Review of The Green Inferno (2013) by Duke_Nukem — 17 Oct 2015

"Oh no, they have the munchies!!".

After watching and enjoying the first two Hostel movies I was curious to see this movie from Eli Roth. The story in these movies seems very similar: a group of young people travel to a far country for some thrills, but end up being tortured and dying.

The special effects look realistic enough and there are some moments where you need a strong stomach to keep watching, but the humor takes away some of the darkness. Also the cinematography is colorful and during most of the movie there is a lot of light, which makes things a bit less scary. The movie doesn't have much suspense, you know what will happen and it's all about the blood and gore.

The nature has been nicely filmed, the images of the forest in Peru are beautiful. Also the tribe looks to be real, they're all covered in red paint just like the recently discovered wild tribe you read about on the internet which hasn't been in contact with modern men yet. Hope the real tribe is not cannibalistic!

The acting is descent, not special. Eli Roth's wife Lorenza Izzo looks great and she acted pretty well in this movie. The jump scare at the end of the movie, when she dreams about the leader of the team who she left behind to die, was a bit unnecessary and didn't fit with the style of the movie. Also it's a bit questionable that after all that happened to her friends, she would still defend the tribe against extinction by saying they did nothing wrong and she didn't see any proof of cannibalism.

The story was really simple and it's honestly just copying Cannibal Holocaust (1980) without adding much new. It's funny to see that the tribe treats the captured white people just as they would treat animals, it could even make us ask ourselves questions about the way we treat, slaughter and eat animals.

All in all I didn't enjoy this movie as much as I enjoyed the first two Hostel movies though. Those movies were a lot more inventive and new.