The Green Inferno

Plot synopsis:
In the opening shot, a tribesman walks through a rainforest with a child from the same tribe. They hear a loud rumbling noise. It's a bulldozer plowing through the forest.In the United States at Columbia University in New York City, we meet Justine (Lorenza Izzo), a college student. With her roommate Kaycee (Sky Ferreira), they sit through a lecture on the cruel traditions placed on women in African tribes, which horrifies Justine. Later, the two notice a group of janitors sitting for a hunger strike in order to obtain health insurance. The girls think these types of groups are stupid.After classes, Justine is invited by another student, named Jonah (Aaron Burns), to check out an activist group led by Alejandro (Ariel Levy). His cause is for the tribe in the Peruvian jungle. Justine makes a comment about the group starving themselves through the jungle for their cause, which Alejandro takes offense to. He orders Justine to leave.A few days later, Justine approaches Alejandro to apologize and decides she wants to join the cause. Another few days later, the two of them, plus a full group of activists, including Jonah, Alejandro's girlfriend Kara (Ignacia Allamand), Amy (Kirby Bliss Blanton), Amy's girlfriend Samantha (Magda Apanowicz), Lars (Daryl Sabara), and Daniel (Nicolas Martinez) head off on a flight, partially funded by Justine's dad, to Peru. Because the plane is small, it makes Amy anxious.Once the group arrives in Peru, they take a boat through the jungle toward their destination. They stop so Justine and Lars can use the bathroom. Lars almost gets his penis bitten by a tarantula and he runs back to the boat.When the group finds the bulldozers, they set off an explosive to stop their acts. As Alejandro recording the militia in their act against the jungle, one of the men holds Justine at gunpoint. Alejandro gets it on video to show off to the internet what kind of actions these people are willing to take against others, all while Justine cries. The man takes the gun away, and he and his men arrest the group.The group is being sent home in their plane. They celebrate their victory while Justine is traumatized from the incident and angry that the others were ready to let her get shot for their cause. Jonah announces that their video has been blowing up all over social media. All of a sudden, the plane's engine blows out, causing the pilots to lose control and head for a crash landing. The plane comes apart, sending at least two other people flying out. The plane crashes, killing both pilots. The man that flew out got impaled and the woman that fell out landed in a tree, badly injured and nearly dying. The rest of the group tries to move somewhere safe until they see some of the villagers in the forest. Kara asks them for help, but she gets an arrow in her neck. The others make a run for it, but they get hit by tranquilizing darts by unseen natives. Alejandro tries to remove the arrow out of Kara's neck, only for her to get another one in her head.When the group wakes up, they are being taken across the river by a Cannibal Headhunter, to the village where the rest of the tribe resides. They're all put in wooden cages, except for Jonah. He gets fed some kind of liquid before being laid down and having his limbs held down by some villagers. The Village Elder (Antonieta Pari) walks over to Jonah and holds a spike over his face. She digs the spike into his right eye and gouges it out before eating it in front of the villagers and Jonah's friends. The Elder proceeds to take his other eye, his tongue, and then has Jonah's limbs hacked off before he is finally decapitated. The others are horrified and cover their eyes.Jonah's remains are later cooked and soon eaten by the rest of the villagers. Alejandro determines that the villagers think they are the enemy. Lars mentions he can smell Jonah being cooked, making Amy sick. She first throws up and then has a massive bowel movement in the cage, which makes the others sick while the village children laugh and mock Amy.Justine tries to appease one of the children by playing her flute necklace that belonged to her mother. The child likes the music, but the Cannibal Headhunter and other native warriors arrive and pull Justine, Amy, and Samantha out of the cages. They take the ladies' panties off and the Elder takes a spike similar to what she used on Jonah. She puts it up Amy and Samantha's vaginas, then up Justine's. The Elder breaks Justine's hymen, proving to the tribe that she is a virgin. They take Justine into a hut and cover her in some kind of white powder before returning her to the cage.The next day, Alejandro mentions that the whole trip was just a PR stunt and that he doesn't actually give a shit about the tribe or the cause. He makes a crude comment on how it's good that Jonah was eaten first since he'd feed the tribe for a week, angering Daniel and Justine.Any attempt at escaping the cages leads to the group getting shot with darts by the watchers. They create a distraction that allows Samantha to climb out and look for help. Hours later, the villagers bring the group bowls with liquid and meat scraps. Amy drinks from the bowl and sea a bio-hazard symbol, which she recognizes as one of Samantha's tattoos. Then