Emanuelle e gli ultimi cannibali

Plot synopsis:
In a New York City psychiatric ward, photojournalist Emanuelle learns about a girl there who was found in the Amazon rainforest. Emanuelle discovers that she appears to have been raised by the Apiaca, a tribe of cannibals thought to be lost. She contacts Professor Mark Lester, the curator at the National History Museum and persuades him to come with her to the Amazon.
On arriving in the Amazon, they are accompanied by Isabel Wilks, the daughter of the organizer of the expedition, and Sister Angela, who is going upriver to join a mission. Emanuele is attacked by a snake but rescued by hunter Donald Mackenzie. Mackenzie and his wife Maggie as well as their guide Salvadore join the group and inform Sister Angela that her convent has been attacked by what they presume to be cannibals and that no survivors remain.
The group continue into the jungle, and now being watched by unseen spectators. The group find a severed head on stake and Sister Angela disappears to be found impaled the next morning. Meanwhile, The Mackenzie's attempt to leave the group trying to find a crashed plane that contains diamonds. As they stumble upon the plane, they are attacked by a tribe of cannibals with Donald and Maggie being kidnapped. The rest of the group arrive just in time to see this happen, and attempt to find the cannibal village. On arrival, the cannibals kill Salvatore and Isabel is captured. Mark and Emanuelle manage to escape only to watch the Mackenzies brutally murdered. To save Isabel, Emanuelle paints a tribe's markings on her body to convince the natives that she is a goddess and take Isabel away. They manage to escape with Mark who had recovered a speedboat.

Tags: pornographic, violence

Review:
The direction, by high priest of sleaze Joe D'Amato, is adequate, but it's the unrelenting sex and violence that float this flick's boat.A lot of "classic" exploitation is, in fact, incredible boring, slow moving, and beyond inept.
We get nipples cut off and eaten, a vagina cut open and used as a hole to pull innards through, castration, close-to-hardcore sex, stabbings, beheadings and damn attractive women.Laura Gemser is her usual stunning self as Emanuelle and is lovingly scrutinized in a couple of love scenes by D'Amato's leering camera.Some of the photography is surprisingly atmospheric and the score is memorable and moody.The director is often criticized for his output, but I'm happy to congratulate him for a body of work that is, if nothing else, unashamedly extreme and sleazy.
He is best known for his horror and sex films, as well as some of the sickest and most mean spirited images and ideas ever put on silver screen, most notably his Emanuelle in America (1976) that includes plenty of perverse sex, orgies and the repulsive fake "snuff" scenes that look painfully real but are in fact - and fortunately - staged by the Italian effects maestro Giannetto de Rossi.
He made a lot of the Emanuelle cash ins, and Emanuelle e gli ultimi cannibali aka Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977) is among the most noteworthy ones as it combines the elements of the Italian cannibal genre and throws some severe sleaze to the already delicious (as an exploitation fan's point of view) soup, and what's most important, it is not too slow and boring to sit through like some of the horror exploitation films of the seventies.
Laura Gemser, the Indonesian born black beauty and D'Amato regular, plays Emanuelle, a journalist that starts to investigate a strange thing that happens in the city hospital.
The long and steamy sex and masturbation scenes are almost hard core level but still they obviously didn't want to make this so strong as I don't think the veteran Italian horror/exploitation producer Fabrizio de Angelis would have been interested in that kind of stuff as he was the co-producer in this film.
The soundtrack by D'Amato regular (for many of his porn flicks as well as the composer of Mario Girolami's cheesy gore film Zombie Holocaust (1979) ) Nico Fidenco is very interesting especially during the cannibal attacks as it consists of some very low and menacing sounds and "breaths" on the soundtrack.
The plot goes like this: While doing an undercover work in a mental hospital, Emanuelle discovers a girl who seems to have been raised by a cannibal tribe.
But always find the time to have sex no matter what dangers lay ahead.Joe D' Amato and Laura Gemser team up once again for their best 'Black Emanuelle" yet.
EMANUELLE AND THE LAST CANNIBALS is a pretty slow moving and ultimately dull exploitation film from Smut King, Joe D'Amato.
Filled with plenty of tits and ass and a few choice gore scenes, this one still tends to be rather boring and uninspired.The insanely sexy Laura Gemser once again plays a nymphette journalist who's always looking for the latest "scoop".
