The Green Inferno

Today is Ms Antonieta Pari's Birthday (May 31), and it's night over here. To honor her I watched the movie that I knew her from, Eli Roth's The Green Inferno. This movie is a tribute to classic cannibal films from the 70s and 80s, a homage to "Cannibal Holocaust." Antonieta plays a leader of a cannibal tribe, and her performance is terrifying and frightening, with her looks. She's just incredibly fearsome and amazing. I'm really looking forward to seeing more of her films. Lorenza Izzo, who is Eli's wife, was the leading actress and did an outstanding job. The rest of the cast and crew was also awesome. It has that disturbing bloody gore, with scenes that will make you go WTF. It also has comedy, with a mixture of the bizarre that is guaranteed to shock viewers. I have seen lots of bad reviews for this movie and I just don't understand why. Some people says it's gory and some says it's not gory enough. Everyone has their opinions, but for me everything was perfect and it's in its order. Eli Roth really worked hard for this feature. It's not easy making a movie like this. He trained real life villagers who had no experience in acting. Lorenza risked her life in a scene where she nearly drowns. They busted their asses for the movie, and some people just don't give them credit. I truly respect and love them 100% for this bloody, dark, good, intense, adventurous fun ride. One of the reasons I loved it is that there is no animal cruelty in it, and I salute Eli Roth for that. Eli and Lorenza prove that they are one of the best duos in the Horror World. Whether you love it or hate it, this is one of those films people will be talking about for ages. Back in 2013, my Dad was so thrilled when he heard that Eli was doing a cannibal film. He was a huge fan of Eli's films. The sad part is he passed away in June. Fast forward to 2015, and it was released in my country on September 24, my Dad's Birthday. I was like, Dad, I am gonna celebrate your Birthday by watching the movie you waited for. I watched it on the big screen and it was heavily censored, but I still enjoyed it. In January 2016 I finally got to watch it uncut for the first time on iTunes. Later I got it on DVD, and this is a movie that every horror fan out there should own. And I'm so excited that there's a sequel in the works titled "Beyond The Green Inferno," and I truly hope Antonieta Pari reprises her role as the Queen Of The Cannibal Clan!!!

First of all, I just finished this movie and it will take me a bit to take it all in, which is a great sign of a terrific horror movie. However, I am reading these other reviews and can tell you that at NO time, did I take this movie to be racist or pro-animal activist! Come on people!! You are going to PC this industry right out the window! To say this is racist ( against whom, I have NO idea) or that because no animals were harmed that it wasn't true "cannibalist horror" movie!! Put your big boy pants on and just don't watch it if violence offends you, it's called a MOVIE for a reason. Now, as for my actual review. What I have always really liked about Eli Roth's films is that they start out bright and sunny with a chance for you to get to know to the main characters which he does again with Green Inferno. It's nice to develop a character like Justine and Jonah so that when the bad stuff starts going down you actually do feel real sympathy for them, both characters were acted terrifically well, by the way. Since I am of the age when movies weren't allowed to show violence towards real animals then I have not seen Cannibal Holocaust, nor do I care to, because I don't want to see live animals tortured and killed. So, to those of us under 50, quit wondering about that other movie and trying to compare it. This is a movie made by someone who understands you don't actually have to kill something to make a movie, that is why it is again, called a MOVIE with "special effects". The scenery and cinematography are fantastic and the twist on how the college students turned up kidnapped by the same tribe they came to protect is priceless horror film making. Anyone who remembers what is like to be a college freshman can kind of understand how these kids got themselves into this situation in the first place. They were trying to fit in, trying to make a positive change in the world and then we see them ruthlessly used as pawns by a government activist who specializes in using fresh young, sensitive minds. Especially the one whose father is a lawyer for the United Nations. The real villain, just like in so many Roth films isn't so much the one who perpetrated the violence but in the "ordinary people" who stood to profit from it. Saving the rainforest still is a good cause and I know most people aren't ignorant enough to let a movie deflect them from that. Overall, it's creepy, gruesome, unsettling and has one of the best endings I've seen in a while! Make sure and watch through the credits! I say a big Bravo to Roth! And, hope for a sequel and answer to that mystery ending. And a big "grow up" for you guys that watch a movie about cannibals and get offended by violence. I think a very poiniant scene is at the end when Justine is forced to stay on her side of the river with the human cannibals or cross it and take her chances with a wild leopard, she inevitably chooses to cross and take her chances with the leopard. Can't say that I blame her! Again, good show!

good horror flick. ending was kind of stupid.