she sees the children wearing patches of flesh with the rest of Samantha's tattoos. Amy then smashes the bowl and slits her throat with a jagged piece.Knowing the villagers will get Amy next, Lars and Daniel stuff a bag of weed down her throat. the village Headhunter enters the cage and hacks Amy's corpse to pieces. After she is cooked and consumed, the villagers all get stoned. This allows Justine and Daniel to escape from their cage. Lars tries to follow but the cynical Alejandro gets him with a dart so he doesn't die alone.When Lars awakens, he sees two villagers sitting over him with the giggles. He tries to appease them with silly hand gestures until they start to get the munchies. One villager bites into Lars's arm, but he shoves him away and runs for it. Unfortunately, a large group of villagers attacks him and eats him alive.Justine and Daniel manage to get to a river and find some wreckage of the plane. Justine falls into the water and gets swept downriver. When Justine grabs a rock to hold onto, Daniel manages to rescue her by extending a tree branch and brings her ashore. That evening, they follow the trail of wreckage and finally arrive at the crash site of their plane. They find their GPS, but the battery's dead. They then hear a ringtone coming from the pocket of Kara, whose corpse is hung up alongside the other dead activists. Justine gets Kara's phone out of her pocket, but the villagers show up and dart her and Daniel.Justine awakens the next morning back in the village to find the medicine woman covering her nude body in white powder and paint. She is trying to sew Justine's vagina shut as part of a customary ritual. Daniel is tied up to a pole and covered from head to toe in a green mold by the village Headhunter. A colony of big ants start climbing up his body and biting into him. Before anything else happens to Justine, a child runs and brings the villagers the severed head of a man wearing a hard hat. The other villagers run out to see what other remains are available for consumption. The child that Justine played the flute necklace for shows up and unties Justine's hands. She unties her feet before the medicine woman returns. When she gets a good opportunity, she blows a special powder into the medicine woman's face and rips the bone out of her nose, allowing her to run. She tries to get Daniel, but he's in so much pain that he prefers to die. The child blows the powder in Daniel's face to make him pass out before he cuts Daniel's throat.The child leads Justine deep into the forest to escape. Alejandro begs Justine to save him, but she leaves him to the villagers. She lets the child keep the flute necklace and thanks him for helping her. Justine then runs and finds the militia shooting and killing the villagers. Justine finds the village Headhunter laying in the grass after being shot. With the local mercenaries approaching, Justine holds her hands up and states that she's American. She takes out Kara's phone and pretends to record the mercs in their acts before smashing the phone. The leader orders his men to take Justine away. She is boarded on a chopper to fly home, where she sees the bodies of the villagers sprawled everywhere and the soldiers burning the huts.Upon returning home, Justine testifies as the sole survivor from the crash. She denies witnessing any cannibalism.Justine then dreams that Alejandro made it home, and that she has monster teeth that she uses to rip out his throat. When she wakes up, she looks out her window and sees activists outside protesting for Alejandro to be returned home.During the closing credits, we hear a phone call between Justine and a woman claiming to be Alejandro's sister. She mentions seeing a surveillance photo (which we see) of Alejandro still in the jungle. His sister tells Justine that they need to talk.

Tags: violence, murder

Review:
The Green Inferno is a standard Eli Roth fare - gore galore, cannibalism, and occasional humor - set in the Amazon rainforest.
The choice of protagonists points to the change immediately in that it centres on a group of eco aware students who travel into the middle of the Amazonian rain-forest to stage a viral protest against some environment destroying workers, needless to say things take a bad turn and they wind up captive by a tribe of cannibals.
If you're not a fan of his films already, this won't win you over, but if you his brutal, tongue-in-cheek horror, The Green Inferno is a perfectly serviceable gore-fest.
Like Roth's previous films, The Green Inferno takes its time before unleashing hell on the victims.
Roth's 2015 resurrection of this controversial horror sub-genre draws most directly from 1980's "Cannibal Holocaust", a movie so realistic that director Ruggero Deodato was arrested and put on trial for the murder of some of the actors in the film.
(Deodato was only exonerated after he gathered all of his actors together for a TV show appearance and then demonstrated in court the special effects used to create the actors' "deaths".) That movie's working title was "The Green Inferno", a title which was eventually applied to the most gruesome scenes in "Cannibal Holocaust", specifically, the film within the film that purports to show footage from a missing documentary film crew.
