

They depart by plane, but the plane's engine explodes and it crashes in the jungle, killing several people, including Carlos.Īs the survivors search for a GPS phone, Kara hears something nearby. The group is arrested, but Carlos bribes the police to release them. A private militia hired by the company arrives, and when Justine is nearly killed by an officer, the protest goes viral. They journey by boat to the construction site and begin their protest, chaining themselves to bulldozers while filming the land clearing. The operation is funded by Carlos, a drug dealer who meets the group in Peru. Justine suggests she could bring attention to the issue through her father, a United Nations attorney. The group plans a trip to the Amazon rainforest to stop a petrochemical company from forest clearing and displacing native tribes by filming them and streaming footage to raise awareness. The film earned $12.9 million on a budget of $5 million, and received negative reviews from critics.Ĭollege freshman Justine becomes interested in a student social activism group led by Alejandro and his girlfriend Kara. The Green Inferno premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2013, and was theatrically released on September 25, 2015, by High Top Releasing and BH Tilt. The movie was inspired by and serves as an homage to Italian cannibal films of the late 1970s and early '80s " cannibal boom", particularly Cannibal Holocaust (1980), which features a film-within-a-film titled The Green Inferno. The film follows a young woman who joins an activist group that go on an overseas trip, where they eventually run into a cannibalistic tribe. It stars Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Daryl Sabara, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Sky Ferreira, Magda Apanowicz, Nicolás Martinez, Aaron Burns, Ignacia Allamand, Ramón Llao, and Richard Burgi.

The Green Inferno is a 2013 cannibal horror film directed by Eli Roth, with a screenplay by Roth and Guillermo Amoedo, from a story by Roth.
