Their newest recruit is Justine (Lorenza Izzo), a virginal college freshman whose overbearing father (Richard Burgi) works for the United Nations.Įmboldened by the enthusiasm and heroic facial hair of their leader Alejandro (Ariel Levy), the would-be environmentalists chain themselves to bull dozers and stare down armed militiamen while recording everything on their iPhones. This time his victims are a group of student activists who travel to Peru to protest the displacement of native tribes by encroaching construction companies. It’s been six years since Roth’s last movie, but he hasn’t lost his willingness to adhere to the time-honored formula of sending pretty young people to exotic locales that end up doubling as human slaughterhouses.
The gorehound-friendly references also fly thick and fast it’s as if Roth and co-screenwriter Guillermo Amoedo crammed Umberto Lenzi’s entire back catalogue into a blender with both versions of The Hills Have Eyes and Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto and set the dial to "Liquefy." The result, The Green Inferno, is an eco-horror freak-out, slightly elevated by a great deal of self-aware humor and inventive, gut-wrenching violence.
After a career spent ankle-deep in severed heads and simulated viscera, it was only a matter of time before the erstwhile Bear Jew attempted a honest-to-goodness homage. Hostel director Eli Roth has a well-known affinity for the cannibal sub-genre, specifically Cannibal Holocaust, Ruggerro Deodato’s infamous 1980 faux-documentary about a team of student filmmakers who run afoul of a tribe of murderous headhunters in the depths of the Amazon rainforest. The film that once shocked the world was apparently greeted as an uproarious comedy, enticing dozens of villagers to immediately sign on to Roth’s version. During the post-screening Q&A at AFI Fest, Roth told us that most of the natives had never seen a movie before, so he and his crew bought them a TV and hosted a village-wide screening of Cannibal Holocaust.
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