Emily Haack
Nude

Low-budget, high-ambition horror pics provide one of the most reliable alternatives to standard big-studio fare, and Emily Haack, the scream queen of the straight-to-video era of terror skinema, is an earthy, fleshy, fierce, and feisty alternative to sugar-coated confections from the La La Land dream factories. There is nothing manufactured about Emily’s swaying big-girl chest bombs, nor about her gut-quaking reactions to the twisting plot torments in such razor-edged shock triumphs as Scrapbook (2000) and I Spit on Your Corpse, I Piss on Your Grave (AKA The Captives) (2001). In the former, she engages in many different sex acts (against her character’s will), including non-simulated ones (hopefully not against Emily’s will). In the latter, the sex acts are even more explicit, as one scene has Emily penetrating herself with a broom handle. The primary special effect seems to be to take Emily’s clothes away, strip off her makeup, update the pleasures of Marquis de Sade, and keep the cameras rolling. Obviously, these masterpieces of muff and mayhem should be viewed in their unrated versions whenever possible. The same goes for her later nude roles in the films Bizarre Lust of a Sexual Deviant (2001), Satan’s Cannibal Holocaust (2007), Ratline (2011), and In Memory of (2018). We hope that we won’t have to be in memory of Emily’s skinema career, as we haven’t seen her flesh in a few years. If she has retired, at least we’ll always be able to dive into her archives and have a whack to Ms. Haack.