The wait is finally over - Eli Roth's much anticipated and delayed cannibal film The Green Inferno is finally out and was it worth the wait? Yeah I think so.
Green Inferno has been whispered about since it's planned release in 2013 and since then we've seen stills and trailers but not much about the actual film, other than knowing it's a cannibal flick.
This is a modern take and/or throwback to the awesome Cannibal Holocaust and perhaps a one-up on it's loose remake Welcome To The Jungle.
A group of activists travel to Peru to protest the bulldozing of a piece of rain forest that is home to a primitive tribe. Their protest goes to plan but on their way home they fall prey to a plane crash which lands them in the middle of the afore mentioned tribes people, who just happen to not be that appreciative of the support, but are happy for the nice juicy human flesh.
There are the expected fair shares of gruesome body hacking, slashing and devouring but The Green Inferno is not a movie that relies purely on shock tactics (although we do get the obligatory "body impaled on a stick") - we have a plot, we have a cast with character and we have some brutal twists and turns.
Green Inferno is hands down one of the best out there in this little-covered genre, extra points for making it a straight forward movie instead of falling prey to what could have easily been another "found footage" romp.
Worth the wait? Yes. Worth the hype? Yes.
9/10 Masks
"You're sick! I got to the bit where they eat the first guy, felt nauseous and couldn't watch any more!"
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