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The Green Inferno (2013)

The Green Inferno poster
Directed by
Eli Roth
Genre
horror film, adventure film, cannibal film, thriller film
Country
United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Runtime
1h 40m
Rated
R
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 1,603 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A young woman joins a college activist group on a trip to the Amazon rainforest. The group's plane crashes and they are taken captive by a cannibalistic tribe.

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What happens

The Green Inferno is a 2013 cannibal horror film directed by Eli Roth, with a screenplay by Roth and Guillermo Amoedo. It stars Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Daryl Sabara, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Sky Ferreira, Magda Apanowicz, Nicolás Martinez, Aaron Burns, Ignacia Allamand, Ramón Llao, and Richard Burgi. The film follows a young woman who joins an activist group that goes on an overseas trip, where they eventually run into a cannibalistic tribe. The movie was inspired by and serves as an homage to Italian cannibal films of the late 1970s and early '80s "cannibal boom", particularly Cannibal Holocaust (1980), which features a film-within-a-film titled The Green Inferno. The Green Inferno premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2013, and was theatrically released on September 25, 2015, by High Top Releasing, BH Tilt, and Universal Pictures. The film received mostly negative reviews from critics but was a moderate commercial success, grossing $12.9 million on a budget of $5 million. The film generated controversy for its depiction of indigenous peoples, with some human rights organizations criticizing the portrayal as promoting racist stereotypes of uncontacted peoples as "savage". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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