Variety
Empty cynicism isn’t a substitute for well-reasoned critique, and Roth winds up looking more clueless than the so-called “social justice warriors” he’s trying to satirize.
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The Green Inferno
Cannibalistic horror from Eli Roth (Hostel), filmed on location in the rainforest of Peru where the native tribe has never been filmed before. The story follows a group of American students who travel to the Amazon in hopes of saving the tribe, only to be taken hostage…
Roth enlisted a real Peruvian tribe as the film's principle cast (apart from the American students). Roth has said the tribe not only had no acting experience, but weren't even aware of what a movie is.
Says Roth: "We went in the Amazon deeper than anyone has ever shot a movie before. I went so far up the river, we went to a village where they had no electricity, no running water, and they never before had seen a movie or television... We had to explain to them conceptually what a movie was, and we brought a television and a generator and we showed them Cannibal Holocaust [the infamous 1980 cannibal horror]. They thought it was the funniest thing that they had ever seen, but we had to know whether they were down with it to let us in their village."
Less2013Rating: R18+, High impact violence, blood and gore100 minsUSA
Horror
- Director:
- Eli Roth ('Hostel', 'Hostel: Part II', 'Cabin Fever')
- Writer:
- Eli RothGuillermo Amoedo
- Cast:
- Lorenza IzzoAriel LevyDaryl SabaraKirby Bliss BlantonSky FerreiraMagda Apanowicz
The Green Inferno | Reviews
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The Guardian
No one could accuse Roth of lacking guts – even if he hasn’t found the perfect recipe for them.
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Hollywood Reporter
Izzo is a fine genre actress, standing out from a cast of blonde women with her naturalistic performance and signs of courage and initiative.
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Entertainment Weekly
Less a riff on spaghetti splatter flicks like Cannibal Holocaust than a desperate-to-shock pastiche of guts and gore served with a wink to audiences with strong stomachs. You know who you are.
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The Green Inferno is available to stream in Australia now on Google Play and Apple TV and Prime Video Store.