The Japanese didn’t mess around when it came to promo posters during the 1970s. This one for 1977’s Emanuelle e gli ultimi cannibali, aka Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals gets the point of film across immediately. The promo stars Spanish actress Nieves Navarro, aka Susan Scott, and was taken from a production still—minus actor Percy Hogan, who’s been disappeared from the original image.
In the movie Hogan plays a bush guide named Salvadore, and now you know exactly what type of bush he guides himself into. It’s interesting that he was excised from the poster, but we’re also kind of surprised Navarro is on there in this pose, since all by herself she still makes for a shocker of a visual. But you have to admit the overall effect is really striking. We’d even say beautiful.
Looking at the minimal amount of poster text, it’s pretty clear the title of the film changed. Emanuelle e gli ultimi cannibali was deemed a little too unwieldy it seems, so the distributors called it 猟奇変態地獄, which means “bizarre pervert hell.” You see the flipside of the sheet just above. If you haven’t seen the movie, we’ll tell you that bizarre is a pretty apt description. We did a short write-up of it back in 2013 and included more production photos, so if you’re curious have a look here.
