The Green Inferno

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The Green Inferno

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2015

1h 40m

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New York college student Justine (Lorenza Izzo), a lawyer's daughter, meets a student activist named Alejandro (Ariel Levy) when he goes on a hunger strike on behalf of underpaid janitors. Smitten, Justine agrees to help Alejandro undertake his next project: to save the Amazon. She soon learns to regret her decision when their plane crashes in the Peruvian jungle and she and the rest of their group are taken captive by a tribe of hungry cannibals.

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Critics Consensus

The Green Inferno may not win writer-director Eli Roth many new converts, but fans of his flair for gory spectacle should find it a suitably gruesome diversion.

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Jason Bailey

Flavorwire

05/03/2016

It's mostly just sad - not because Roth takes such a sharp scalpel to the social justice movement, but because he swings a baseball bat, and misses by a mile.

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Mark Kermode

Observer (UK)

02/14/2016

1/5

Flat-pack acting, frat-boy screenwriting (the portrayal of activists is spitefully dumb) and retro gore combine with smug throwback neocolonialist racism and unfunny jokes about diarrhoea, dope and Scooby-Doo.

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David Jenkins

Little White Lies

02/12/2016

1/5

es, Roth's film has its expected moments of high transgression, but you can never get away from the fact that all these references have been attached to the most hackneyed teen slasher narrative imaginable.

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Max Allen

Horror Movie Talk

Dec 4

6/10

It’s still enjoyable to watch, but I can’t help but roll my eyes a bit at the way the tribe is depicted as the most evil, bloodthirsty killers imaginable.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

05/27/2022

2/4

The Green Inferno provides some momentary shocks, but it’s as heavy-handed as anything on Roth’s résumé.

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Jason Adams

My New Plaid Pants

07/02/2021

More goofy than it ever manages scary

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Steven F.

@SteveGotScored Feb 25

A very entertaining cannibal movie!

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Rohit R

@RT41221724 Jan 25

Message was messy. But felt like a fun roller-coaster.

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Naïra F

@Naira540 Jan 15

Absolutely disgusting

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James W

@RT96914964 Nov 15

Like so many modern horror films i wasn't sure whether it was more of a comedy. Don't watch whilst eating a red curry like i did. Gory.

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Dave B

@DaveB190 Nov 10

Eli Roth's Magnum Opus. One of the goriest big Hollywood movies to date. Suppose you don't want to watch a super gory, bloody movie. I would not recommend this movie. Suppose you want to see Eli Roth excel at what he does best. Then go for it.

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Wayne K

@RT88290232 Sep 22

Eli Roth’s films are definitely not to everyone’s tastes. Case in point, The Green Inferno. If you love what he does, you’re gonna love this film. If you don’t, then it’s gonna be a long hour and 40 minutes. The film has incredible cinematography, with the most vivid greens and reds you’re likely to see outside of a Dario Argento film. Speaking of Italian directors, Roth clearly idolises the likes of Ruggero Deodato and Umberto Lenzi, as TGI is basically his attempt to make an Amazon cannibal film. Sadly, Roth has used this conceit to essentially do ‘Cabin Fever In the Jungle’. Average acting, bad dialogue and skin-peeling obnoxious characters. The social satire of Holocaust and, to a lesser extent, Ferox is either missing completely or utterly misguided, depending on how you look at it. In Holocaust, it was obvious who the villain was, and the film leant completely into that. Here, the indigenous tribes are either the goodies or the baddies depending on who needs to die or be horribly mutilated. I’ll give the film credit for its intensity and willingness to be gruesome and brutal at the most unexpected moment, and I would definitely recommend it for its sheer balls to the wall insanity, but if you’re looking for something more profound than screaming and dismemberment, you’re better off looking elsewhere.

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Synopsis

New York college student Justine (Lorenza Izzo), a lawyer's daughter, meets a student activist named Alejandro (Ariel Levy) when he goes on a hunger strike on behalf of underpaid janitors. Smitten, Justine agrees to help Alejandro undertake his next project: to save the Amazon. She soon learns to regret her decision when their plane crashes in the Peruvian jungle and she and the rest of their group are taken captive by a tribe of hungry cannibals.

Director: Eli Roth
Producer: Christopher Woodrow, Molly Conners, Eli Roth, Miguel Asensio Llamas, Nicolás López
Screenwriter: Eli Roth, Guillermo Amoedo
Distributor: High Top Releasing
Production Co: Worldview Entertainment, Sobras International Pictures, Dragonfly Entertainment
Rating: R (Brief Graphic Nudity|Aberrant Violence and Torture|Some Drug Use|Grisly Disturbing Images|Language|Sexual Content)
Genre: Horror, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 25, 2015, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 16, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $7.2M
Runtime: 1h 40m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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