Blumhouse Productions stepped in and the company's multi-platform releasing arm, BH Tilt, released "The Green Inferno" on September 25, 2015.After a brief scene of bulldozers flattening a rain forest in the Amazon, the narrative of Roth's cannibal film starts innocuously on the streets of New York City.
There's much less nudity than in previous Eli Roth movies and the gore, as disturbing as it is, could have been a lot more graphic, given what's happening on screen.
The story's solid, the acting's fairly decent for this genre and the film works as a horror movie, a thriller, a political commentary and there's even some dark comedy.
Can't Match the Films It Tries to Pay Homage To. The Green Inferno (2013) ** 1/2 (out of 4)A group of college students decide to head to South America where they're going to protest some developers who are damaging the rain forest and threatening a tribe that has lived there for thousands of years.
Their plan doesn't quite work when their plane crashes in the jungle and soon the survivors have the unlucky fate of being served up for dinner.Eli Roth's homage to the Italian cannibal movies of the 70s and early 80s is a rather mixed bag.
There's an incredibly awful jump scare towards the end, which will have you rolling your eyes.THE GREEN INFERNO is a decent movie but at the same time it doesn't quite live up to all the hype that people have created for it the past couple years..
The Green Inferno is another one of Eli Roth's torture porn films, except this movie looks on cannibalism, which is meant to pay homage to one of the most controversial films of all time, Cannibal Holocaust.
It could have been just a straightforward exploitation film.The movie has a pretty long opening exposition, concerning a young woman who was invited by a group of activists who wanted to save the Amazon rainforest by orchestrating a scandal to the loggers for online awareness.
"The Green Inferno" is an unoriginal and stupid film of cannibals by Eli Roth.
Well, actually it isn't a typically crap contemporary horror movie-its far worse than anything I have ever seen which maybe defines a typical trajectory for the type director Eli Roth is.
The Green Inferno (2013) directed by Eli Roth is a solid homage to the old Italian cannibal films of the 1970's and the 1980's.
the cannibal sub genre isn't exactly known for its amazing plot structure or character development, it's mostly known for its shock value, beautiful locations, suspense and good gore effects.
The Green Inferno doesn't live up to the excellence of say, Cannibal Holocaust, but it does do a great job of finding it's place within the sub genre as a good film that achieves mostly everything it set out to achieve.
to conclude my review ill just say that The Green Inferno (13) directed by Eli Roth is a great cannibal flick, but isn't top notch by any means.
OK, now I had no idea this movie was 'anticipated', nor did I ever see Cannibal Holocaust (although I saw fragments), so I guess this is as fair of a review as any - although I do like Eli Roth and try to see most of his work, finding some good and some bad - so I'm pretty open either way.
Unfortunately, however, it does remain an Eli Roth film and he continues to make annoying mistakes over and over again I'm referring to an overlong first half hour in which practically nothing happens except for a lot of blah blah (although it's not as bad as in "Hostel"), the use of infantile toilet humor (the tarantula sequence or the ridiculous diarrhea moment) and downright idiotic stuff (like getting an entire cannibal tribe stoned by hiding a little bag of weed in a corpse about to be cooked).
It was cool to see a cannibal movie in cinemas, a throwback to a genre which didn't last long, and hasn't had a notable entry in decades- and still hasn't, because that novelty is the film's only attraction.This is all formulaic and fairly predictable: a group of (mostly irritating and unlikeable) people end up stranded in the Amazon rainforest, first attacked by jungle natives, then held captive for an extended period of time, tortured, escàpe, blah, blah, blah.Gore fans and Eli Roth fans may get into this a bit more, but I found my attention wandering, when I wasn't repulsed by the gore, or annoyed by some of the obnoxious characters, and the poor cinematography in the Chilean and Peruvian locales.
Please if you enjoy the saw films and like to see people get cut up then go ahead and watch it it may become you new favorite movie.
There is a message in the movie, but it's feels like more an ironic slap to the face for American society than any thing else.One of the masters of the Torture porn movement, Eli Roth uses the Green Inferno to bring back a genre most of the mainstream public my not be aware exist and makes it art by taking out most of the exploitation elements and replaces it with a view on environmental rights.A group of white kids(Actually, they are Spanish kids with thick accents) head to the rain Forrest to radically stop bulldozers from tearing it down, only to get captured by a native tribe that seems to love white meat.Best part of this semi-horror film was watching the natives eat human flesh like it's no different from a pig(and you'll notice the village is littered with pigs).