While doing some undercover work at a mental hospital, our sexy heroine comes across a titty-eating whacko who was brought up by cannibals, which of course starts Emanuelle thinking about her next story.
Things go wrong (as they always do in these jungle films...) and our friends spend the rest of the film's run-time being harassed by the local cannibals.After seeing the Almighty King Of Sleaze Films - EMANUELLE IN America - I was hoping for a lot more from this one.
LAST CANNIBALS didn't deliver near the amount of sleazy filth that America did, and although there were a few decent gore scenes (the female-evisceration-innards-eating was particularly choice...) everything in this film felt sort of half-assed and dull.
"Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals" is a sleazy cannibal exploitation sickie made by Joe D'Amato.It has lovely Laura Gemser plus plenty of soft core sex,some nasty gut munching and gore.The soundtrack by Nico Fidenco is quite effective.Laura Gemser plays a journalist Emanuelle who joins an expedition into the darkest and deepest corners of the Amazon after the patient in the lunatic asylum turns out to be sporting cannibal tattoo.The film is loaded with long scenes of sex and masturbation and there are some pretty sadistic gore scenes added for good measure."Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals" isn't bad by any means,so anyone who likes sleazy Italian exploitation cinema won't be disappointed.Recommended.7 out of 10..
This one lacks the professionalism of Ruggero Deodato's, the style of Umberto Lenzi's, and the austere grandeur and seriousness of Sergio Martino's efforts, but makes up for it with ample sex and lurid cheesiness.Yup, this is the one and only true soft-core porn-themed Italian cannibal movie, complete with plenty of self-pleasury, lesbianry, voyeury, buggery, and plain ol' missionary.
One of those films that makes you feel dirty while watching it or later with the mere memory of having seen it.One of the lower-budgeted efforts ranking down there with ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST, EMANUELLE IN THE LAST CANNIBALS must have been shot mostly just outside Rome.
Donal O'Brien chews scenery wonderfully as a hard-as-nails guide, Gabriele Tinti gives just as earnest a leading man performance as he did in his earlier art-house days, Laura Gemser & Nieves Navarro look pretty and seems comfortable with the rampant nudity.
Pretty good for its day, especially the acting and gore effects, but director Joe D'Amato could have done without all of those cheap excuses to show so much sex.
The story so far: after some mysterious incidents in a madhouse sexy reporter Emanuelle (as gorgeous as ever: Laura Gemser) decides to investigate a story about the last existing cannibal tribes.
She joins an expedition to the delta of Amazonas, what soon becomes the undoing for nearly all members of the group...The first hours of this epic is nothing else but a normal adventure movie, enriched with some typical D´Amato-like soft sex scenes (unfortunately no hardcore shots were used like in "Erotic Nights of the Living Dead"..!).
Joe made 7 (I think) films in the Black Emanuelle-series, all starring the wondrously hot Laura Gemser.
Laura Gemser hams it up big time as our heroine, hardly believable for a second as an 'investigative journalist...' There are a few sex scenes before we even get to the jungle.
"Emanuelle And The Last Cannibals" of 1977 is an extremely sleazy and highly entertaining piece of 70s horror sexploitation, which my fellow exploitation fans will love for its constant extreme sex and gore scenes and, especially, for the stunningly beautiful Exploitation siren Laura Gemser, who once again plays the role of the nymphomaniac journalist (Black) Emanuelle.
Accompanied by some other folks, they enter the jungle near the Amazon, where a supposedly extinct cannibal tribe used to live...The gorgeous Laura Gemser is most famous for playing the lead in the 70s soft-core porn 'Black Emanuelle' series, which tried to tie in with the famous (and at the time scandalous) "Emmanuelle" of 1974, and Joe D'Amato directed a few of those film.
"Emanuelle And The Last Cannibals" is a very exploitative mix of the constant sex orgies of the 'Black Emanuelle' films and the constant gore of the ultra-violent Italian Cannibal flicks.
The supporting cast includes the great Donal O'Brien who enjoys a deserved cult-status among fans of European genre-cinema for starring in various Spaghetti Westerns and Italian Exploitation flicks always plays his roles very good.
The rest of the performances are rather forgettable, but "Emanuelle And The Last Cannibals" is probably not a film one will watch for the good acting anyway.
