Emanuelle e gli ultimi cannibali (1977)

User Rating:

5.0/10   

Director:

Joe D'Amato

Writers:

Joe D'Amato (screenplay)
Joe D'Amato (story)

Release Date:

June 1984 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Horror

Tagline:

That Emanuelle girl is back more EROTIC & EXOTIC than ever

Plot:

While doing undercover work in a mental hospital, Emanuelle discovers a girl who seems to have been raised by a tribe of amazonian cannibals...

Plot Keywords:

Tribe | Cannibal | Mental Hospital | Jungle | Death

Cast

Laura Gemser	...	Emanuelle
Gabriele Tinti	...	Professor Mark Lester
Nieves Navarro	...	Maggie McKenzie (as Susan Scott)
Donald O'Brien	...	Donald McKenzie
Percy Hogan	...	Salvadore
Mónica Zanchi	...	Isabelle Wilkes
Annamaria Clementi	...	Sister Angela (as Anne Maria Clementi)
Geoffrey Copleston	...	Wilkes
Dirce Funari	...	Mental Institution Cannibal Girl
Pierluigi Cervetti		(as Pierluigi Cervetti Valle)
Bona Bono
Maria Gabriella Mezzett		(as Maria Gabriella Mezzetti)
Massimo Ciprari
Giuseppe Auci

Also Known As:

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals
Emanuelle's Amazon Adventure
Trap Them and Kill Them

Runtime:

85 min | UK:87 min (heavily cut) | Finland:94 min (uncut) (1980)

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Telecolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:18 (re-rating: 2002) (cut) | UK:X (original rating: 1978) (heavily cut) | Italy:VM18 | Netherlands:16 | Finland:K-18 (uncut) (2006) | Australia:R | Finland:K-18 (heavily cut) (1980) | Germany:(Banned) | West Germany:18 | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Filming Locations:

American Museum of Natural History - Central Park West and 79th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Flora Film

Trivia:

As Emanuelle and a companion drive through Times Square, movie theater marquees boast titles such as The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) and "John Holmes in Young and Wet" (Virgins in Heat (1976)).

Goofs:

Factual errors: The "monkey" smoking as it watches the two women bathe near a waterfall is not a monkey. It's a chimpanzee - and chimpanzees are African animals, not to be found in South America. Besides, how would a wild chimp/monkey know how to smoke?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Transgressions of Tina (2008) (V)

Soundtrack:

Make Love on the Wing

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977)

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