Why It's Going To Rock: A Real Guilty Pleasure Eli Roth gets a bad wrap, despite the fact that he's never done anything but make hilariously self-aware and surprisingly intelligent horror pastiches - most of which are downright giddy in their willingness to be stupid, mindless fun. His latest effort, The Green Inferno, looks to be heading into similar territories, as a group of self-entitled twentysomethings head into the rain forest on a mission of peace and end up getting eaten by cannibals. From what we've glimpsed so far, then, The Green Inferno is clearly working as a homage to classic exploitation movies such as Cannibal Holocaust, and is sure to gross out and cause controversy in the same ways that Eli Roth movies usually do. Still, it doesn't mean that this won't be some of the most fun you'll have at the cinema this year - if your idea of "fun" is watching entitled brats with their limbs being torn off and digested, that is. Yum.
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.
