The Green Inferno -2013- New! Now

Director Eli Roth, who had made his name with the "Hostel" franchise, recruited a cast composed largely of emerging actors, many of whom had worked with Roth previously.

If you're planning to watch The Green Inferno, be prepared for: The Green Inferno -2013-

The Green Inferno is not a comfortable film, nor is it an unassailable masterpiece. Its characters are often too stupid to be tragic, its pacing sags between set pieces, and its reliance on shock value can feel numbing. However, to dismiss it as mere gore is to miss its pointed, if clumsy, thesis. In an era of hashtag activism and armchair revolution, Roth suggests that the greatest horror is not the cannibal on the riverbank, but the college student who flies across the world to save him, having never once considered that he might not want—or need—to be saved. The film’s true green inferno is not the jungle; it is the consuming fire of Western narcissism, burning itself alive on the altar of its own good intentions. For viewers with the stomach for it, Roth’s film offers a potent, ugly antidote to the fantasy that compassion without comprehension is anything but a recipe. Director Eli Roth, who had made his name