Nigel P This is certainly a curio - a fairly average story sprinkled thinly over lots of softcore sex scenes, with very occasional moments of pretty graphic gore. How does this differ from certain Jess Franco films? Difficult to answer really (Nico Fidenco's score – a definite highlight of this and his other Emanuelle films - is both wonderful and inappropriate in some of its usage, echoing Franco's habit of overlaying graphic scenes with the least assuming musical suites that work against the action rather than enhancing it)); superficially they are similar in style. And yet this lacks the fluidly eccentric directorial strokes of Franco. I note this purely as a personal observation; there's no reason to believe Franco or 'Emanuelle' Director Joe D'Amato were in any kind of competition. The dubbing is at times lacking, with such an effort made to match the words with the lips of the actors, sentences often have. Long. Pauses. In the. Middle. Of them.There's a moment where Emanuelle and Professor Mark Lester (Gabriele Tinti) grimly watch stabbings, flesh-eating, dismemberment and rape before leaving their hiding place saying "Let's do something." A little late perhaps! It would be grossly unfair to condemn this film for its treatment of women; it is guilty, yes, of titillation and exploitation, but it is far from alone in that at the time it was made. You could say it balances it out with the fact that Emanuelle, a female, is the heroine and is responsible for using her sexuality (and skin tone) to ultimately save her group.This film isn't as bad as I imagined it might be. It is, however, tonally disjointed with scenes of genuine horror mixed with leisurely sexual antics. There's no denying that Indonesian-Dutch born Laura Gemser is a definite presence on screen.This Emanuelle, or Black Emanuelle, is not to be confused with Emmanuelle, the French soft-core movie character based on the 1959 novel of the same name. This is the Italian variation. By removing one letter from the name, they somehow legally managed to skip through the copyright loophole and produce their own series of films, featuring Gemser.

Tromafreak Well, I'll tell ya one thing. Considering it's only 1976, these ain't the last cannibals, by any means. However, the legendary Emanuelle, along with her love scenes are present and ready for anything these bloodthirsty primitives throw at her! I've always been a fan of the films of Joe D'amato. Films like Beyond The Darkness and Anthropophagus are some of the most disturbing, and all around best that vintage Italian Exploitation has to offer. But I didn't realize until recently that D'amato's body of work extends to yet another sub-genre. Anyway, welcome back to the jungle.Emanuelle, Journalist/nympho, is working undercover in a hospital. She comes across a girl who was evidently raised by a tribe of Amazonian cannibals. Emanuelle and pals somehow end up in the Amazon. As if that's gonna help anything. As usual, they end up regretting their adventurous nature. And I'd just love to tell you that Emanuelle And The Last Cannibals is some kind of a gruesome, gory bloodbath, which includes mutilations and castrations like its counterparts, but sorry, not today. And not the usual trapped/hopeless/nightmarish vibe, either. This one is about the love scenes.Yet, the movie is still semi-gory. So, ultimately, everyone wins... Ya know what? I take that back. And here's why. It just occurred to me that Joe D'amato has thrown xxx love scenes in a number of his films. Not to mention he's made a lot of gore flicks that would put this particular one to shame.So, tell me, what exactly stopped the man from making Emanuelle And The Last Cannibals a gore-drenched Jungle-Porno... The cannibal masterpiece! But no! Wasn't meant to be. I was ready to give this one an 8/10, but I guess that wasn't meant to be, either. So, 7 it is!Now,don't think I'm not recommending this, as 7 is still respectable, but it just happens to be lacking in the obvious jungle gore qualities. But, see it!. By all means, definitely see it! Just make sure you see the others, too. Jungle Holocaust and Cannibal Ferox would be a good start. But if it's the love scenes that you're all about, then you might be happy to know that there's an actual Emanuelle series. Emanuelle In America, Emanuelle In Bangkok, Women's Prison Massacre. So, if you're looking for Sexploitation, only. There you go. Otherwise, the last cannibals are waiting! 7/10

Paul Andrews Emanuelle E Gli Ultimi Cannibali starts in New York where Evening Post newspaper journalist Emanualle (Laura Gemser) is undercover looking for stories, after seeing a nurse have half her breast bitten off by a female patient (Dirce Funari) Emanuelle learns that she was found near the Amazonian jungle & that she bears a tattoo of a long extinct tribe of cannibals. Intrigued by this woman's story Emanuelle convinces her editor Rod to organise & pay for an expedition to the Amozonian jungle for reasons I can't quite understand. Curator of the New York Natural History Museum Professor Mark Lester (Gabriele Tinti) agrees to lead the expedition, once there they intend to travel deep into the jungle but soon find themselves under attack from a local tribe of cannibals who are always on the look out for fresh meat...This Italian exploitation mix of boring soft-core sex & lame scenes of cannibalism is widely known to English speaking audiences under the title Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals & was co-written, photographed & directed by Joe D'Amato. Taking the old adage that sex & violence sells D'Amato takes it to heart & turns in this crappy little mix of soft-core sex & cheap gore effects, without wishing to state the obvious Emanuelle E Gli Ultimi Cannibali is a straight cross between a cheap porno & an Italian cannibal flick. Neither aspect really satisfied me & I must admit I really don't find much to enjoy in your average porno, I am one of those people who simply doesn't get anything out of watching two people having sex on screen especially when it's as tame as this. Emanuelle E Gli Ultimi Cannibali is strictly soft-core all the way, there are no male genitalia on show although there are plenty of dull as dishwater shots of people people groping each other on beds. The cannibal side of things aren't much better, it takes almost an entire hour for the first cannibals to show up & considering the film lasts less than ninety minutes that's just far too long. The story sucks as well, it's like the most basic story of a group of people going into the Amazonian jungle for extremely tenuous reasons & eventually running into cannibals who kill some of them, the end. The soft-core sex seems to be there to pad the paper thin plot out while the horror element is pretty much amounts to some cheap rubber gore effects.I must admit there is one scene in Emanuelle E Gli Ultimi Cannibali which is mildly interesting & that's when Emanuelle & her 'friend' Isabelle go swimming naked together leaving their things on the bank & a chimpanzee comes along, finds a packet of cigarettes, takes one out, puts it in his mouth & then lights up with a lighter & begins to smoke! I seriously doubt that was in the original script & was probably put in here as an odd bit of comedy relief when the makers discovered a chimpanzee who could smoke! Thinking about the scene now it's very un-PC as smoking is now frowned upon & of course animal rights is also a big issue these days so quite what animal lovers think of chimpanzee's being made to light up & smoke I'll never know! The sex scenes are poor, the actors are not good looking (am I the only one who thinks Laura Gemser is not attractive?), there are some awful continuity errors between night & day (one moment it's pitch black & everyone is sleeping the next it's broad daylight) & not even the cannibal scenes can save this. The gore effects are cheap even by Italian exploitation standards, there's a sliced off nipple, two scenes featuring women having their stomachs cut open & their guts removed & eaten, a couple of decapitated heads, a couple of dead bodies & someone is sliced in half off screen.Although credited as being shot on location in the Amazon it wasn't, the dull looking jungle scenes were shot in Italy & it shows although there is some nice late 70's location footage of New York at the start. Originally shot in Italian & terribly dubbed into English the acting probably sucked.Emanuelle E Gli Ultimi Cannibali is a film that I don't like & don't really have any time for, you would have thought a heady mix of sex & gore would make for a decent film but Emanuelle E Gli Ultimi Cannibali proves anyone can make a mess of even the simplest concepts. Nowhere near as good as the likes of Last Cannibal World (1977), Cannibal Holocaust (1980) or Cannibal Ferox (1981).

BA_Harrison 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.