With The Green Inferno—the first of two new Eli Roth movies that will be released in the next two weeks—Eli Roth attempts the virtual impossible: making a contemporary cannibal film. The Green Inferno is a throwback to the small but notorious cannibal subgenre of Italian horror movies that were made mostly during the late ’70s and early ’80s. The movies were characterized by extreme gore,on-screen mutilation of live animals, sexual violence, or depictions of jungle-dwelling natives as man-eating savages. They are intentionally revolting and,at best, effective assaults on the senses. Read more...
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