Emmanuelle 2000: Emmanuelle in Paradise (2001)

Directors Fred Olen Ray and Udo Blass put a twenty-first-century spin on the enormously successful Emmanuelle franchise with the chic and post-modern Emmanuelle 2000: Emmanuelle in Paradise (2001). Made close to thirty years after Sylvia Kristel made ripples as the bored, sexually adventurous wife of a French ambassador, the film finds Holly Sampson inhabiting the role of the scandalous, upper-crust nymphomaniac. In Ray and Blass’s incarnation, a high-tech headband allows its wearer to enter the body and mind of anyone they desire. In a bid to spread her sexual joy, Emmanuelle loans the band to a wheelchair-bound friend (Shauna O’Brien), allowing her to vicariously share in the madam’s randy adventures. Of these there are many––Sampson and co-stars Cheyenne, Allysin Chaynes, Gabriella Hall, Aysia Lee, Darby O’Riley, and Nancy Vaughn indulge in Sapphic, autoerotic, and countless other forms of sexual pleasure seeking.