‘The Green Inferno’
Eli Roth is nobody’s idea of a world class director, but there’s no denying his career has taken an unexpectedly interesting turn since smartly abandoning his “torture porn” phase. In the Washington Post, Sonny Bunch described Roth’s recent output as “Dad horror,” which is a smart and apt observation. Roth’s 2014 film The Green Inferno is, on its surface, a movie about a savage band of cannibals who reside deep in the jungles of South America, but what elevates it from a pure gross-out fest into something more ambitious is the way it explores how certain political factions prey on the youthful naiveté of college students desperate to appear woke.