The acting is mediocre and there is not much of a plot, but the gore effects are quite realistic There is however a lot of pointless nudity and some of the script is quite poor, but if you like trashy exploitation pictures or D'amato's work you should enjoy this..
Laura Gemser reprises her role as the infamous Black Emanuelle and screws a lot of guys and gets naked several times for a good hour or so.
Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals is my second Joe D'Amato film after The Arena, witch was a big disappointment, so my expectations wasn't very high.
She apparently wants to learn about such behavior firsthand and journeys down the Amazon with a research team to find the tribe in question.Laura Gemser plays Emanuelle whit big passion and do a pretty good job.
Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals isn't exactly a comedy either but most people will think of it that way, at least I did and I liked it very much, so much that I'm going to see more from D'Amato and the Black Emanuelle series.
This leads Emanuelle to discover a cannibal cult in the Amazon so she heads down with her lover and various others and before you know it they're lost in the jungle trying not to be eaten.Director Joe D'Amato and star Gemser made a handful of films together including several in the Emanuelle series, which was obviously meant to cash in on a certain series.
The cannibal stuff has some gory violence but it's really not all that special and even worse is that there's no fun adventure with all the jungle stuff.I've seen around one hundred D'Amato films and I admit that I think he was a much better cinematographer than director.
They run into a hunting party in the jungle and the wife (Nieves Navarro) gets it on with the muscular native guide (Percy Hogan) in the bushes, while the husband (Donald O'Brien) spies on them.There is even a little nunspoitation as one of the party, Sister Angela (Annamaria Clementi), is the first one caught by the cannibals and gutted for dinner.Sex takes a backseat for the rest of the movies as the cannibals start gutting victims and having a feast.
I've only watched one of the Italian-made "Black Emanuelle" titles featuring Laura Gemser and two Cannibal films by Ruggero Deodato; I'm not a fan of either subgenre, and this one certainly made no convert out of me!
The plot is clearly an excuse for D'Amato to make a movie with both Emanuelle and cannibals in it, and it follows journalist Emanuelle, who is working undercover in a mental hospital for some reason.
This plot is padded out with all the common sex scenes, and putting this Emanuelle film ahead of the pack are some nasty, cannibal-style, blood and guts!
any hardcore fan of Italian horror has to own this lovely piece of sleaze and gore.joe d'amato should have done a sequel to this because i would've loved to see more cannibal gore adventures with the lovely emanuelle.wow is laura gemser ever sexy.if you can handle sitting through the bad acting and the bad dubbing you will absolutely love this movie.this is Italian sleaze at it's finest.lots of sex and some of the most brutal gore scenes ever filmed.forget cannibal holocaust this is more sick in my opinion.unfortunately the don't make movies like this anymore and they never will.so quit reading this and go buy the DVD right away.
Everything from the camera work, to the acting, writing, FX, and the like are all what is to be expected; not really very good, but fun in their own cheesy way.More competent than the average D'amato flick, function as both an erotic piece and a decent gore-fest.6/10.
(aka: EMANUELLE & THE LAST CANNIBALS)This has a lot more sex in it than any of the cannibal films Lenzi or Deodato has ever done, even though it's all of the soft-core variety.And man, I really like that Nico Fidenco soundtrack with Ulla Linder singing the theme song, "Make Love On Wing" using a disco beat with a wood flute playing in the background.
The standard Joe D'Amato sex stuff, if ya know what I mean.They hook up with a nun and a couple (Donald O'Brien & Nieves Navarro) who are searching for a plane that went down with a package of diamonds, only they don't tell anybody else the expedition about it until it's too late.Gore scenes in the Amazon include:A native lying on the ground with his belly slit open and a snake lying on top of it.
Rating: *** out of **** They really don't make movies like this anymore, and by that I mean we don't see low-budget hybrid adventure/horror flicks with constant gratuitous sex and nudity anymore, making Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals a relic of a time when exploitation cinema was at the height of its popularity.
Almost thirty years later, this particular flick rates among the most entertaining of its genre.The film opens in a mental institute, where undercover report Emanuelle (70s sex icon and all-around hottie Laura Gemser) figures she has a lead for a big story on cannibals when a nurse is bitten by one of the patients.
Her best moments in the flick include a hot sex scene at a pier, in which despite being clothed we still get great looks at her breasts and bush, and the last ten minutes of the movie, where she strips totally nude to fool the the tribe into thinking she's their water goddess.
