4. Emanuelle And The Last Cannibals (1977)
Emanuelle is doing her usual undercover thing - this time in a mental ward with women. One of the women is in a state of delirium and bites a nurse. This situation resolves itself by Emanuelle booking a ticket to the jungle in order to get a scoop on cannibals. She is accompanied by an anthropologist, a hunter and his sex crazed wife, a nun and a random blonde chick whose purposes seems to be throwing off her clothes every two minutes. Being a Joe D'Amato film, you can expect sex, lots of sex. The characters in the film act in a typical D'Amato voyeuristic fashion - there is a lot of people pleasuring themselves while they watch other people having sex. But never mind that. Eventually our lusty group are confronted by cannibals and must fight any way they can for survival. As usual, our girl Emanuelle saves the day! Even if you don't give a toss about cannibals, you can always endure Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals as a pervy little sex story. The female characters are all very attractive although Laura Gemser, as Emanuelle remains the sexiest of them all. There are rather graphic shots of women masturbating in the film - which is akin to anything Jess Franco could produce. Emanuelle and the Last Cannibal is a good fun film, one of the lighter entries in the Laura Gemser 'Black Emanuelle' series. It definitely fails as a horror flick, having zero suspense and zero frights. The gore is laughable and lame. However, the score is awesome - real 1970s porno movie stuff. Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals shows director D'Amato's penchant for mixing gore with hardcore sex. An innovative approach to the genre which led to Emanuelle in America, Porno Holocaust and the 'classic' Erotic Nights of the Living Dead.