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Guess who's on the menu tonight? People. Above is the trailer for the new Eli Roth film The Green Inferno, courtesy of Moviefone, a down-and-dirty horror film about a group of Americans who foolishly decided to visit Peru. Don't go to Peru, idiots. Nothing but cannibals there! This is actually a remake, of sorts, to 1988's Natura Contro, which also went by the titles The Green Inferno and Cannibal Holocaust II, because all the most awesome horror movies have multiple titles. It's directed by Antonio Climati, who only directed documentaries, though he served as a cinematographer for Mondo Cane, Goodbye Uncle Tom and Umberto Lenzi's Primal Rage. As an old-school horror fan who has seen Cannibal Holocaust a couple of times, I have never ever heard of Natura Contro, which apparently has no real connection to Cannibal Holocaust other than the marketing hook of the title. Like all...

Eli Roth has announced the full cast roster for his upcoming horror film The Green Inferno. Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy and actress/singer Sky Ferreira will star in the movie, which is being billed as a reimagining of Antonio Climati's 1988 Natura contro. Kirby Bliss Blanton, Magda Apanowicz, Aaron Burns and Daryl Sabara will also feature in the film. Roth will direct based on a screenplay (more)...

Eli Roth’s Goretorium in Las Vegas may just be the kind of gruesome, bloody year-round destination horror fans have been salivating for, and Roth himself is as giddy as a twisted school boy about it.

The director-writer-actor behind the Hostel and Cabin Fever franchises, and upcoming Netflix series Hemlock Grove, brainstormed the mock haunted hotel and casino called The Delmont, aka the Goretorium, for five years. Located across the street from the City Center and The Cosmopolitan, on the Vegas strip, already the land of dark-edged glitz and mayhem, it opens Sept. 27. Complete with techie and makeup-fueled special effects,...

Eli Roth's The Green Inferno will be a reimagining of Antonio Climati's 1988 Natura contro, it has been revealed. Constantin Film recently acquired the rights to distribute the horror movie in Germany, and broke the news in their write-up of it, Cinema Blend reports. Natura contro is an Italian film that belongs to the cannibal-horror subgenre, in which a group of aid workers survive a plan crash in the Peruvian jungle only to fall victim to flesh-eating natives. The film is also known as Cannibal (more)...

Now that filmmaker Eli Roth had his fun serving up two bloody offerings from his Hostel franchise, he's about to venture into an entirely different realm - cannibalism. Check out the latest details from his upcoming film The Green inferno. Variety is reporting that the film is inspired by Italo mondo films like Ruggero Deodato's notorious 1980 "Cannibal Holocaust" and Antonio Climati's 1988 "Natura contro" (also known as "The Green Inferno" and…...

We recently reported Hostel helmer Eli Roth would be returning to the director's chair for The Green Inferno, a horror feature he co-wrote with Guillermo Amoedo after the pair collaborated on the Chile-set disaster movie Aftershock. At that time Worldview Entertainment was keeping the film's premise top secret, refusing to even reveal its logline. However, the title alone was enough for some horror devotees to suspect Roth's inspiration, and now Variety has confirmed their suspicions. The trade reported that Constantin Film has acquired the rights to distribute Roth's Green Inferno in Germany, and in their write-up revealed the flick would indeed be a remake of sorts of Antonio Climati's 1988 Natura contro, also known as The Green Inferno or Cannibal Holocaust II. The Italian tale of terror is a lesser-known entry in the cannibal-horror subgenre, but one that is well remembered by cult fans of Italio mondo, a film movement...

We recently reported Hostel helmer Eli Roth would be returning to the director's chair for The Green Inferno, a horror feature he co-wrote with Guillermo Amoedo after the pair collaborated on the Chile-set disaster movie Aftershock. At that time Worldview Entertainment was keeping the film's premise top secret, refusing to even reveal its logline. However, the title alone was enough for some horror devotees to suspect Roth's inspiration, and now Variety has confirmed their suspicions. The trade reported that Constantin Film has acquired the rights to distribute Roth's Green Inferno in Germany, and in their write-up revealed the flick would indeed be a remake of sorts of Antonio Climati's 1988 Natura contro, also known as The Green Inferno or Cannibal Holocaust II. The Italian tale of terror is a lesser-known entry in the cannibal-horror subgenre, but one that is well remembered by cult fans of Italio mondo, a film movement...

Ah, a tasty subject indeed. Eli Roth (Hostel) announced earlier that his next film would be titled The Green Inferno, which definitely has a nice ring to it (I’m a big fan of green anything’s), and led to speculation that his next film would be a cannibal horror story. This has been confirmed by Variety, where Roth’s The Green Inferno hearkens back to “Italo mondo films like Ruggero Deodato’s notorious 1980 Cannibal Holocaust and Antonio Climati’s 1988 Natura Contro” and The Green Inferno “follows an idealistic student and a group of naive do-gooders who are captured by cannibalistic Indios after their plane crash lands in the Peruvian jungle.” Sounds about right.

According to Shock Till You Drop, filming begins in the fall in Chile and Peru, and now that we know the topic, we can shift speculation as to how far Eli Roth is wont to go with it.

Some new details have surfaced for Eli Roth's directorial follow-up to the Hostel franchise, The Green Inferno, and it sounds like we're in for a tale featuring some good old fashioned jungle cannibal induced mayhem!

According to Variety, the flick is inspired by Italian mondo films like Ruggero Deodato's notorious 1980 Cannibal Holocaust and Antonio Climati's 1988 Natura contro (also known as The Green Inferno and Cannibal Holocaust II). The Green Inferno follows an idealistic student and a group of naive do-gooders who are captured by cannibalistic Indios after their plane crash lands in the Peruvian jungle. Exclusive Media is handling international sales.

Production is set to begin in autumn in Peru and Chile. Roth co-wrote the screenplay with Aftershock co-writer Guillermo Amoedo from an original story by Roth. Roth recently directed the pilot episode of Netflix’s “Hemlock Grove.”

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Earlier this year, it was announced that Eli Roth was set to direct his first new film since Hostel: Part II in 2007. Titled The Green Inferno, the plot of the film was not released with the original announcement, but Eli Roth hinted on Twitter that the story involve cannibals. We now have official confirmation that this will be a cannibal film, along with the first plot details:

Via Variety: “[The Green Inferno is] … inspired by Italo mondo films like Ruggero Deodato’s notorious 1980 ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ and Antonio Climati’s 1988 ‘Natura contro’ (also known as ‘The Green Inferno’ and ‘Cannibal Holocaust II’), ‘The Green Inferno’ follows an idealistic student and a group of naive do-gooders who are captured by cannibalistic Indios after their plane crash lands in the Peruvian jungle”

Worldview Entertainment will produce The Green Inferno and it had been previously announced that production will begin this fall in Peru and Chile. Here is...

Italian creator of the satirical film Mondo Cane and its 'shockumentary' successors

When the Italian film director Gualtiero Jacopetti, who has died at the age of 91, made Mondo Cane (A Dog's Life) in 1962, he tapped into people's curiosity and provided the strangest commercially successful film in the history of cinema. Audiences not yet accustomed to cheap air travel or the idea of globalisation were unprepared for its colourful National Geographic-style montages of "primitive" rites and "civilised" wrongs. The following year, they flocked to see the film's sequels, Mondo Pazzo (Mad World, or Mondo Cane No 2) and La Donna nel Mondo (Women of the World).

Mondo Cane was a film made out of a compilation of pithy sequences depicting strange rituals from around the globe. But while Jacopetti documented the peculiarities of what was then described as the third world, he also mocked the alleged superiority of western culture. The...