Emanuelle & the Last Cannibals

This is a great, fun film. Once this finally arrives, my cannibal film collection will be complete. But here is where my frustration begins. First, back in early April I noticed a used copy of this available for 25 bucks. That's pretty decent for a rare oop film. Then after a month of waiting, my order is canceled from Amazon's end due to a lack of availability. So I go to movies unlimited. They had a copy for $24 and now it's gone and so is the listing for the film. I check Diabolik dvd, they don't have it. CD universe, not available and withdrawn. retromedia out of stock without any guarantee of restocking. Trash Palace doesn't have it. Ioffer only makes it available as a DVDR and no I don't go for those, the quality and replayability of DVDRs are bad. I come across another rare movie website I forgot the name to and had a copy. I ordered it, I think it was for $35 and waited another month just to get notified it has been cancelled by them because they didn't have it after looking. I looked at the Amazon. UK website and they had it but only for a translated value of $90. I come back here and finally Bookgrove has one for $45. I finally caved in and spend yes $45 for one dvd. I do not want to miss out on owning this film. It seems like a blu-ray edition was planned, but then was stopped, like someone or something is trying to bury this film out of existence. I don't like that. Every film deserves to be seen. Bookgrove has shipped the film and it's delivery is certainly taking it's time. Probably the dvd will show up on the last day of the windowed delivery estimate. It's just tantalizing me, it has taken me four months to obtain a copy of this film, the longest it's ever taken for any film I've searched for and if it takes longer than the delivery estimate it might be the final nail in the coffin to sever my business from online shopping forever. Please try and understand, I like to collect rare and hard to find films, and this one takes the cake.

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 deliberately 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 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.

Bought this movie because I thought the very idea of it was nuts, a soft-core porn film combined with an Italian cannibal movie!? But I was pleasantly surprised, the story is interesting, Laura Gemser is gorgeous and the tone is very evocative of movies like Man from Deep River or Cannibal Holocaust. plus there are so many interesting highlights, like Emanuelle coming up out of a lake like Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now. For a movie that's over 40 years old, the picture quality is great and the included special features are pretty good.

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Finalmente in versione completamente integrale e con audio italiano il quinto film della saga di "Emanuelle nera" editato in bluray grazie alla benemerita Severin.Il bluray non ha blocco regionale, i sottotitoli sono escludibili e la qualità audio e video è buona. Uscita quindi che surclassa tutte le altre edizione in bluray, dvd e vhs!Consigliato l'acquisto sia agli amanti del genere cannibalico, dell'erotico-esotico e della saga di Emanuelle, dato che il film è una commistione di generi.

Great film. Looks and sounds fantastic.

Parece mas una pelicula gore que de clase S con muchas visceras y muertes.

A 76 ans, j'étais curieux de voir ce film, annoncé " difficile à regarder " .De fait, je ne suis pas déçu.Attention : à réserver à un public très très très averti !