Selen: The Girl from Treasure Island (1998)
* (out of 4)
Yet another Joe D'Amato "adult" film, this time with a sexy blonde trying to sleep her way to a treasure. Selen ended up appearing in a couple of the director's better known films and it's easy to see why people would be attracted to these over many others out there. Selen is certainly easy on the eyes and D'Amato's camera-work never goes away from her. The rest is pretty blah.
Director Joe D'Amato will always be remembered for his horror films like BEYOND THE DARKNESS and ANTROPOPHAGUS as well as his long running Emanuelle series with Laura Gamser. After the Italian horror market dried up, D'Amato had a comeback with the softcore ELEVEN DAYS ELEVEN NIGHTS, which eventually led to the director doing porn titles. The director had previously mixed sex and horror in such titles as PORNO HOLOCAUST and EROTIC NIGHS OF THE LIVING DEAD but those films were a long way off from his later day porn.
