Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story

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Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story

1985

Schiave bianche: violenza in Amazzonia

Directed by Mario Gariazzo

Only one thing kept her alive.

A young woman seeks vengeance and finds love when her parents are killed in the Amazon and she is taken prisoner by an indigenous tribe of headhunters.

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Lexzilla
Review by Lexzilla ★★★

I picked this thinking I was getting a later, kinder, cuddlier version of the Italian cannibal films. One without real animal killings. As far as I was willing to dip my toe. Imagine my surprise then, when it turned out to be so cuddly, it wasn’t a cannibal film at all. The closest it got was an off-hand comment that another jungle tribe were. And instead, this was less taboo busting people eating effects and more jungle adventure-romance-courtroom drama talky fusion.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s still trashy, with its nudity, violence and stock wildlife footage of animals killing other animals. But there’s also a story that’s told in flashback narration style from our lead (Elvire Audray) as she’s on…

Sean Baker
Review by Sean Baker 6

Late entry in the Italian cannibal genre. First time watch for me.

Slig001
Review by Slig001 ★★★

This is often considered a late entry in the Italian cannibal subgenre, but it's actually more of a jungle exploitation courtroom drama. Unsurprisingly, this wasn't the genesis of a whole new subgenre. The film begins with a voiceover which actually gives a good indication as to what the rest of the film will be like - it's very talky. The plot basically follows a family that head off into the jungle, only to be killed save for the titular heroine, who is instead inducted into a primitive tribe. The bulk of the film is quite sombre with the odd spattering of gore here and there. The film seems to have an affinity for showing severed heads, but in fact most…

Johnny81
Review by Johnny81 ★★★½ Liked

This is a new one! A cannibal film mixed with a TV movie of the week true story... except it's not really a true story (to my embarrassment I had to check after) although to be fair some of it seemed plausible and it does ram its true story origins down your throat with its documentary styled opening a la Cannibal Holocaust.
Played like The Woman From Deep River but relayed as testimony as Elvire Audray stands trial for a double murder, vacantly recounting the horrors the befell her as she's taken into slavery by a tribe of "savages", the leader of which, Umukai played by Will Gonzales (who must've graduated with honours from the Mark Gregory school of acting)…

Bob McQueen
Review by Bob McQueen ★★★ Liked

Much more of a slower cannibal love story. There's a bit of gore and the animal cruelty that's there is more of the nature vs nature instead of "hey, there's an animal, let's slaughter it for shock value!". Not a bad way to end the Italian cannibal cycle.

horrormika
Review by horrormika ★★★

Day 25 of leaping over a winter trashfire challenge
Watch a movie from 1985

This was a ok movie, it could have been better but the pacing was slow and it dragged at the middle of the movie. The kills were done well at least, and the story was interesting i will be honest but it could have been paced better. The filming location was pretty and it was well filmed.

Overall if you are a fan of cannibal type movies i would suggest it to you, but if you aren't the biggest fan of those types of movies then i wouldn't suggest it to you.

morgue
Review by morgue ★★★½ 2

you know, i was going to make a golden temple amazons joke, but since that came out the year after this, i have a suspicion payet/franco (either one or both of them) may have seen this one. the beginning plots feel incredibly similar.

that being said, this is a story told in flashback. everything we learn is in a courtroom being told by catherine herself. there is blood and gore, but it feels far and few between. at least there's a beheading in this one! for what it is, it isn't terrible. if you're going in expecting something like cannibals ferox and holocaust or man from deep river, you're going to be sorely disappointed. that being said, i really wish there was a better release out there instead of the vhs rip i watched (though i do think the rip adds a certain charm to it).

Giallofever
Review by Giallofever ★★★★ Liked

This is one of my personal favourite cannibal films, cause it's not only about the gore,animal snuff scenes,which I totally hate. It's a pretty unusally told story for this kind of genre. Amazonia tells a true.story about suffering, revenge and most important a story about true love and sadness at the end.

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Review by 𝕷𝖎𝖟𝖟 🥀🦇 ★★★½ 3

Amazonia is a curious movie.
I liked it so far, I knew what to expect.
A little trashy and slow, it has some good practical effects, they even take the time to show the mutilations, and chopped heads, and I found it kinda cool.

The story is not the best, just slow, and at the end the cannibals were not as bad as you think and Catherine falls in love with one of them, I didn't expect that.

This soundtrack has some similitaries with the original Cannibal Holocaust. 😁

ELECTRICWIZARDx
Review by ELECTRICWIZARDx ★★★ 2

Much like with Jesus', the resurrection of the Italian Cannibal cycle wasn't as prolific and didn't get as much achieved as in the heyday, but it was still more than tolerable.

In fact I suppose this isn't really a cannibal film at all, except in content, setting and basic premise, so I'm counting it as one anyway.

Again, much like the resurrection of Jesus, White Slave or Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story, is set apart by being framed as a courtroom retelling of the events leading up to the murder of two of Catherine's family members. Catherine tells the story of her abduction and the murder of her family into a savage tribe, who introduce themselves with a beheading. She…

Kaleb
Review by Kaleb ★★★½ Liked

You know that scene in Baby Face where the old guy gives Barbara the Nietzsche rant? Well that happens in this movie but it's the lead's father giving her an Ayn Rand rant.


When I started this I thought I was watching Jess Franco's White Slave from the same year. I quickly realized it was not but this film had it's grip on me at this point. The movie deserves about 27 trigger warnings but if your watching this I'd really hope you're already familiar with the cruel, culturally insensitive and generally confrontational manor of these Italian genre films from this period.


Beyond the lens of 80s Italian exploitation lies a fairly solid & straight forward narrative that I was truly…

Jordan James Brooks
Review by Jordan James Brooks ★★★½

🎉🎉HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYBODY!! 🎉🎉

I wish I could have a more relevant, or planned feature for my first review of 2023, but this one was pre-written in sorts so I might as well post it for the new year. And here’s to another year of movie watching as always!!! 😊

This one’s more of an adventure-survival flick with a romance storyline interweaved, than a straight-up exploitation horror, despite it having clearly taken notes from the string of cannibal movies that preceded it; it even has a suspiciously similar score to that of Riz Ortolani’s work on Cannibal Holocaust. 

It stands out from many of the others though, and Elvire Audray is a genuine lead. It plays out as a…