"The Green Inferno" is, in that sense, not so much a knock against Occupy Wall-Street-style slacktivists (though it is also that) so much as it's an accomplished, mean-spirited horror film about a heroine who is too young to understand the motives for her do-gooder idealism.įrom the start, Justine is asked-by her even-tempered diplomat father Charles ( Richard Burgi) and bitchy romantic rival Kara ( Ignacia Allamand)-why she's joining a mission to stop the destruction of an indigenous Peruvian tribe's ancestral home. Because Roth is an existential misanthrope, Justine faces the worst nightmare of any privileged white protagonist with unexamined racism in their hearts: an inhuman tribe of flesh-eating cannibals who behead, gouge, impale, drug and devour any outsiders unfortunate enough to cross their paths. Roth's homage to notorious Italian films like "Cannibal Holocaust" is a nasty piece of work with a mean spirit that is tempered by believable sympathy with naive protagonist Justine ( Lorenza Izzo), a college freshman who travels to Peru with a student activist group after she becomes traumatized by a college lecture on female genital mutilation.
Controversial filmmaker Eli Roth ("Hostel," " Cabin Fever") has finally made a film with squirm-inducing skills that match its provocative payload.
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