aka: White Slave
Cannibal Holocaust 2: The Catherine Miles Story
Dir: Mario Gariazzo
The film is set up so as to fool the audience into believing it is an authentic narrative of what happened to 18 year old Catherine Miles (Elvire Audray) in the untamed Amazon and her blood thirsty revenge on those who sought to destroy her family. Opening with a post trial
interview with Kathy, the film flashes back to her testimony in court
which in turn flashes back to her trials in the Amazon. It is, of
course, fake.
On holiday from boarding school, Kathy flies to the Amazon in order to spend time with her parents on their plantation. As it is her birthday the family takes out their houseboat to an uncharted part of the mighty river to have a celebratory picnic. Following behind the houseboat are Kath's Aunt and Uncle along with their retainers. Shortly after mooring the houseboat, mother, father and Kathy are attacked by poisoned darts. The brutal attack kills her mother and father and paralyses Kathy; she cannot move but can still see and hear. Onto the houseboat a group of natives storm, seemingly intoxicated by the kills and the wonders of the modern world as represented by a well stocked bar and leather chairs. As is the custom of their tribe, the mother and father are decapitated and their heads taken as trophies. The hunting party's leader, Umukai, bleeds the poison from the blow gun dart stuck in Kathy's arm. He has claimed the blonde white woman as his own.
Umukai takes his prize back to his village and over time Kathy learns the practices, customs and language of the tribe. At all times Umukai treats Kathy well and fights for her as if he loves her but Kathy returns each affectionate gesture with hatred as she holds him responsible for her parent's death. In time, and with the help of Umukai's sister who just happens to have learned English at a nearby missionary school, Kathy learns the truth as to what happened on the houseboat on that fateful day. She sets out on a brutal mission of revenge.
Like its cinematic predecessors, AMAZONIA has plenty of stock jungle footage, animals eating other animals, and characters pondering who the real savages are. While it is no where near as shocking as many of the earlier Jungle exploitation films, it was passed off as a sequel to CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST for some releases. There's some crude gore and Kathy walking around topless for most of the running time but it's not enough to bolster the tired script and mediocre direction.
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