The Green Inferno

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The Green Inferno

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Released Sep 25, 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

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.

May 3, 2016

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Mark Kermode

Observer (UK)

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.

Rated: 1/5

Feb 14, 2016

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David Jenkins

Little White Lies

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.

Rated: 1/5

Feb 12, 2016

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

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

Rated: 2/4

May 27, 2022

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Jason Adams

My New Plaid Pants

More goofy than it ever manages scary

Jul 2, 2021

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Emma Wolfe

SpookyAstronauts

This movie tackles a surprising and different kind of storyline yet it is quite predictable. It won't go down is one of my favorites of the year but it was exciting and I found it very amusing and entertaining.

Rated: 7/10

Jun 1, 2021

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Mz. Ghostly

Sick, gross, disturbing, and borderline offensive, Eli Roth does what he does best with a film too grotesque and disturbing to look away for fans of the tribal cannibal sub-genre.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/16/25

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Baby S

The Green Inferno may not be as Hostel or Cabin Fever but it proves itself to be a cannibalistic vacation disaster .

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/23/24

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David S

Eli Roth's first few films established him as a promising filmmaker in the horror genre. However, his late films are lazy, dull, and lack the fun or shock value of those first few. The Green Inferno is no exception to that issue. Roth's desire to pay homage to such horror cult classics as Cannibal Holocaust and Cannibal Ferox is noted. However, he offers a bland, gory film that delivers nothing original. He overplays the sexual exploitation to gain shock, but it ultimately fails to be anything more than a kind of adolescent boy's idea of "shocking." Don't waste your time or sanity.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/10/24

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Audience Member

Plot too hard too understand and too silly

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

12/01/24

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Samm 2

Fantastic! I really liked finally some sincere horror movie, interesting themes like the hypocrisy of many activist groups and the cultural relativism. A great tribute to cannibal movies.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

11/23/24

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Shawn H

I really enjoyed this film. The gore was top notch and the message was great. We should leave these old tribes alone and take care of our rain Forrests. What they do is their business and we should not base their beliefs on ours.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/27/24

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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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