The Green Inferno -2013- May 2026

: The survivors are captured by the very tribe they were trying to protect. Mistaking the activists for the developers destroying their home, the tribe takes them hostage to be ritually tortured and eaten. amazonwatch.org Thematic Elements

faced immediate turbulence. After its successful premiere at TIFF in 2013, Roth sold the distribution rights to Open Road Films. But the release date was pushed back repeatedly—from 2014 to September 2015. The Green Inferno -2013-

In a cruel twist of irony, their plane crash-lands in the jungle, and the survivors are captured by the very tribe they were trying to save. What follows is a brutal game of survival where the "civilized" world meets a society with very different culinary habits. A Homage to Horror History The Green Inferno EN – FEFFS : The survivors are captured by the very

A savage, problematic, and undeniably effective piece of grindhouse horror. Not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach. After its successful premiere at TIFF in 2013,

Roth punishes this hubris with merciless irony. The activists, who speak of “decolonizing” and protecting Indigenous culture, are horrified to discover that culture includes ritual dismemberment. Their attempts at communication fail spectacularly. When Justine tries to explain that they are “friends,” the tribe’s response is to slice her companion open. The film’s most savage joke is that the tribe has no concept of the activists’ moral framework; they see the outsiders not as saviors or even enemies, but simply as food. This reduction of modern political identity to pure protein is Roth’s bluntest instrument. The activists’ sophisticated debates about privilege and intersectionality dissolve into primal screams as they watch their own limbs being roasted.