The director filmed his cannibal horror The Green Inferno in the depths of the Amazonian rainforest. But is he exploiting the tribe who star in it?reliable horror should provoke and disturb and shock,” says Eli Roth. “If everybody approves of it and everyone thinks it’s just lovely and wonderful, then I haven’t really made a horror movie.”By his own criteria, or The Green Inferno is definitely a horror movie. It’s a narrative of American students crash-landing in the back yard of the Amazon tribe they were trying to help,where they are greeted less as saviours than as a free tasting menu. As you would expect from the doyen of “torture porn”, Roth’s film dishes out an appetite-challenging onslaught of mutilation and evisceration. But depicting indigenous people as savage cannibals has earned the movie a whole unique kind of disapproval.
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Source: theguardian.com