The infamous snuff footage in this film inspired David Cronenberg to write "Videodrome"(1983).
Laura Gemser said later that the Emanuelle films were all the same, adding "It seemed like one long, long movie that didn't end. You know, it was always the same story, the same things happens." In every film, she played a journalist or a photographer sent out to find some criminals, and she always had to strip naked or have sex to get what she needed. She admitted she continued to do them because they paid well and she got to travel to exotic locations, which she loved. That made continuously taking her clothes off and kissing and rubbing against other people tolerable.
The film was seized by an Italian court because they thought the disturbing snuff film footage was real, and one of the traumatized actresses in those scenes sued producers but lost the case.
Laura Gemser said that in every film she made with director Joe D'Amato, he tried many times to make her film hardcore porn scenes, but she always gave him a resounding "No!."
First hardcore role (uncredited) for Italian pornstar Marina Hedman, who performs explicit oral sex on a man.