Knowing Eli Roth, I knew this movie was going to be NO cake walk. I knew there would be carnage, gore, the works. But, boy did he put it into overdrive on this one. So, the plot goes that some students go into the jungle to "save" it from being demolished, and thereby no longer being a home to the cannibals that live there. Okay. And all seems well and good until their plane crashes and the cannibals find them. Cue up the blood! I LOVE horror! Preferably a slasher flick but any horror will do, really. This was SO over the top, though. *SPOILERS* People getting their limbs chopped off and their eyeballs cut out, then the cannibals eating them ... poor girls and guys stuck in a cage and one of them having to crap herself in front of the others. At one point, they shove pot down a dead girls throat so that when the cannibals cook her, they will be "out of it" and the students, themselves, can escape. But what they don't realize is ... the cannibals get the munchies. And what do you think happens next??? OH! I was so grossed out at so many moments during this movie I wanted to look away but it was like a car crash and I couldn't (although, I'm not really one of those people that looks at car crashes). It was so disgusting and so over the top. It went BEYOND being a horror movie and was something else, entirely. With all that being said, it was still REALLY good. It was a great story line!!! But the ending, oh, the ending. Why do they do this? A horror like this doesn't' come along every day and goes and gets ruined by the ending which is so completely nonsensical. I just can't explain it. You have to watch for yourself. Which, if you're a horror fan, you should do. ... but don't eat first.

Must watch movie if you like hororor and keeps you guessing for whats next

As a fan of Eli Roth's earlier work, and being well aware of his celebrated affinity for 70's-'80's Italian-made cannibal gore-fests, I had high expectations that this movie would be completely over-the-top. It wasn't. Sure, there's a decent helping of graphic, violent scenes full of blood-and-guts at first, but then the movie just stalls. It takes nearly half of the movie before the cast is even captured by the cannibals! The expectation from Roth is that the character deaths tend to become more elaborate and gruesome as the movie progresses, but it just doesn't happen here. There's just an uneven quality to the final edit that ultimately ruins the flow of movie. The BD extras are also sparse and a disappointment: a boring view-once-and-forget production photo gallery and a cast/crew commentary by Roth, his wife Izzo and selected cast/crew. The commentary is a disjointed mess that runs the gamut from jungle heat-induced cast maladies, to how "cute" the various cannibal extras were, through all the gruesome scenes filmed but edited-out of the final cut for dramatic effect and/or artistic license. Roth reasons that the suggestion of violence versus all-out graphic gore is subtler, classier, and ultimately conveys the essence of the intended meaning without actually going there. That minimalist approach may work for more artsy and/or serious fare, but not for a Roth horror flick. An extended alternate cut would have been welcome. They could have at least included the deleted scenes as extras, but didn't. Bottom Line: Unless you're a Roth completist, I'd skip the expense of the Bluray release and rent/stream it instead.

If you can stand watching a lot of blood and horrible, then you should watch this movie. I don't watch a lot of horror films, but the storyline was very interesting and all of the actors and actresses were outstanding in their parts. It is definitely worth watching. Very realistic (and brutal).

Everything out of Hollywood has a singular ideological bent, so it was refreshing to actually see a film that challenges the elites' globalist consensus and its corresponding universalist moral assumptions. This film is truly horrifying as it portrays the inner workings of an isolated cannibal tribe through the eyes of their naive Western social justice warrior captives. The film's use of female circumcision as a vehicle for terror invites comparisons of Western values to Islam, making the film a timely commentary of Europe's invasion at the hands of Muslim rape gangs and Western feminism's blatantly hypocritical response. If you just want a scary movie, The Green Inferno definitely gets the job done. The acting, dialogue, and visuals are all top notch, and the plot zips along quickly. But also, its social commentary is refreshingly poignant and counter to the usual trite leftism oozing from every other movie. The cut I watched had an extremely ill-advised final scene where it was all a dream. I choose to pretend that scene never happened. Five stars.

This is a good movie for anyone that likes action with blood & horror mixed in.

Muy buena película, no será un clásico de culto (o tal vez si), pero cumple con su objetivo, te mantiene expectante y provoca tension. La disfrutarán sobre todo los amantes del género gore. El servicio excelente como siempre, llegó antes de lo prometido y en buenas condiciones.

da brividi

Buen producto, lo malo es que en esta versión francesa no se pueden poner los subtítulos en inglés o en español.

Un très bon film sur les cannibales, certainement très exagéré, mais après tout, ce n'est qu'un film. Trop gore pour les jeunes enfants, pour un public averti.