Underplayed Gems

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977)

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals poster
Original title
Emanuelle e gli ultimi cannibali
Directed by
Joe D'Amato
Genre
horror film, erotic film, sexploitation film, cannibal film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 33m
Rated
R
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 122 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A photojournalist finds a woman with a tribal tattoo in a mental hospital. She travels to the Amazon with a professor to find a cannibal tribe that was thought to be extinct.

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What happens

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (Italian: Emanuelle e gli Ultimi Cannibali), also known as Trap Them and Kill Them, is a 1977 Italian sexploitation cannibal film directed by Joe D'Amato. The film involves photojournalist Emanuelle (Laura Gemser), who encounters a cannibalistic woman bearing a tattoo of an Amazonian tribe in a mental hospital. Along with Professor Mark Lester (Gabriele Tinti), the two travel to the Amazon with a team to discover the source of the long-thought-extinct tribe that still practices cannibalism today. 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). D'Amato referred it in an interview as "a reasonable commercial success, especially abroad". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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