Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals

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Summary: The Classic Cannibal Flick
Review: "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!

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Summary: Naked Power
Review: 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 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 near-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.

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Summary: Didn't Emanuelle used to involve mostly eroticism?
Review: If you want erotica then this isn't the Emanuelle film for you. Yes, there are a couple of so-so love scenes, but the one lesbian scene is pratically non-existent, and the obvious focus of this one is the blood and gore content. I expected more erotic content, and instead got mostly gruesome scenes that I didn't particularly expect. Remember that scene in "Tarzan the Ape Man" where a nude Bo Derek was tied up and bathed by native women? That scene was erotic. Nothing like that one this video.

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Summary: Truly Unique Cannibal Horror Film!!
Review: Not being a fan of cannibal films, but a huge fan of Italian horror in particular, especially Lucio Fulci, my expectations were kind of low. However, I found myself pleasantly surprised!! At some point during my teens I must have seen every Emmanuelle film in existence as they are broadcast on cable here almost every weekend, this one however eluded me until I saw this fine dvd from shriek show. This is a very unique entry in the series indeed being equal parts softcore porn, jungle adventure and gross out horror. The story is paced well enough with the action really exploding in the last half hour. There is enough T&A and sex scenes interspersed thoughout to keep it interesting as well as many very sickening gore scenes that will keep gorehounds happy. The story is simple: Sexy reporter(Laura Gemser), after an encounter with a female cannibal in a mental hospital, journeys to South America to find proof of cannibalistic tribal practices. She hooks up with an anthropologist and a big game hunter and his wife along the way. Many meet gruesome fates before the end credits roll-but I wont spoil the film for prospective buyers. All in all, a very enjoyable film and far superior to other cannibal films that I have seen such as Cannibal Ferox and Slave Of The Cannibal God. Now if only shriek show would hurry and release an uncut version of D'Amatos's Anthrophagus (aka The Grim Reaper). In closing, if you are looking for nail biting suspense and oscar caliber performances you might want to look elsewhere, but if you are looking for a true Euro sleaze and trash fest with liberal doses of gratuitous sex and excessive violence you could do a lot worse than picking up this dvd!! The extras are slim though, only a couple of short trailers and a still gallery, would have been nice to have a commentary track or an interview with Gemser. Oh well!!

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Summary: Didn't Emanuelle used to involve mostly eroticism?
Review: 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.

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Summary: Sex, Cannibals and Rock & Roll!
Review: 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. 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.

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Summary: great film hopeless dvd
Review: the last cannibals is truly a great film for lovers of off beat movies from the golden era of horror and sex films the 70s this film is wall to wall full of campy sex and horror so fans of sleazey euro movies should rejoice now that this movie is on dvd well not quite this dvd is very poor why you ask is it becouse of the lack of extras well not realy the film would be more than worth having extras or not the reason is that the 1.85 ratio on this dvd has been streached into the 4.3 ratio of your tv so everybody looks like they have been through the rack and the only way i have found to see this film properly is to buy a wide screen tv or to press the zoom button on your dvd player to zoom 1 this for some strange reason will correct the ratio but in zoom 1 mode so you loose information on the sides, well at least it works on my older model toshiba dvd player but not on my newer connia dvd player you can try it on your dvd player it may work it may not, the picture quality of the film is very good when veiwed on a wide screen but you shouldnt need a 16*9 large screen tv to see the film properly.iam lucky enough to have such a tv but i find this disk hard to watch on my smaler 4*3tv as i said great film 5 stars worth but the disk could /should have been better.

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Summary: great film hopeless dvd
Review: the last cannibals is truly a great film for lovers of off beat movies from the golden era of horror and sex films the 70s this film is wall to wall full of sex and horror so fans of sleaze should rejoice now that this movie is on dvd well not quite this dvd is very poor why you ask is it becouse of the lack of extras well not realy the film would be more than worth having extras or not the reason is that the 1.85 ratio on this dvd has been streached into the 4.3 ratio of your to tv so everybody looks like they have been through the rack and the only way i have found to see this film properly is to press the zoom button on your dvd player to zoom 1 this for some strange reason will correct the ratio but in zoom 1 mode so you loose information on the sides as i said great film 5 stars worth butb only 1 star dvd

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Summary: Excellent
Review: 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.

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Summary: Buy this DVD classic !
Review: 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!