Eli Roth, he of the endless debates on torture porn, the protege of Quentin Tarantino and the guy who bashed in a Nazi’s head with a baseball bat and a mountain of chest hair as the Bear Jew in Ingloriuous Basterds, debuted a new film called The Green Inferno at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (in the Midnight Madness category, natch), and today it acquired a distributor (Open Road Films) and a release date (Septmber 5th, 2014).
The film, which stars the mix of knowns and unknowns Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Sky Ferreira and Daryl Sabara, is about a student activist collective who travel from New York City to the Amazon to save a soon-to-be-extinct tribe. When their plane crashes, they are found by the tribe, and no points for guessing what happens next in a film from the guy whose chief inspiration is Ruggero Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust.
The film was shot on location in Peru and Chile, and Roth stated that he wanted the film to feel like something from Werner Herzog or Terrence Malick. Early reviews from Toronto and AFI screenings said that while the film does rely on Roth’s goofy, sometimes stupid sense of humor and doesn’t go as far as previous “cannibals in the jungle” movies, it’s still an effective entry in the genre and one of Roth’s better films.
The film was directed, co-written, and produced by Roth, and his co-writer was Guillermo Amoedo.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
