I love this movie so much

Thanks for the memories!

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977) * 1/2 (out of 4)Reporter Emanuelle (Laura Gemser) is undercover in a hospital when a female patient eats the breast of one of the nurses. 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. I must admit that I really don't find any of them to be all that good, although each of them at least has some sort of sleaze that makes them memorable to a certain level. With that said, EMANUELLE AND THE LAST CANNIBALS is a notorious film due to some violence but in all honesty it's not that good.The Black Emanuelle series was a rip-off as is but this film also tried to cash-in on the success of various cannibal movies that were quite popular during this period. Those films were certainly controversial in their own right but this thing here just comes across as a rip-off and nothing more. There's certainly nothing erotic about this picture and it doesn't matter how beautiful Gemser is. 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. This film here has a slow pace at times and it just isn't very entertaining. Gemser is certainly easy on the eyes and she owns this role but the end results are weak to say the least. Exploitation fans will still want to check it out but there are much better films out there.

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.

Oh gosh! This movie was really hard to watch! It's completely boring and unbelievably stupid too. The acting is incredibly poor, so are the dialogs. The plot.., well, it's quite typical for all of the cannibal movies, but the persons in this story are so dumb and their behavior is so illogic that it makes you pray that this whole parody would end as fast as it can. What's more, it isn't even too gory - there are only few short scenes, but they don't make any impression. Even the beauty of Laura Gemser doesn't help - this is probably the worst cannibal movie I've ever seen. No, sorry, the worst is "Cannibals" by Jess Franco, so this must take the 2nd place.

Wow. This one sat on my shelf for about 6 months before I popped it in and I sort of wish I had done it sooner.The viewer is treated to more nudity than is found in your standard cannibal flick. It's a lot more porno-ish than others of its ilk. 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. Then there is more sex. Finally, the whole group gets massacred by savages and the fun begins. Nipples get sliced off and eaten, innards get ripped out and munched on, a dude gets sliced in half, longways...it's pretty awesome. Very inventive dismembering sequences and killings.Some of the shots were clearly done out of sequence and it appears to be night time when it is supposed to be day. The acting is all around terrible but it remains entertaining throughout. One thing I enjoyed about this cannibal film was the lack of animal violence that is found in so many others in the genre. I for one thought the movie was way better for the lack of that.By far the most impressive thing about this movie to me was the score which I thought was amazing. Wish I could find the soundtrack.In short, if you enjoy cannibal flicks with lots of raunchy sex thrown in for good measure and don't mind some poor acting, check out "Emmanuelle and the Last Cannibals." Maybe a good 'first date' kinda flick to watch with a chick...8 out of 10, kids.