The Green Inferno (2015), R, 0 stars

AHHHH!!!! NOT MY HAIR!!! NOT MY FACE!!!

There are three different types of horror films: Intelligent horror films, stupid horror films and repulsive horror films that makes your stomach churn. This movie falls in the third category. I am not a huge horror fanatic in any sense of the word but recently there are some horror films that have been good. M. Night Shyamalan's The Visit was sort of a comeback to his minimalistic horror genre. But, his approach was intentional as it was sort of scary but funny simultaneously. This movie has a few laughs here and there but when it comes to the gruesome scenes of aberrant behavior of faces being ripped apart and eyes gouging, it seemed that the director, Eli Roth, was returning to his roots of bold and risky vision and it seemed that he was giggling and laughing behind the camera like a kid at Christmas. I can picture that aspect but I was not laughing during the scenes of torture that appalled me.

Justine (Lorena Izzo) is invited to a student activist group by Jonah (Aaron Burns) which is lead by Alejandro (Ariel Levy). His cause is for a tribe in the Peruvian jungle. Justine approaches Alejandro because of a snide comment she remarked about hunger and he forgives her. She, Alejandro, Jonah also are joined by another invited group of activists consisting of: Alejandro's girlfriend, Kara (Ignacia Allamad), Amy (Kirby Bliss Stanton), Samantha (Magda Apanowicz), Lars (Daryl Sabara) and Daniel (Nicolas Martinez). They head off to Peru by plane and take a boat through the jungle toward their destination.

The group commits a prank of explosives to stop bulldozers. One of the men holds Justine at gunpoint and Alejandro records all of the actions of what they will do and they get arrested. The group are being sent home in a plane and after a plane crash, they are trying to get into safe territory. They encounter some villagers in the forest and one gets shot and killed by an arrow. They are taken to the village as they are held in account as they watch some of the most gruesome horror they will ever witness in their lives.

He has the face that can kill you. 

Once upon a time a person who shall remain nameless persuaded me to watch a film called Cannibal Holocaust, a 1980 snuff film that The Green Inferno is inspired by, and I backed away from this person's suggestion to watch the movie after hearing the synopsis. But, a few years later, I watch that film and I thought it was one of the worst movies I have ever seen as it was a dizzying and horrifying experience as the narrative was so disorganized that an executive might've dropped the script and he said, "Aw, let's just shoot the movie like it is and grab one page we have not done yet."

I giggled at moments in which members of the student activist group are not the brightest bulbs in the movie in which they have to commit some acts and make some plans to escape from the gratuitous hell-hole. If you though No Escape was xenophobic, watch this movie. This movie persuades you not to go anywhere around the world because of the chance of you getting killed. The film does not offer the pleasure to exhilarate me in any regard because Eli Roth's M.O. was to entertain the fans by persuading us to watch the eye-gouging, flesh-eating, dismemberment and women's vaginas sharpened by stones.

What can I say to urge people not to go to this movie? Look at the trailer on YouTube. You will have the intelligence and spunk to avoid going to a screening of The Green Inferno at any junction. But, this movie is a cynical exercise of pleasing the crowd of graphic violence that got an R-rating. In all of my experience of going into the movies, this is the closest I have ever been to walking out of the theater and now thinking about it, I should have about halfway through the movie because the second half turns into an Alien rip-off of who will be left standing. Eli Roth: I know you wanted to please fans and that's all right. But, seriously, this is a sick film in regards to entertainment. Do you really want people to watch this repeatedly?

My advice is bring some sort of trash bag or purchase a popcorn bowl because all I will say is you will barf during some scenes of gratuitous agony and unjustified horror that makes me want to be lobotomized from this experience.

ZERO