The very fact that the film centres on a group of students makes this film surely the first cannibal film that doubles up as a teen movie! It's an awkward combination with a pretty ropey script and – the main girl played by Lorenzo Izzo aside - unlikable characters. The choice of protagonists points to the change immediately in that it centres on a group of eco aware students who travel into the middle of the Amazonian rain-forest to stage a viral protest against some environment destroying workers, needless to say things take a bad turn and they wind up captive by a tribe of cannibals.

This approach means that the tone overall fluctuates wildly but it definitely dissipates the overall threat posed by the cannibals. Where Holocaust was relentlessly confrontational, Roth's film is often quite jokey. The Green Inferno takes a decidedly different approach to its material and it's not always a successful one. Its docudrama, found footage style mixed with a proper mean-spiritedness made it a pretty gruelling film but very well made. Cannibal Holocaust (1980) is the one film that Roth has mentioned in particular as an influence and for this viewer it is easily one of the most disturbing films I have ever seen. Their combination of graphic violence, sexual assault and real animal killing made them real bad boys of the horror genre. Most of the films got banned here in the UK some still remain so to this day in their uncut forms. The cannibal film was a particularly notorious sub-genre. The basic idea here is to bring back a type of movie that only really existed briefly over thirty years ago. The question would have to be has he came back in a good way? Well, despite the undoubted promise of the central idea, it's a film that is kind of as frustrating as most of his other work. The Green Inferno is his first feature film as director since Hostel: Part II from way back in 2007! It's a long time to be out of the game. On the flip side I would have to say that I have found his output to be somewhat patchy and uneven. I like Eli Roth for this reason and I do find him a somewhat engaging, funny and entertaining guy. These days you don't really get many directors unashamedly dedicated to the horror genre like you did in years gone by. Eli Roth is a director whose fame certainly goes before him.

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