At its core, The Green Inferno is a love letter to the infamous "cannibal boom" of Italian exploitation cinema. The film's very title is a direct reference to the film-within-a-film from Ruggero Deodato's masterpiece, Cannibal Holocaust , which was also called The Green Inferno . Roth's film consciously reproduces the structure, tropes, and visual language of these 1970s and 80s films, including the use of real indigenous people as actors and the focus on shocking, "authentic" violence. For die-hard fans of this niche subgenre, Roth's effort was seen as a reverent and successful tribute that brought a forgotten style of horror back into the mainstream.
The in the Peruvian jungle.
At its core, The Green Inferno is a love letter to the infamous "cannibal boom" of Italian exploitation cinema. The film's very title is a direct reference to the film-within-a-film from Ruggero Deodato's masterpiece, Cannibal Holocaust , which was also called The Green Inferno . Roth's film consciously reproduces the structure, tropes, and visual language of these 1970s and 80s films, including the use of real indigenous people as actors and the focus on shocking, "authentic" violence. For die-hard fans of this niche subgenre, Roth's effort was seen as a reverent and successful tribute that brought a forgotten style of horror back into the mainstream.
The in the Peruvian jungle.