20 Horror Movies That Were Way Too Cruel

And you thought Hostel was bad.

Even by Eli Roth's grisly standards, cannibal horror film The Green Inferno is a brutal affair. It pays homage to the Italian Cannibal boom, most notably Cannibal Holocaust (one of Eli Roth's favourite horror films, go figure), and much like that film, this one leaves a horrible (ahem) aftertaste. 

The various cannibalistic death scenes are exhaustingly horrid and disgusting, with the death of Jonah (Aaron Burns), the nicest character in the movie, no less, being one of the most unpleasant horror deaths you're ever likely to see. And, as with many of the most excessive horror films, it would've worked better with a more unpleasant group of characters. These ones - a group of naïve eco-activists - were idiotic at worst. 

Furthermore, Roth gives viewers the finger by allowing the only genuine douchebag in the movie (Ariel Levy) to survive, while sole escapee Justine (Lorenza Izzo) ultimately loses all audience sympathy by telling the authorities that the tribe was friendly even though they murdered her friends and tried to mutilate her.

Alongside the gore, The Green Inferno is borderline racist in its depiction of the tribe and tastelessly throws in FGM too, further cementing this as an unspeakably ugly piece of cinema. Then again, it was paying homage to Cannibal Holocaust, which is probably the most unwatchably sadistic horror movie of all time, so maybe this was the desired effect.