The Green Inferno

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Movie
German title The Green Inferno
Original title The Green Inferno
Country of production United States ,
Chile ,
Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2013
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Eli Roth
script Eli Roth,
Guillermo Amoedo
production Eli Roth,
Miguel Asensio ,
Molly Conners ,
Nicolás López ,
Christopher Woodrow
music Manuel Riveiro
camera Antonio Quercia
cut Ernesto Díaz Espinoza
occupation

The Green Inferno is a US-American - Canadian - Chilean splatter film from the year 2013 . Directed by Eli Roth , who wrote the script together with Guillermo Amoedo . The film pays homage to the Italian cannibal films of the late 1970s and early 1980s, such as B. Naked and mangled .

The film follows a group of environmental activists who are struggling to survive after being captured by a cannibalist tribe. The film was released in Germany as direct-to-DVD on DVD and Blu-ray, so it was not shown in German cinemas.

action

Justine, a freshman at Columbia University , finds interest in a student activist group led by Alejandro and his friend Kara. The group is planning a trip to the Amazon rainforest to stop a company from logging the rainforests and killing indigenous tribes. Their plan is to stream the deforestation work on their mobile phones, thereby shaking up the public. Justine's father is a lawyer with the United Nations, which should bring additional attention to the operation. Her roommate Kaycee thinks the action is pointless and remains in New York.

The action is funded by a drug dealer named Carlos, who is taking the group to Peru on a plane . After arriving in the Amazon rainforest , they begin their protest by chaining themselves to trees and filming the clearing work. A private militia commissioned by the logging company arrives, but cannot break the activists' chains. While the images spread on the Internet are spreading virally in social networks, Justine is almost shot by one of the militiamen. The group is arrested but released after Carlos bribes the police. Justine realizes that her death was accepted in the act and only her status as the daughter of a UN lawyer saved her from death. Shortly after takeoff, the plane crashes, killing Carlos.

Eight of the activists survived the crash (Justine, Alejandro, Kara, Jonah, Lars, Amy, Samantha and Daniel) and search for the plane's emergency transmitter. Suddenly they are attacked by young men wearing red paint on their bodies. Kara is killed and the rest of the group is stunned by arrows. They are taken to the village of the indigenous attackers on boats and locked in a bamboo cage. Shortly afterwards, Jonah is cut up by a tribal elder, beheaded and his body consumed by the rest of the village. They are shocked to realize that the tribe they were trying to protect through their action had cannibalistic traditions. Alejandro informs the rest of the group that the protection of the tribe was only an advance and was paid for by Carlos on behalf of another clearing company. Samantha tries to escape, but is stunned by an arrow and taken back to the cage.

The next morning Justine, Samantha and Amy are taken out of the cage. They are examined by one of the tribal elders, and it turns out that Justine is still a virgin, whereupon she is taken to another hut and prepared for genital mutilation . When Samantha and Amy are returned to the cage, they distract the guard with a ringing phone, and Samantha escapes and hides in a canoe.

The next day, Justine returns with a ritual painting on her body. The prisoners are given bowls of raw meat to eat. After almost finishing her meal, Amy finds a piece of skin with one of Samantha's tattoos in her bowl. When she realizes that Samantha was killed on the run and has just eaten by her friend, she smashes her bowl and kills herself by cutting her carotid artery with one of the broken pieces. Lars stuffs a bag of marijuana into Amy's throat to intoxicate the tribe when they eat it. Finally, Justine and Daniel manage to escape while they leave Alejandro in the cage because he lied to them (and Lars, who was beaten by Alejandro K. o.). When Lars wakes up, he is eaten alive by the trunk.

Justine and Daniel return to the crash site, but they are quickly captured again by the trunk. While Justine is being prepared for the circumcision ceremony, Daniel is tied to a stake, covered with a green powder, and eaten almost to death by ants. When the noises of clearing tools can be heard, the trunk pulls towards the noises in the jungle, allowing Justine to escape. The dying Daniel asks Justine to kill him, but this does not bring her to the heart. Instead, Daniel is killed by a young boy from the tribe.

Justine manages to escape, and shortly afterwards she meets a militia who, on behalf of the woodcutters, slaughter the tribesmen with submachine guns and assault rifles. With a phone she pretends to film the killing, which forces the militia to stop. Justine is brought to safety in a lumberjack helicopter. Back in New York, the disaffected Justine lies to her father and tells him that she is the only survivor of the plane crash and that the tribe was peaceful with her. The following night, Justine has a nightmare in which Alejandro returns from the jungle.

A satellite map of the jungle is shown in the credits, while a phone call can be heard between Justine and Alejandro's sister Lucia, in which she says she found her brother on a satellite image. The map then zooms in on an Alejandro who is standing in the jungle painted black.

reception

The film received mostly negative reviews. At Rotten Tomatoes , 37 percent of the 93 reviews are positive with an average rating of 4.6 / 10. There were positive reviews from René Walter from Nerdcore.de , among others , who came to the conclusion that the film was “Roth's most successful by some distance” and also “did not fall into the trap of racism, the cannibal films since their roots in the Carrying around Mondo-Cane pseudo-docs from the 1960s ”and that rarely erupted in the 1970s. Author Stephen King wrote on his Twitter account that the film was “like a glorious return to the drive-in theaters of his youth; bloody, captivating, hard to take, but you can't look away ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The Green Inferno . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2014 (PDF; test number: 146 294 V).
  2. ↑ Green Inferno (2015). Rotten Tomatoes, accessed October 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ The Green Inferno Trailer. Retrieved May 22, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Stephen King. In: Twitter account @StephenKing. September 18, 2015, accessed October 4, 2019 .