Interesteg What makes it different from others?

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Sam Panico Legend has it that David Cronenberg for the idea for the torture TV channel that lends its name to his opus Videodrome from this Joe D'Amoto film, which is also known as Trap Them and Kill Them. Think of this - a film that upset Cronenberg for its mash-up of snuff, cannibalism and sex. Take it from me. This one totally lives up to its promise. Or lives down. You almost have to appreciate it for how lurid it is, as if it just screams at you, "I am the kind of movie you should feel ashamed for watching."First, a history lesson. This film isn't about the French film Emmanuelle, which starred Sylvia Kristel and had an extra "m" in the title. Nope, that series was made to cash in on the trend and features Laura Gemser, an Indonesian-Dutch actress who is more dark brown than black. But why quibble? This is exploitation filmmaking, after all. The Black Emanuelle films follow the formula of the original, all about a young woman discovering her sexual identity. But I have no idea how they morphed into a series where she becomes an investigative journalist who increasingly discovers more and more depraved behavior. Is there a thin line between swingers clubs and cannibals in the jungle? I would hope that there is. 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. Her idea of undercover is wearing lots of makeup and carrying around a stuffed animal. And how does she get her info? Well, once she learns about a girl who was raised by the Apiaca, a tribe of cannibals thought to be lost, she meets the girl and has sex with her. We realize this girl is a cannibal where she bites a girl's nipples off within the first minute of screen time. Yes, she makes out with a girl who just ate someone.Again - I'm warning you. You're in for some real scum here.She contacts Professor Mark Lester (Gabriele Tinti, husband of Gemser who also appeared in Enter the Devil and Lisa and the Devil), a curator at the National History Museum, and gets him to join her on a visit to the Amazon. How does she convince him? Well, she has sex with him. Come on. Get with the program.They're also joined by several others, including Isabel, MacKenzie (Donald O'Brien, Dr. Butcher, M.D.), Sister Angela and Maggie (Nieves Navarro, All the Colors of the Dark).The film alternates between Emanuelle in danger and Emanuelle having sex. There's a scene that defies logic with Emanuelle and Isabel making out while a monkey steals their cigarettes, lights one up and watches. Yes. A real, honest to goodness monkey.Look - if there's one thing I've learned from watching cannibal films. most of the white folks aren't on the straight and narrow. MacKenzie is really after some diamonds and his wife, Maggie, is just here to sleep with the natives.Soon, much like Shakespeare - if the bard had dared to make a film that combines a Cinemax After Dark film and an Italian gutmuncher - everyone dies except Isobel, Lester and our girl. She covers her body with tattoos - pay attention, Dr. Butcher, M.D. - and convinces the natives that she is a goddess. 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. Nor is it a particularly good cannibal film. It's merely interesting by the fact that a movie this strange exists.

Bezenby Famously made during the great underwear shortage of 1977, Emmanuelle and the Last Cannibals demonstrates all the concrete rules of softcore films. 1) No two women can be left alone for more than three seconds without touching each other and 2) No woman can be left alone for more than three seconds without indulging in a bit of invisible banjo playing, if you know what I'm saying.Laura Gesmer is Emmanuelle, and we first see her in New York (of course), pretending to be crazy in order to get the scoop on some kinds of going on in a loony bin. After a nurse gets bitten by a patient found in the jungle (or something), Emmanuelle endears herself to the audience by molesting the patient while she's tied to a bed. Works for all journalists! Just ask Alan Wicker! So, barely adequate reason for going to the jungle established, Emmanuelle get her crew together, including a hunky professor (love interest), a young jungle expert (love interest), and a nun. Along the way they hook up with Donald Obrien (vouyer), his wife and a hunky African man. Various couplings, gusset typings, and chugging-in-the-bushes ensues. For the entire first hour.There's cannibals in the title, but where's the cannibals? Well, thankfully, they manage to put in an appearance that saves the film. They waste most of the cast in various ways, sedate one of the girls, and lead us to what is a great exploitation scene, the likes of which Tarantino could never dream of: A naked laura gesmer, firing a pump action shotgun from the back of a speedboat while being pursued by cannibals.I could have done with more action and less scenes of Donald O'Brien grinning while trying to molest people, to be honest, but as cannibal films go, it's not too bad. At least D'Amato doesn't resort to killing animals to pad out his film. Good soundtrack too.

Paul Andrews 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. Intrigued by this woman's story Emanuelle convinces her editor Rod to organise & pay for an expedition to the Amozonian jungle for reasons I can't quite understand. 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. Taking the old adage that sex & violence sells D'Amato takes it to heart & turns in this crappy little mix of soft-core sex & cheap gore effects, without wishing to state the obvious Emanuelle E Gli Ultimi Cannibali is a straight cross between a cheap porno & an Italian cannibal flick. Neither aspect really satisfied me & I must admit I really don't find much to enjoy in your average porno, I am one of those people who simply doesn't get anything out of watching two people having sex on screen especially when it's as tame as this. Emanuelle E Gli Ultimi Cannibali is strictly soft-core all the way, there are no male genitalia on show although there are plenty of dull as dishwater shots of people people groping each other on beds. The cannibal side of things aren't much better, it takes almost an entire hour for the first cannibals to show up & considering the film lasts less than ninety minutes that's just far too long. The story sucks as well, it's like the most basic story of a group of people going into the Amazonian jungle for extremely tenuous reasons & eventually running into cannibals who kill some of them, the end. The soft-core sex seems to be there to pad the paper thin plot out while the horror element is pretty much amounts to some cheap rubber gore effects.I must admit there is one scene in Emanuelle E Gli Ultimi Cannibali which is mildly interesting & that's when Emanuelle & her 'friend' Isabelle go swimming naked together leaving their things on the bank & a chimpanzee comes along, finds a packet of cigarettes, takes one out, puts it in his mouth & then lights up with a lighter & begins to smoke! I seriously doubt that was in the original script & was probably put in here as an odd bit of comedy relief when the makers discovered a chimpanzee who could smoke! Thinking about the scene now it's very un-PC as smoking is now frowned upon & of course animal rights is also a big issue these days so quite what animal lovers think of chimpanzee's being made to light up & smoke I'll never know! 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. Originally shot in Italian & terribly dubbed into English the acting probably sucked.Emanuelle E Gli Ultimi Cannibali is a film that I don't like & don't really have any time for, you would have thought a heady mix of sex & gore would make for a decent film but Emanuelle E Gli Ultimi Cannibali proves anyone can make a mess of even the simplest concepts. Nowhere near as good as the likes of Last Cannibal World (1977), Cannibal Holocaust (1980) or Cannibal Ferox (1981).

Carlos_Lohan The fifth part of the Black Emanuelle series starring Laura Gemser is, along with Emanuelle in America, the most of famous of them all. And with a good reason: The movie is a entertainment mix of softcore sex, "extreme" gore and adventure epic! 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. She decides to go to the Amazonian jungle and there she finds that the supposedly extinct tribe is very much alive and the massacre starts! Even if the movie has a typical "cannibal flick" plot, and the gore is a bit restrained (but amusing to watch), the purpose of the movie is to show as much nudity as you can in a 90 minutes movie. And in that, the movie doesn't disappoint a bit. The main actresses are all very attractive, especially Laura Gemser and Euro horror regular Susan Scott (Death Walks at Midnight). On a side note, the soundtrack of this one is pure gold! Written by Nico Fidenco, the catchy main tune is very effective. It's not as good as Emanuelle in America, but I still recommend this to anyone who likes 70s exploitation cinema! 7/10