A young girl watches her parents getting killed and is then captured by headhunters in the Amazon. She lives with the tribe in their village and finds love there too, but at the same time she seeks revenge for her parents death.
Cannibal Holocaust 2, yeah right, the only thing similar is the very intro which is kind of a rip-off of Cannibal Holocaust with music imitating Riz Ortolani's famous score (and we keep hearing it ever once in a while the film throughout just like in CH.) That the film calls itself Cannibal Holocaust 2 is only a bad thing so don't let that fool ya, because this one doesn't have anything to offer that even comes remotely close to the mother of ALL cannibal films. While Cannibal Holocaust was raw and brutal and had actual cannibals in it, we hardly get to see any cannibals at all in Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story, and those that we actually get to see are tame... very tame. In other words, cannibal action went out the window when they did this one but it still has some good things to offer, like plenty of gore and a lot of nudity.
 
On the other hand, the nudity won't make you go whoa! unless you've been spending the last decade of your life in a convent or so. Still, it's quite fun watching Catherine Miles (Elvire Audray) running around naked in the forest for a while. Basically, 18 year old Catherine takes a trip with her parents on a boat on the Amazon river and they end up getting killed and she's brought by a tribe to their village where she's sold to the richest guy, (he pays one goose, one "waterdog" and one turtle for her.) She adjusts to life in the village but at the same time wants revenge for her parents getting killed. Eventually she gets that but that's a little twist to that which I obviously won't reveal to you.
This is a B-grade movie (actually C), keep that in mind if you're planning to watch it. I'm a huge fan of all these Italian cannibal flicks and that is reason enough for me to sit through a film like this, but I wouldn't really recommend it to people. Also, Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story has tons of errors and some mistakes in it, the editing is not the greatest, the dialogue sucks really bad at times and the director, well you'll notice when you see it. What you get here is a sleazy B-flick that actually provides some entertainment, is easy to watch and kinda fun to laugh at. Enjoy!
Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story is one of those so-bad-it's-good flicks and even though it's quite the shitty kinda movie, I never felt cheated for having spent time sitting through it. The actors suck, gruesome cannibal action is non-existant, the dialogue is BS and those involved in the making of this flick may have been drunk from start to finish. Still, it provides some decent entertainment, is sleazy enough to put a smile on your face and does have some semi-cool gore to offer. Oh, I almost forgot, it's supposedly based on a true story.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Cannibal Holocaust 2: The Catherine Miles Story, Captive Women VII: White Slave, Forest Slave, White Slave, Schiave bianche: violenza in Amazzonia
MOVIE YEAR: 1985
DIRECTOR: Mario Gariazzo
WRITING CREDITS: Franco Prosperi
GENRE: Adventure, Drama, Horror
CAST: Elvire Audray, Will Gonzales, Dick Campbell
COUNTRY: Italy
RUNTIME: 90 min
RATING: 4/10
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