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Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals

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"Trap Them and Kill Them" aka Emmanuelle and the Last Cannibals is simply put the best of the cannibal exploitation genre and for a good reason. The plot is very simple, starts in New York, and ends up in the cannibal infested tropics, on a forbidden island. Sexy Laura Gemser is the investigative reporter who must find out what is going on with the strange symbol found on the victim in NYC. The jungle adventures are absolutley erotic, as everyone is constantly jumping each others bones. Including Gemser, and the sexy young blonde. That is until they run smack into the cannibals, and are inevitably captured, tortured, and eaten. Well, except for the sexy little blonde, who is stripped naked, and, well um, lets just say the cannibals had "other" ideas for her. Emmanuelle, however, is on the way, and to the rescue! Laura Gemser is without a doubt, one of the sexiest women in the world, of all time. She has an exotic look to her that is an incredible mixture of Native American, Polynesian, and Asian. She had long legs that stretched to eternity long before Stacy Keibler hit the WWE. And a belly you could bounce a quarter off of. She simply, WAS sex. Sensual, exotic, and every inch a woman. This film was LONG overdue on DVD, except that I am still having trouble tracking down a copy, but I'll get one if it's the last thing I do. Me me Lai of "Jungle Holocaust" fame is a razor close second, but Gemser wins in the end. Lets say it here, the absolute queen of 70's exploitation. All Hail Gemser!

That pesky minx, Emanuelle, has met her match this time! Now she's dealing with a vicious(what other kind?) tribe of cannibals, along with some other unfortunate souls. Joe D'Amato tries to weasel in on Lenzi/Deodato's territory, but adding his own personal touch. In this case, he tries a marriage of gory Italian style cannibal flick and softcore porno. Emanuelle manages to hit on, and/or sleep with just about every man and woman in this film-A Real Party Chick! What else could you ask for when you're on a perilous trek through cannibal territory? Laura Gemser is extraordinarily sexy, if you didn't already know. Basically, the first hour of the film is dedicated to all the characters exploring each other rather than the Amazon. There are four female characters and 3 of them(one is a nun, but even she's not safe from a nude scene) seem to have the hormones of a 17 year old guy. After this rather unexciting hour the cannibals decide to crash the party. There's alot of nipple eating in this film. I'm not sure why this is the cannibals' first choice before they dig into the rest. I guess they see them as hors d'oeuvres or something. I'm not quite sure if I like the mixing of genres all that much-I guess I's prefer strictly one or the other. It's not bad though; It still makes for goodtime, sleazy midnight viewing, which is all you can expect from Italian horror cinema. One bizarre scene is worth the price of admission alone: Emanuelle and some other lady are bathing naked in a river while a chimpanzee sits onshore watching them, clapping and smoking a cigarette. Funny.

I first saw "Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals" ("Emanuelle e gli ultimi cannibali") in Paris along the Champs-Élysée, where it was playing under the title "Viol dans les Tropiques," in the early 1980s. It was the first time that I had ever heard of the film's star, Laura Gemser, whose cinnamon-skinned, statuesque beauty leaves me at a loss for superlatives.

As delivery systems for Gemser's eye-popping pulchritude, her films are worth parades, confetti, and a twenty-one-gun salute. But aesthetically speaking, the films themselves are poorly made. Joe D'Amato, maker of "Cannibals" and the director with whom Gemser is most closely associated, is more notable for his sensationalistic subject matter than his handling of a movie camera (the same cannot be said of Russ Meyer).

But trying to warn audiences away from Laura Gemser films because they're poorly made is about as useful as warning people away from Häagen-Dazs because its fattening. Most viewers don't go to a Gemser movie to see a well-made film; they go to see a rapturously beautiful woman get herself into one sexual situation after another. On this level, "Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals" probably won't disappoint its core audience. However, the film is notable for its use of nudity in one scene.

