What can I say about Eli Roth? While I dug Cabin Fever (I liked Cabin Fever 2 a lot better for some reason), Hostel was just an excuse to gore up the place. Hostel 2 was an improvement, but Eli Roth seems to have really hit his stride as a producer. News, however, has been slowly leaking out about his newest directorial effort THE GREEN INFERNO, which looks to be his take on the classic Italian cannibal flicks of the 70’s and early 80’s. Drawing from such notorious films as Cannibal Holocaust, Cannibal Ferox (aka Make Them Die Slowly – also an early White Zombie album title) and others. One thing that can be said about Eli Roth, however, is that the man definitely loves the red red groovy and that (and his producing prowess) is one thing he has going for him.

So what does that mean? Eli Roth is nothing if not a product of his influences. Cabin Fever was full of obvious references to The Evil Dead, The Hills Have Eyes, etc. and if he’s been watching the cannibal classics he’s had to have picked up on one defining connection between all of them: grue, blood, and gore galore. In addition to the photo that’s been released from Roth about the film, the MPAA has officially labeled the film “Aberrant.”

More accurately, the MPAA has given the film an official rating: “Rated R for aberrant violence and torture, grisly disturbing images, brief graphic nudity, sexual content, language and some drug use.”

The dictionary defines Aberrant as 1: straying from the right or normal way & 2: deviating from the usual or natural type – atypical.

Wicked. If anything, this just makes me more excited for the film. It’s been a while since we’ve had a classic jungle cannibal film. Another interesting factoid (if memory serves): the documentary the “filmmakers” in Cannibal Holocaust were making was titled The Green Inferno.

Synopsis:

The plot see student activists from comfy NYC travel to the remote forests of Peru to stage a protest but instead they discover a tribe of not-that-friendly cannibals. But this wasn’t done in studios – Roth and co. saw places even David Attenborough would think twice about visiting. The film stars Lorenza Izzo (Aftershock), Ariel Levy(Aftershock), Daryl Sabara (Spy Kids), and Kirby Bliss Blanton (Project X) and is scheduled for a 2014 release.

In an interview with Empire Magazine, Roth had this to say about the film: