed in two weeks' time. To that end he visits a tropical island to have some fun with the ladies, in long and padded-out sex scenes that supply the demand for pornography but do nothing else to further the narrative. Said sex usually involves the stiff (in more than one sense of the word) Shannon although another guy shows up later on and in one instance a white woman encounters a couple of black guys.
It's all very sleazy and largely uninteresting. The best thing about the film is the sole piece of characterisation in the sub-plot involving Shannon being haunted by the ghost of his dead wife. This leads to a shocking climax which is inevitably the best part of the film and the only bit you'll remember. The script was written by George Eastman who has a cameo. D'Amato's camera-work remains inventive but even this quality can't hide the fact that this piece of exploitation was shot on the cheap on a very low budget.
The hard-faced Mark Shannon plays an ailing guy who discovers that due to a rare disease he'll have to have his genitals removed in two weeks' time. To that end he visits a tropical island to have some fun with the ladies, in long and padded-out sex scenes that supply the demand for pornography but do nothing else to further the narrative. Said sex usually involves the stiff (in more than one sense of the word) Shannon although another guy shows up later on and in one instance a white woman encounters a couple of black guys.
It's all very sleazy and largely uninteresting. The best thing about the film is the sole piece of characterisation in the sub-plot involving Shannon being haunted by the ghost of his dead wife. This leads to a shocking climax which is inevitably the best part of the film and the only bit you'll remember. The script was written by George Eastman who has a cameo. D'Amato's camera-work remains inventive but even this quality can't hide the fact that this piece of exploitation was shot on the cheap on a very low budget.