It was an ensemble of college kids I could not wait to see killed.If you like cannibal films at all you should check out the Green Inferno, it ups the whole genre thanks to the use of modern day special effects.At the same time if you ever wanted to punch an obnoxious hipster in his face than you should use this movie as therapy..
Eli Roth is at it again with all the blood, gore, and cheesy horror tropes you've come to expect, but this time with an anti-activist message wrapped up within.Right out of the gate let me answer the question; no this is not a good movie.
Eli Roth's passion for this film shines through so much that I can't help but think every detail, bad acting and all, was all designed that way.
It seems smart at first but a little on the nose in my opinion.So overall I wouldn't recommend The Green Inferno to the average movie-goer but for those die hard Eli Roth and horror fans, you'll certainly find something to love..
Eli Roth's The Green Inferno has premiered at several film festivals over the past two years before finally getting a wide release in the United States.
Possibly I was very young when I watched both Eli Roth-directed Hostel films because, honestly, I found both very nice horror pieces...
Roth is forced to re-shoot the ending of the film (possibly why release was delayed and delayed), so that now when the girl escapes torment, torture, genital mutilation, dismemberment, and cannibalism, she tells everyone back home that she was actually rescued and well treated by the tribe.
College girl Justine (Lorenza Izzo) joins a group of obnoxious college eco-warriors on a trip to the Amazon to protest the development of the rain-forest; after their plane crashes in the jungle, the young activists find themselves captured by a tribe of savage cannibals who mistakenly hold them responsible for the destruction of their surroundings.Eli Roth continues his quest to be Hollywood's most 'hardcore' horror director, but once again fails big time.
With The Green Inferno, contemporary mainstream horror's biggest hack tackles the jungle cannibal genre, which gained much notoriety in the '70s thanks to gruelling, gory classics such as Cannibal Holocaust, Jungle Holocaust and Cannibal Ferox.As expected, the film delivers lots of gruesome gore (dismemberment, eye-gouging and decapitation aplenty), the effects provided by the ever reliable KNB effects group, but with a diabolical script, uneven tone (Roth can't seem to decide whether his film is a parody or serious), poorly paced direction (the first half an hour is a real test of patience), and terrible performances all round, the film loses any power that it might have had to shock the viewer.4.5/10 for the gore, rounded down to 4 for the out-of-place toilet humour (the 'explosive diarrhoea' scene and the 'tarantula attack while peeing'), the cringe-worthy dialogue ('They have the munchies') and the 'friendly' native child who helps his dinner escape..
It also missed it's chance to show that kids in college boycott things they know very little about makes them seem like the dumb people in this show.I cannot guarantee that added a little more commentary in it would make it a better movie but I don't see how it can be worse.Roth delivers plenty of gore like all his films but is nothing any seasoned film-goers has not seen many times before.I truly believe with a smarter plot, perhaps more humor, and creating more of a thin line could have made this a much smarter horror movie and allow it to stand on it's own merit other than being nothing more than an update of Cannibal Holocaust.Dean.
This is a great fun movie if you like Eli Roth's brand of film making.
As a huge movie fan of all genres, I have to say well done to Eli Roth and the cast of The Green Inferno.
The Green Inferno is something special, it feels like a breath of fresh air when you see the huge number of all those supernatural horror films that come out.
The shock value was pretty much the star of Cannibal Holocaust but no one today gives the movie backlash for that, but when it happens with this movie, people get outraged because they didn't get their OSCAR worthy horror film!
I'm aware that this movie had a number of release issues, but having watched it I'm guessing it was a ploy to built interest in an otherwise dire move.It's been a strange week as I watched Knock Knock which although not as bad as this tripe, it certainly has the same incredibly bad acting, production & implausible story parts which combined make them difficult to persevere with for 90+ minutes.There was a time when you looked out for Eli Roth movies, however his recent stuff has made me check to see if he died & his electrician son has taken over & tried his hand at directing.It is truly awful from start to finish.
After waiting for more than a year, and absolutely loving Eli Roth's first movie, and liking his next two, I really thought this would be something good.
There's only one really gory scene in the whole thing, surprising for Eli Roth, and even more surprising is that Roth has said the movie wasn't cut for the R rating meaning there's probably not an extended cut forthcoming.The Green Inferno moves fast enough to rank watchable status, and the plane crash is pretty impressive, but that's all that really recommends this movie.
