Justine says she wants to help, but is she there because she believes in the cause, because she wants to spite her daddy, because every entitled kid needs to go on a middle class backpacking adventure, or because she wants the guy? Whatever her reason, off she goes. He wants to go to South America to protest deforestation. The film begins with a couple of college friends doing a bit of Tarantino riffing – one of them – Justine – becomes interested in Social Activism thanks to a charismatic speaker. The Green Inferno is a film you’ll have forgotten about in a week. You have to compare it with Cannibal Holocaust – that movie is truly sickening and while it also has laughs, it’s a film which will traumatize, scare, and scar. I won’t say it’s frightening because I honestly believe this is a comedy at heart – an exercise in ‘lets point and laugh at these fools as they get picked off’ rather than something which makes me genuinely terrified at the predicament. My problems are that it’s a little flat, there is again this immature need to insert comedy into it, and it really isn’t violent or bloody. Performance wise – no standouts or disasters. The plot for me is neither here nor there – basically a greatest hits of films Roth has worked on or admired. The movie gets a lot right – it looks extraordinary and the gore and make-up are all wonderful to look at. So, that was bad, good, bad – surely that meant I would enjoy The Green Inferno… right? I loved Hostel and while I enjoyed its sequel, it again sadly descended into farce for no reason. I wasn’t a fan of Cabin Fever – great idea but his handling of humour is, well, shite. I’ve always had a hit and miss relationship with Eli Roth, and indeed with most of the new breed of horror directors. Roth had not made a movie since 2007’s passable Hostel 2 that’s not to say he had not been busy – he had been writing, acting, and producing in the time between too. This mainstream return to this rarely spoken of sub-genre also heralded the return of infant terrible Eli Roth. You know what the world needs? More cannibal movies.
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