Review of The Green Inferno (2013) by David V — 09 Mar 2016

The Green Inferno is directed and co-written by Eli Roth, and it stars Lorenza Izzo in a cannibal movie about an activist group going to the Amazon rainforest to go against a private militia from destroying the trees, they succeed, but their plane falls apart, and they get captured and have to deal with a cannibal tribe.

I honestly was looking toward to it as I don't watch cannibal horror films that much, and it was interesting that it was even in theaters. Granted I didn't watch it there and watched it when it was on DVD, but I still managed to watch it, and it was honestly an all right film.

Some of the acting is are fine, but some of the other actors are terrible in it. The best acting is actually from the tribe people who are creepy in it, but also act goofy in a intentional and funny way.

There are mostly unfunny moments in there, but there are a few funny moments that got a laugh out of me. It's less mean-spirited than I thought would be, but the mean-spiritedness is still there, and it gets irritating at times.

The make-up effects by Gregory Nicotero and Howard Berger are impressive, especially on the tribe themselves, even though the CGI can be distracting at times. I didn't find it scary, nor suspenseful, and I didn't care about the characters that much.

I wasn't bored during the film, but I wasn't invested in it as I didn't care about who I want to survive. If I wanna watch something that's related to cannibals, I'll watch the remake to We Are What We Are, and a few episodes of The Walking Dead that has that.

While The Green Inferno is an improvement over Hostel: Part 2, I wouldn't really give a recommendation as I think that this is a miss for Eli Roth's filmography.