The Green Inferno (film)

The Green Inferno
A crowd of indigenous cannibals reach their arms to a screaming woman.
Theatrical release poster
Directed byEli Roth
Screenplay by
Story byEli Roth
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyAntonio Quercia
Edited byErnesto Díaz
Music byManuel Riveiro
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • September 8, 2013 (2013-09-08) (TIFF)
  • September 25, 2015 (2015-09-25) (United States)
Running time
100 minutes[1]
Countries
  • Chile
  • United Kingdom
  • United States[2]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$5 million[3]
Box office$12.9 million[4]

The Green Inferno is a 2013 cannibal horror film directed by Eli Roth, with a screenplay by Roth and Guillermo Amoedo. 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 film follows a young woman who joins an activist group that goes on an overseas trip, where they eventually run into a cannibalistic tribe.

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 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, BH Tilt, and Universal Pictures. The film received mostly negative reviews from critics but was a moderate commercial success, grossing $12.9 million on a budget of $5 million.

  1. ^ a b "THE GREEN INFERNO (18)". British Board of Film Classification. June 13, 2014. Retrieved August 29, 2014.
  2. ^ "The Green Inferno (2015)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on January 7, 2019.
  3. ^ "The Green Inferno". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved November 2, 2024.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference BOM was invoked but never defined (see the help page).