In this otherwise schlocky and cheesy exploitation movie, when the youngest member of an Amazon safari is kidnapped by South American cannibals, Laura/Emanuelle strips out of her clothes, pretends to be the cannibals' fertility goddess, and spirits the young kidnap victim away from her captors.

What I liked about the scene (when I could ignore the condescending portrayal of the "cannibals") was that Emanuelle's nudity became an agent of her personal power. The cannibals were so in awe of her naked body, and the confidence with which she wielded it, that they surrendered their prisoner to her. In one of those rare moments in the movies, a woman's nakedness was not a mark of vulnerability or victimization -- but of strength. And the natives yielded to the erotic aura and power of her unadorned female form. In fact, the cannibals' awe of Laura Gemser's naked body mirrored my own.

Also, immersing myself into the story, I got an electric charge out of the idea that a beautiful woman would deliberately drop trou and knowingly walk into such a dangerous situation. (The film's German title is "Nackt unter Kannibalen" -- literally "Naked Among the Cannibals.") And I got another charge out of the idea that she was able to escape that situation precisely because she was nude to begin with. Never underestimate the power of the naked female body.

Gemser fans may laugh at comparing "Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals" to the films of Miklós Jancsó, the Hungarian art-film director ("Red Psalm," "Allegro Barbaro") who also frequently uses nudity as an element of power and resistance. But nakedness is so rarely portrayed as a symbol of strength in story-telling audiovisual media (no doubt because of nudity's taboo status in society) that thinking of similar scenes from films leaves the brain racked.

This one scene from "Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals," the single moment of mesmerism in an otherwise tawdry movie, stands as a tribute to Laura Gemser and her bountiful beauty. Jancsó aside, I wish there were more scenes like this in non-sexploitation cinema.

They really don't make movies like this anymore, and by that I mean we don't see low-budget gore/horror flicks with constant gratuitous sex, nudity and over-excessive gore 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. This sick and brilliant Italian cannibal flick goes beyond bad taste and Joe D'Amato is very well known for these type of films making him the king of exploitation and sleaze. Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals is D'Amato's trip into the cannibal genre, and if it's an exploitation film which features a lot of heavy soft-core sex and extreme graphic violence you're looking for, then your going to love this. Supposedly based on a true story by Jennifer Sullivan (Yeah right!), Emanuelle (Laura Gemser, who by the way is really hot!) begins in a psychiatric hospital where one of the unfortunate nurses has one of her breasts chewed off by a patient with a tattoo above her pubic region. Luckily, Emanuelle is a journalist working at the hospital (with a secret camera in her teddy bear of course), and decides to get to the bottom of the story by convincing her editor to prepare an expedition to the Amazon. Lots of sex later and Emanuelle and her entourage finally arrive in cannibal country, they end up meeting a hunter and his nymphomaniac wife who are in the jungle searching for lost diamonds and it's then just a matter of sitting back to see who survives and who gets killed in the most horrible way, Oh yeah and Emanuelle has a naked lesbian wash with some other chick in a river while a monkey smokes and starts clapping, yes very nice!. As you can see the plot was laughably bad but that doesn't really matter since all Italian cannibal flicks were like this except for Cannibal Holocaust of course. I wouldn't say that this film was as great as Cannibal Holocaust but it was a very fine and enjoyable gore flick. This being a D'Amato film, the direction is surprisingly good although acting and dubbing are their usual low standard. The music and especially sound effects are effective enough and the end raid to rescue the kidnapped Maggie is really enjoyable. But it's the gore that's the star of the show here, with plenty of nipple slicing, genitalia mutilation (both male and female) and a laughable slicing in half (which was apparently achieved by hanging a photo of the actor between two trees). Yes it's all in bad taste and extremely sleazy, but this is certainly the most enjoyable of the all cannibal films out there. I highly recommend this crazy cannibal flick to hardcore horror fans but only for those who have a strong stomach.

This film is a great Cannibal film, very good story great effects and plenty to entertain. Get this now.