Going in I knew Eli Roth had a gore fetish, so I expected some harsh killing, but the film was even more gory than I expected, and was a little hard to watch.
Beware that the film isn't really a horror movie in the sense that it's scary, it's more like Saw with cannibals.
I felt compelled to write about this film because I am a huge fan and supporter of the horror genre (yes the 2 are different) I saw huge potential for Eli Roth when I first saw cabin fever, it was intense and scary and gross and then that dim wit deputy comic relief character came along.
This film had ALL the potential in the world to be a brake out horror sensation and scare the hell out of audiences but at the directors insistence we get misplaced fart jokes, an out of place masturbation scene and a juvenile teenage pot gag.I will continue to watch things with Eli Roth's name attached to it but not forever.
'THE GREEN INFERNO': Four and a Half Stars (Out of Five)The new horror flick from director Eli Roth (the man behind such popular slasher classics as 'CABIN FEVER' and 'HOSTEL').
It's also full of dark comedy (like all of Roth's films) and it's a great tribute to exploitation cannibal movies of the past.
When the group is traveling over the Amazon, their small plane crashes and plunges deep into a jungle, populated by violent, cannibalistic natives that take them hostage in their small village.A film like this can't entirely rely on the violence of the cannibals to carry itself, which is why it's nice to see Eli Roth and Guillermo Amoedo pen some characters that are equal parts amusing and satirical.
To honor her I watched the movie that I knew her from, Eli Roth's The Green Inferno.
I like Eli Roth's Hostel, and some of his idea on thriller film, but for Green Inferno, I think it was just an "OK OK".I had a great expectations on it before it really released, I had a great expectations on the gory / gross of this film too, I thought it may be more "unacceptable" gore scene than it previous film, but after watch the entire film, found that it just not as good as what audiences have expected it.The story is fine, actually the gory scene is not bad too.
The usually soldid horror director Eli Roth, turns in a fantastical cannibal movie.
The green inferno isn't super good but still i'm not that convinced that this is the worst thing Eli Roth has made..
Cannibals and zombies, ah, those good old and exciting days of gore and thrash and non-p.c.-fun.I was never much impressed by Eli Roth's movies, be it the Hostel ones or Cabin Fever.
The Green Inferno is an okay to good movie - if you know what to expect: a simple story and a lot of gore and disgust.
Eli Roth loves cannibal movies, and clearly set out to give the forgotten genre some big-budget loving care while paying homage to greats like Deodato and Lenzi.
As we come to expect from an Eli Roth movie, there is a lot of gore and a lot of exploitation.
Oddly enough I never got around to watch Eli Roth's "The Green Inferno" movie before 2017, although that I had been told that it was a rather good movie.
I had watched the late 1970 and 1980's numerous cannibal movies, so I was no stranger to the genre."The Green Inferno" starts out rather slow paced, in terms of establishing characters and plot.
Why Eli Roth opted for that ending is just beyond my comprehension, because it was a severe disappointment to an otherwise great film.All in all, "The Green Inferno" is a good movie and an entertaining one.
I don't hate Eli Roth but prefer him as an actor rather than a director (personally I only like Cabin Fever.) The Green Inferno is a failed attempt at re-capturing the camp and cheese of 60's 70's and 80's cannibal films.
Again it's enjoyable as a rental, the practical effects are great, the gore elements are all over the place, there was a bit of bad CGI but besides that the movie is OK...not great but OK, there are many ways you can screw a film like this specially in the ending for me it back fired and made little sense, over all I'd say give it a watch and see it for yourself..
There it was also about cannibalism but you really had a horror feeling while in The Green Inferno it's just about the gore.
All in all for gore fans The Green Inferno will score okay but for horror movie freaks it will be sadly not good enough..
While certain aspects of the The Green Inferno could have been better, I still left satisfied and happy as a fan of the original cannibal films of the 1970s and 1980s.Writer/Director Eli Roth brings 21st century college students to the Amazon to protest the destruction and killing of a tribe in order to exploit their land.After protesting and being put under arrest, their plane crashes into the jungle.
Eli Roth didn't disappoint on the gore in this film.
The Green Inferno was definitely not a letdown, but it wouldn't have taken much to make it a lot better.Don't expect the shock value of Cannibal Holocaust but get ready for one of the most violence films of the year.