I was familiar with Joe D'Amato, the famed Italian porno exploitation trash-master who helmed films with names like Porno Holocaust, Erotic Nights of the Living Dead, and Super Hard Love, but, I must admit, I had never seen a single one of his almost 200 films.
It wasn't directed by D'Amato, but rather Bitto Albertini, another Italian exploitation guy, though less prolific or esteemed than our man Joe. I found Black Emanuelle (or Emanuelle in Africa as my VHS is titled) to be fairly standard Sexploitation fare, none of the sex or any of the parts in between were impressive or interesting enough to hold my attention, but when I saw the cannibals on the cover of this film, I had a hope.
It turns out there may still be cannibals in the Amazon and Emanuelle is just the babe for the job.Emanuelle, (Laura Gemser), has a lot of softcore sex in this flick.
After five increasingly batshit Joe D'Amoto vehicles, Gemser teamed with Bruno Mattei for two women in prison movies starring the titular heroine.It's really Emanuelle in America that sets up the craziness of these films, as D'Amoto sets her up as a journalist that goes from learning how the rich and famous have sex to seeking out a snuff film conspiracy to giving up on journalism altogether when her story gets, well, snuffed.Somewhere in between that picture and this one, our heroine has had a change of heart and is back in the yellow journalism game.We start in a New York City mental hospital, where Emanuelle is undercover, looking for a lesbian nurse who is abusing her patients.
Yes. A real, honest to goodness monkey.Look - if there's one thing I've learned from watching cannibal films.
Everyone escapes on a rubber raft and gets over it, surely after plenty more sex.Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals isn't a sexy film.
D'Amato has his eye firmly on the exploitation market – little surprise considering the director spent his later years churning out hardcore pornography – and for the first hour the film stops and starts as it delivers a series of sweaty, poorly-shot sex scenes, complete with the obligatory '70s cheesy music.
It's not that surprising, therefore, to discover that Emanuelle And The Last Cannibals not only delivers the usual smörgåsbord of gory delights typical of the genre, but also offers endless soft-core humping, near the knuckle scenes of female self-gratification, and a smoking chimpanzee.Once again, D'amato's regular leading lady Laura Gemser plays sexually liberated reporter Emanuelle, who always gets her story, whatever the risks.
Sultry bisexual journalist Emanuelle (the ever luscious Laura Gemser) travels with several friends to a dangerous Amazon jungle to track down the last existing cannibal tribe for a scoop.
Emanuelle E Gli Ultimi Cannibali starts in New York where Evening Post newspaper journalist Emanualle (Laura Gemser) is undercover looking for stories, after seeing a nurse have half her breast bitten off by a female patient (Dirce Funari) Emanuelle learns that she was found near the Amazonian jungle & that she bears a tattoo of a long extinct tribe of cannibals.
Curator of the New York Natural History Museum Professor Mark Lester (Gabriele Tinti) agrees to lead the expedition, once there they intend to travel deep into the jungle but soon find themselves under attack from a local tribe of cannibals who are always on the look out for fresh meat...This Italian exploitation mix of boring soft-core sex & lame scenes of cannibalism is widely known to English speaking audiences under the title Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals & was co-written, photographed & directed by Joe D'Amato.
The sex scenes are poor, the actors are not good looking (am I the only one who thinks Laura Gemser is not attractive?), there are some awful continuity errors between night & day (one moment it's pitch black & everyone is sleeping the next it's broad daylight) & not even the cannibal scenes can save this.
The gore effects are cheap even by Italian exploitation standards, there's a sliced off nipple, two scenes featuring women having their stomachs cut open & their guts removed & eaten, a couple of decapitated heads, a couple of dead bodies & someone is sliced in half off screen.Although credited as being shot on location in the Amazon it wasn't, the dull looking jungle scenes were shot in Italy & it shows although there is some nice late 70's location footage of New York at the start.
The undisputed King of Sleaze, Joe D'amato teams up yet again with Laura Gemser for another entry in the Emanuelle series, this time journalist Emanuelle is in the Amazon researching a story on cannibals.While doing some undercover work in a mental hospital, Emanuelle witnesses a female patient cannibalize a nurse's breast.
Plus of course being an Emanuelle / D'amato film, there's a lotta sex.
Here we are we got very well made exploitation film that is excellent mixture of gore, sex, and nudity.