![]() 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. 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. A group of student activists travels to the Amazon to save the rain forest and soon discover that they are not alone, and that no good deed goes unpunished. 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. With Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Daryl Sabara, Kirby Bliss Blanton. ![]() Eli Roth continues his quest to be Hollywood's most 'hardcore' horror director, but once again fails big time. ![]() 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.
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