Director Joe D'amato is perhaps Italy's greatest director of exploitative sleaze and can always be relied upon to go the extra distance when it comes to delivering gratuitous sex and violence. It's not that surprising, therefore, to discover that Emanuelle And The Last Cannibals not only delivers the usual smörgåsbord of gory delights typical of the genre, but also offers endless soft-core humping, near the knuckle scenes of female self-gratification, and a smoking chimpanzee.
Once again, D'amato's regular leading lady Laura Gemser plays sexually liberated reporter Emanuelle, who always gets her story, whatever the risks. This time, she discovers the existence of a cannibalistic tribe in the Amazon and puts together an expedition in order to explore the region. Inevitably, the team meet up with the local gut-munchers and suffer a variety of gruesome fates.
Fans of hot, hot women and cheesy gore will have a blast with this film, since D'amato is a director who has never needed an excuse to get his actresses buck nekkid or ladle on the splatter. The first half of the film concentrates primarily on the characters' sexual shenanigans, with Emanuelle getting it on with a couple of lucky guys (with Gemser showing viewers her full frontal as usual), whilst sexy redhead Maggie (Nieves Navarro) and tasty blonde Isabelle (Mónica Zanchi) go even further: both women have fairly explicit scenes in which they enthusiastically explore their own jungles, and Navarro gets jiggy with her native guide. The latter half of the film is more about the violence, and features some nasty disembowellings (including the killing of hot nun, Sister Angela), a beheading, impalements, and a rather laughable moment in which a guy is cut in half with a length of string (achieved via a particularly dreadful optical effect).
A wonderfully trashy ending sees Isabelle gang-banged by the cannibals and prepared for sacrifice, before being saved at the last minute by a totally starkers Emanuelle.
Once again, D'amato's regular leading lady Laura Gemser plays sexually liberated reporter Emanuelle, who always gets her story, whatever the risks. This time, she discovers the existence of a cannibalistic tribe in the Amazon and puts together an expedition in order to explore the region. Inevitably, the team meet up with the local gut-munchers and suffer a variety of gruesome fates.
Fans of hot, hot women and cheesy gore will have a blast with this film, since D'amato is a director who has never needed an excuse to get his actresses buck nekkid or ladle on the splatter. The first half of the film concentrates primarily on the characters' sexual shenanigans, with Emanuelle getting it on with a couple of lucky guys (with Gemser showing viewers her full frontal as usual), whilst sexy redhead Maggie (Nieves Navarro) and tasty blonde Isabelle (Mónica Zanchi) go even further: both women have fairly explicit scenes in which they enthusiastically explore their own jungles, and Navarro gets jiggy with her native guide. The latter half of the film is more about the violence, and features some nasty disembowellings (including the killing of hot nun, Sister Angela), a beheading, impalements, and a rather laughable moment in which a guy is cut in half with a length of string (achieved via a particularly dreadful optical effect).
A wonderfully trashy ending sees Isabelle gang-banged by the cannibals and prepared for sacrifice, before being saved at the last minute by a totally starkers Emanuelle.