This is really one of the best Joe D'Amato Black Emanuelle classics there is. The best is Emanuelle in America, but I saw this one first, and it was superb. Really a great classic. The first 15 minutes is a sort of intro to the story of the film, then the next 45 minutes are full of good soft-core sex scenes, were Joe really proves himself. And the last 30 minutes are full of Horror and good cannibalistic scenes. Joe D' Amato is to me the genius of Italian Porn, Erotic and horror films. He's a real genius. I've got a lot of his movies: Emanuelle In America, Emanuelle and the last Cannibals , Porno Holocaust , Erotic Nights of the Living Dead , Caligula; the untold story , Beyond the Darkness , Death Smiled At Murder and Anthropophagus (The Grim Reaper). But buy this movie, it's all good. Joe I Love You!

A [...] being eaten, a [...], and two soft-core scenes in the first twenty minutes, and it continues like this for the rest of the film! Gotta love it! The people in this movie can't go ten minutes without getting laid, and almost becomes laughable(in a good way). There's some great gore and a smoking chimp, need I say more?

P.S. Sorry about all the [...], but Amazon censored all the [...].

This film was excellent. Me and my fiance bought it along with a bunch of other slasher films and found it to not only contain gore but also the interspersed softcore porn was a bonus!!

Not only that but it also had a smoking monkey in it as well - awesome.

A female journalist named Emmanuelle is sent to South American to investigate the last existing cannibal tribe ever known to man. She brings a crew of misfits with her on her dangerous journey even if she has to do it with the male crew members and will the cannibals eat them all especially Emmanuelle?

One of the most gruesomest and sleaziest films in the cannibal genre from Italy but very enjoyable. Yes the acting sucks but there is some gruesome scenes of cannibalism and gore such as nipple eating, castration, genital stabbing, torso ripping etc. and what's refreshing for some viewers is that it tones down on the usual use of actual animals getting killed on film with the exception of a live Python getting shot in the head. Though not nearly as hard to watch as "Cannibal Holocaust" but almost near the status of that flick, it's close but no cigar when it comes near "Cannibal Holocaust".

The DVD has decent picture in widescreen format with a few extras like trailer with other Shriek Show trailers and a still gallery. Nevertheless it's still worth working if your into gore and sleaze movies.

Also recommended: "Re-Animator", "Cannibal Ferox", "Bloodsucking Freaks", "Jungle Holocaust (a.k.a. Last Cannibal World)", "Maniac (1980)", "Hostel 1 & 2", "The Devil's Rejects", "Saw Trilogy", "Ichi The Killer", "From Dusk Till Dawn", "Day of the Dead", "Mountain of the Cannibal God", "Zombie Holocaust", "City of the Living Dead", "Zombi 2 (a.k.a. Zombie)", "Eaten Alive! (1980)", "Texas Chainsaw Massacre series plus 2003 remake & The Beginning", "Hannibal", "Hellraiser", "The Toxic Avenger", "I Spit on Your Grave", "Faces of Death" and "Cannibal Holocaust".

Emanuelle is back! More EROTIC & EXOTIC than ever! Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1984) Directed by Joe D'Amato (Aristide Massaccesi). Starring the cast of Laura Gemser and Gabriele Tinti amongst many others.

Joe D'Amato (Aristide Massaccesi) was born on December 15, 1936, in Rome and died in Rome, Italy because of a heart attack. The last film that D'Amato was working on befoe his death, was a movie called "PLANKTON" (1995). That was supposed to be about a group of young divers that become infected with a 'virus' which results in rape and bloody mayhem the way only Joe can do it.

A gruesome cannibalistic slaying at a New York hospital sends the beautiful investigative journalist Emmanuelle (Laura Gemser) into a steamy jungle inferno to track down the last existing cannibal tribe! See Emmanuelle face her greatest carnal challenge. Will Emmanuelle's erotic charms tame the most savage, flesh-hungry beast?