Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story
by Mario Gariazzo
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Actor: Andrea Coppola, Dick Campbell, Dick Marshall, Elvire Audray, Will GonzalesDirector: Mario Gariazzo
Brand: Media Blasters
Cinematographer: Silvano Ippoliti
Editor: Gianfranco Amicucci
Writer: Franco Prosperi
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-30
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Shriek Show
Movie Reviews of Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story
Movie Review: Decent Exploitation Film, But DVD Specs Are Wrong...
Summary: 4 Stars
First let me start by saying that even though the DVD is supposed to be anamorphic widescreen, it is not. In fact it is not even a real pan and scan transfer. In order to view the movie in its appropriate aspect ratio (16:9) you must use the zoom function on your DVD player and zoom out to 3/4 the size. Otherwise you will see, not a pan and scan transfer, but one that has been (accidentally?) zoomed in at some point during the DVD creation process. The result is an abnormally cropped image.
On to the review....As some of the other reviews stated, this is NOT a cannibal film nor a horror movie. The tribe in the film is a tribe of headhunters and not a single act of cannibalism is shown in the movie. Instead this is an exploitation film about a young English woman kidnapped by a tribe of headhunters in the Amazon after her parents are brutally murdered and decapitated. The plot is good enough to keep the viewer interested the story is intriguing and the pacing keeps it from becoming boring. In true grindhouse fashion there is more nudity and gore than you can shake a headhunter's spear at. We get decapitations, animals killing each other, an alligator eating a native, beatings, a head blown apart by gunfire and more. Of course since this is a movie dealing with a woman victimized by a native Amazonian tribe there is nudity aplenty. The lead actress spends nearly the entire film naked as do the female natives.
So if exploitation is your thing you could do much worse than to watch this little forgotten flick.
Summary of Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story
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