Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals
Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals is a 1977 film from Italy, directed by Joe D'Amato, running 93 minutes. reelscum files it under cannibal boom and sexploitation.
- Year
- 1977 · 1970s films
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Director
- Joe D'Amato
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- known (26/100)
- Also known as
- Emmanuelle and the Last Cannibals · Emanuelle's Amazon Adventure · Trap Them and Kill Them · Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals
Defined in the glossary: Cannibal boom, Sexploitation
Black Emanuelle wanders into a cannibal picture, and D'Amato lets both halves misbehave.
Joe D'Amato had a Black Emanuelle series and a cannibal boom on his hands at the same time, so he welded them together. Laura Gemser plays the globe-trotting photojournalist Emanuelle, who traces the tribal scars on a patient in a New York asylum back to a supposedly extinct cannibal tribe in the Amazon and heads upriver for the story. What that gives you is the softcore travelogue of the Emanuelle films spliced onto the disembowelments of the cannibal cycle, with Gemser gliding through nudity, jungle peril and D'Amato's enthusiastic prosthetic gore in roughly equal measure. It is sleazier and more cheerful than Deodato's grim landmarks, more interested in exploitation than atrocity, and considerably easier to sit through for it. Note the single m: this is the Gemser jungle picture, not the 1974 Sylvia Kristel perfume advertisement.
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The cycle in depth
- The Italian cannibal cycle, 1977 to 1985
Eight years, a dozen films, one arrest, and a court appearance to prove the cast were still alive.
- The grindhouse and where the word came from
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Filed alongside
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Anthropophagus
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Salon Kitty
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Jungle Holocaust
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Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks
Same Ilsa, new empire. The harem keeps the whip, loses the swastika.
Flower and Snake
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In the Realm of the Senses
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Camille 2000
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