Schiave bianche: violenza in Amazzonia (1985)

Director:

Mario Gariazzo

Writer:

Franco Prosperi (writer)

Release Date:

9 August 1985 (Italy)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Horror | Romance

Tagline:

Only one thing kept her alive.

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Tribe | Death | Prisoner | Violence | South America

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Elvire Audray	...	Catherine Miles
Will Gonzales	...	Umukai
Dick Campbell
Andrea Coppola	...	Catherine's Uncle (as Andrew Louis Coppola)
Dick Marshall
Alma Vernon
Grace Williams
Sara Fleszer
Mark Cannon
James Boyle
Peter Robyns
Jessica Bridges
Stephanie Walters
Neal Berger
Deborah Savage

Also Known As:

Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story (International: English title)
Cannibal Holocaust 2: The Catherine Miles Story (Europe: English title)
Captive Women VII: White Slave
Forest Slave (USA)
White Slave

Runtime:

90 min | UK:89 min (cut)

Country:

Italy

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R | UK:18 (cut) | Finland:K-18 | France:-12 | Iceland:(Banned) | Netherlands:16 | Norway:18 | Spain:18 | West Germany:18 | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Company:

Cinevega

Trivia:

This is the first of two movies that adopted the alternate title of Cannibal Holocaust 2, in hopes of boosting the movie's popularity by associating it with the more notorious Cannibal Holocaust (1980).

Quotes:

Catherine Miles: Sometimes the dead come back.

Movie Connections:

Spin off from Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

A truckload of sleaze, gore and nudity

This Italian film with once again more alternative titles than actual dialogue is a mid-80's exploitation attempt by enthusiast director Mario Gariazzo, who obviously was deeply impressed by the work of his fellow Italian filmmakers Rugero Deodato and Umberto Lenzi. It's a supposedly true story (yeah…sure) about an 18-year-old girl who visits her parents' plantation in the middle of the Amazon jungle. Shortly after her arrival, her parents are brutally murdered and beheaded during a boat ride. The poor cutie is taken prisoner by a savage and primitive tribe. During two years, she's has to take part in traditional and barbaric rites of this tribe. She's sold to the richest man in town (price = one goat and a chicken), has to work and, eventually, she escapes with the head warrior she has fallen in love with.

Now, 'Amazonia' isn't a bad little flick but it tries to be so much bigger than it actually is. The entire production seems to shout out: 'Look, we're as good as Cannibal Holocaust!!!' The opening sequences, in which the beautiful jungle is shown guided by a great score, is an exact copy of Deodato's film and throughout the whole film, the same documentary style is used. The film could have done without these pretentious aspects. At his best, Amazonia is like a fairly reasonable crossover between Cannibal Holocaust and Umberto Lenzi's 'Deep River Savages' (in which an Englishman spends years among a primitive tribe in New-Guinea). It's not nearly as memorable as the majority of Italian sleaze classics and that's merely due to the atrocious acting of Elvire Audrey. There's some great gore and terrific authentic sleaze to enjoy, though.