A group of student activists travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest. However, once they arrive in this vast green landscape, they soon discover that they are not alone… and that no good deed goes unpunished.
Whatever criticism you want to throw at Roth, at least the director stays true to his singular, repulsive vision: His cannibals-gone-wild tale is a work of unrelenting and squishy terror.
– Barry Hertz,
Globe and Mail,
25 Sep 2015
fresh:
The point is to feel something visceral, extreme. Eli Roth is extremely extreme. My head is off to him.
– David Edelstein,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
25 Sep 2015
rotten:
The Green Inferno is less a riff on spaghetti splatter flicks like Cannibal Holocaust than a desperate-to-shock pastiche of guts and gore served with a wink to audiences with strong stomachs. You know who you are.
– Chris Nashawaty,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Sep 2015
rotten:
A project that boasts all the appeal (and aroma) of a carcass rotting in the rainforest.
– Geoff Berkshire,
Variety,
27 Sep 2015
rotten:
"The Green Inferno" is a breezy college comedy. Until it's not. Then it's really, really not.