Compendium of Massaccesi thought: horror, eroticism, art of
getting by, in this case under the Emanuelle’s brand. One of the
strongest points of the series and also one of the most interesting,
where our journalist is struggling with a tribe of cannibals really
angry, in the company of very naughty people. Gabriele Tinti, the
lovely Monica Zanchi and of course Laura Gemser (we’ll see them
again in Sister Emanuelle) with the help of the Nieves Navarro and
Donald O'Brien, are the protagonists of the story.
Strengths at the beginning and at the end. A nurse that bothers a
patient finds herself without a tit that finish in the mouth of the
young inpatient. Emanuelle takes pictures, filming, touches and creates
a big scoop. She became passionate about cannibals, she asks to the
Director of the newspaper to deal with the issue, she knows Mark Lester
(Tinti), a great expert in the field, they have sex and leave for the
Amazon. The final instead sees our Emanuelle that to foil a group
raping by cannibals comes out from the sea totally naked passing for a
Goddess.
In the middle of the movie unfortunately there is a little. A segment
of the film that diminishes the result, lost in forest, in absurd
instincts and in cannibals raids. Slow and certainly much less
convincing than the beginning and the end.
Flaws aside, D'Amato is the usual excellent craftsman able to move well
behind the camera and is lucky to have the music of the great Nico
Fidenco ("Make love on the wing"). The aforementioned inserts cannibal/
horror apart special effects not so rich, hit the imagination, while
eroticism a part the classic canons of the saga, relies on morbidity
with the director who always hides nothing.
Jennifer O'Sullivan is the so-called journalist who inspired the film.
Her, always so-called, reportage is the basis of this movie that
continues after the already described opening in the Amazonian forest
(actually we are in Lazio). Emanuelle with Mark Lester meets in place
the members of a mission and a family moved there. Sister Angela
(Annamaria Clementi) and Isabelle (Monica Zanchi) venture into the
forest. Meet the hunters and Maggie Donald McKenzie a bizarre couple,
with her who prefers the company of native guide and he who fondle
greedily Isabelle.
The violent attacks of cannibals, obviously angry, and they brutal
sacrifices severely affect the group that arrives at the good ending
with a few units. From the point of view of beauty, there is no doubt
that D'Amato plays it safe. Monica Zanchi is one of our favorite
supporting actresses and there is nothing to add about Nieves Navarro
and Laura Gemser. O'Brien and Tinti put out the fires of women and do
not go over to carry out the task.