![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He recruits her to join the group on a trip to Peru, where they will protest the despoliation of the jungle by American corporate interests (and, not incidentally, record their daring exploit for Internet streaming via cell phones). Idealistic freshman Justine (Chilean actress Lorenza Izzo, Roth's wife) falls in with a group of self-righteous student protestors led by the charismatic Alejandro (Ariel Levy). The story begins, rather slowly, at Columbia University, in New York. ![]() The movie echoes genre classics like the 1980 Cannibal Holocaust (in which Amazonian atrocities also featured) and the 1964 2000 Maniacs (in which barbecued human was likewise on the menu). The story is gore-flick simple: college kids meet cannibals in the Amazon jungle. Director Roth, who co-wrote the script, probably wouldn't bother defending these scenes (this is the man who gave us the Hostel movies, after all), and they're so pointlessly appended to the story that they function as little more than additional daubs in the picture's blood-soaked incoherence. The demonstrations aren't graphic, but they're queasily close. The Green Inferno, Roth's first feature in eight years, begins with students gagging over FGM photos in a university lecture hall and then moves on to demonstrations of the practice in the primitive world of the movie. Female genital mutilation may be the final frontier in gore movies, and Eli Roth has now crossed it. ![]()
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