The Green Inferno

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The Green Inferno is the third instalment in director Eli Roth’s “travel trilogy” of horror films that also includes Hostel and Hostel 2. It screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013 and was supposed to be released last year, but financial troubles forced the film to push the release date back. The film stars Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Daryl Sabara, Kirby Bliss Blanton, and Sky Ferreira.

A twisted and blood-soaked take on a digital-age phenomenon, The Green Inferno tells the story of what happens when “slacktivism”—the well-meaning social-media response to global catastrophes—turns deadly deep in a South American rainforest. Trapped in a remote tribal village, these naïve, technology-dependent students suffer unspeakable acts as the victims of chilling and soul-destroying rituals reserved for only the most threatening intruders.

Roth was surprised at how similar his idea for the film and the KONY 2012 campaign were. “Everyone in the world was tweeting about something they had learned from a YouTube video, and almost shaming other people into re-tweeting it, as if you were uncaring about Ugandan child soldiers if you didn’t. Less than a month later the leader of their cause was running naked through the streets of San Diego. In the end, the KONY 2012 campaign did almost nothing to solve the problems it highlighted.”

The Green Inferno is rated R.