Review of The Green Inferno (2013) by Schmoopy — 29 Oct 2015

Hilarious movie. Because it's funny? No, because it's so uneven and badly made that you'll keep wondering what the hell they were thinking. Here's an attempt. Eli Roth clearly loves horror movies and has watched many of them.

He however doesn't seem to have to skill to either bring a homage or a twist to the horror/gore tropes he seems so infatuated with. Having a gruesome ritual execution and then following it with a farty poop joke (including cartoon noises) requires a lot of skill to make it work.

Here, it doesn't, it just comes off as clunky. As with all Roth movies, many characters a cynical, and they certainly are all stupid. Some moments are pretty creative, but usually ruined by the following silly slapstick.

The low quality of pretty much every aspect doesn't result in a bad movie. Most of the time you'll be looking at the screen thinking either "wait, what?" or "eew", which is better than many other recent gore/horror movies.