Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals
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| Directed by | Joe D'Amato |
| Produced by | Gianfranco Couyoumdjian |
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| Story by | Aristide Massaccesi |
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| Music by | Nico Fidenco |
| Cinematography | Aristide Massaccesi |
| Edited by | Alberto Moriani |
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| Distributed by | Flora Film |
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93 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (Italian: Emanuelle e gli Ultimi Cannibali) is a 1977 Italian sexploitation-cannibal film directed by Joe D'Amato. The film involves Emanuelle (Laura Gemser) a photojournalist who discovers a woman in a mental hospital who is a cannibal and features tattoos of an Amazonian tribe on her skin. Along with Professor Mark Lester (Gabriele Tinti), the two travel to Africa with a team to discover the source of long-thought-extinct tribe that practices cannibalism. Although most cannibal films of this period were shot in the Philippines or other exotic locales, D'Amato filmed this opus in a forest just outside of Rome.
The film is an entry in the Black Emanuelle series and features elements of cannibal films which had just gained popularity after the release of Ultimo mondo cannibale (1977).
In a New York City psychiatric ward, photojournalist Emanuelle learns about a girl there who was found in the Amazon rainforest. Emanuelle discovers that she appears to have been raised by the Apiaca, a tribe of cannibals thought to be lost. She contacts Professor Mark Lester, the curator at the National History Museum and persuades him to come with her to the Amazon.
On arriving in the Amazon, they are accompanied by Isabel Wilks, the daughter of the organizer of the expedition, and Sister Angela, who is going upriver to join a mission. Emanuele is attacked by a snake but rescued by hunter Donald Mackenzie. Mackenzie and his wife Maggie as well as their guide Salvadore join the group and inform Sister Angela that her convent has been attacked by what they presume to be cannibals and that no survivors remain.
The group continue into the jungle, and now being watched by unseen spectators. The group find a severed head on stake and Sister Angela disappears to be found impaled the next morning. Meanwhile, The Mackenzie's attempt to leave the group trying to find a crashed plane that contains diamonds. As they stumble upon the plane, they are attacked by a tribe of cannibals with Donald and Maggie being kidnapped. The rest of the group arrive just in time to see this happen, and attempt to find the cannibal village. On arrival, the cannibals kill Salvatore and Isabel is captured. Mark and Emanuelle manage to escape only to watch the Mackenzies brutally murdered. To save Isabel, Emanuelle paints a tribe's markings on her body to convince the natives that she is a goddess and take Isabel away. They manage to escape with Mark who had recovered a speedboat.
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