Eli Roth, best known for Cabin Fever and the Hostel franchise, conceived The Green Inferno as a direct tribute to Ruggero Deodato’s infamous 1980 film Cannibal Holocaust . In fact, "The Green Inferno" was the working title for Deodato's film during its production. Roth sought to resurrect the subgenre's raw, documentary-style dread while updating its thematic elements for a contemporary audience.
The story follows Justine (Lorenza Izzo), a naive college freshman at a New York university who becomes infatuated with Alejandro (Ariel Levy), the charismatic leader of a student activist group. Desperate to impress him and find a sense of purpose, Justine joins the group on a radical mission to Peru. Their goal is to stop a petrochemical company from bulldozing a section of the rainforest and exterminating an undocumented native tribe. The Green Inferno -2013-
The story follows Justine, a naive college freshman in New York City who joins a group of student activists led by the charismatic and manipulative Alejandro. The group travels to the remote Amazon rainforest to stage a protest against a petrochemical company that is bulldozing the jungle and displacing indigenous tribes. Their mission is a temporary success, but disaster strikes on the return journey when their plane suffers a mechanical failure and crashes deep into the wilderness. The survivors are quickly captured by the very tribe they were trying to protect—a group of cannibals who see the outsiders not as saviors, but as prey. Eli Roth, best known for Cabin Fever and