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Adventure set in the Amazon, a small band of people go looking for a missing professor but encounter all manner of dangers. I saw this under the title Cannibal Holocaust 2, which is a total con. For a start there is NO cannibalism in this weak movie. Obviously the distributors retitled it from it's original titles, Natura Contro or The Green Inferno, to sell it on the back of Ruggero Deodato's original nightmare classic. This trash plays out like a comedy, only it's dumb, not funny in the slightest. The English version is badly dubbed but I'm sure even in Italian the acting would still be awful. Add to that some annoyingly bad 80's music, ridiculous script and terrible continuity this film really is best avoided. Monkey lovers may be best advised to give it a wide berth too, there's a fair bit of animal cruelty, though nowhere near as much as previous Italian entries.

While it's not universally acclaimed as such, Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust is a masterpiece. A lot of the other cannibal flicks hailing from Italy (and elsewhere) aren't masterpieces, however and this is certainly the case with The Green Inferno a.k.a. "Cannibal Holocaust 2". Quite why this film gets to be called Cannibal Holocaust 2 when many better films get stuck with thinking of their own title is beyond me, but there's no way that The Green Inferno deserves to be associated with the Ruggero Deodato film. The film is a sort of cross between an adventure film and a nasty cannibal flick, though it's not as nasty as the genre's "big" films, and the adventure side of it doesn't work too well either considering that the film is completely boring! Nothing that Cannibal Holocaust great features here; the jungle setting is not well used, the natives never really feel like they're posing a threat and the film doesn't manage to be disturbing in the least - something that can never be said for Cannibal Holocaust. There's really not much else to say for this film; if I could go back in time to be before I saw it, I wouldn't see it. If you're looking for something like this that does work – see the brilliant Massacre in Dinosaur Valley!

Unfortunately, there are no "Cannibal", no "Holocaust" and actually no "II" in this movie. The story is something like BBC documentary supplied with poor and, in fact, unnecessary acting. It can't be compared to Deodato's "Cannibal Holocaust", the title of the subject is just the exploitation of Deodato's movie success.

Even some rather natural and, frankly speaking, amazing scenes, for example, with strange fish crawling in aborigine's fundament or the reanimation of a monkey with the help of rubber tube can't save the movie from total failure, at least in my eyes.

And I am sure that it will be completely useless and pretty disappointing for all Italian (cannibal) horror movies fans and for all that violence-lovers. And, for certain, it is not a must see movie for true cinemaddicts.

Antonio Climati's "The Green Inferno" is obviously inspired by Ruggero Deodato's unforgettable masterpiece "Cannibal Holocaust"(1979).Professor Koranz is missing so 4 individuals(one woman reporter and three guys)head off to the Amazon to search for him.They encounter fish that feed on the intestines of live humans,bat attacks,unfriendly headhunters,anacondas and more jungle horrors."The Green Inferno" is nothing special.It has some rather unpleasant scenes involving animals,but the amount of violence is extremely low.Still if you like Italian exploitation cinema give this obscure little flick a look.However fans of Antonio Climati's downright unpleasant mondo movies will be sorely disappointed.6 out of 10.

I was previously familiar with the 1988 Italian movie "Paradiso Infernale" by its English title "The Green Inferno" and I remember having seen the movie once, many, many years ago. So as I had the opportunity to sit down to watch the movie again here in 2023, I opted to do so. And I have to admit that I had fully and wholly forgotten about the storyline of the movie.

It sort of amazes me that writers Antonio Climati, Marco Merlo, Francesco Prosperi, Federico Moccia and Lorenzo Castellano could collectively manage to put together such a weak script and storyline for a movie. I suppose that five writers and creative minds working on a script just simply was diluting the creative output.

I found very little entertainment in "Paradiso Infernale", and I guess that is why I had forgotten all about the storyline here, because there was nothing noteworthy to be witnessed throughout the course of the 90 minutes that the movie ran for.

The acting performances in "Paradiso Infernale" were adequate enough. Needless to say that I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble.

"Paradiso Infernale" is not a particularly outstanding movie experience, and for a movie such as this, with a cannibal theme, then there are actually far better and more enjoyable movies out there from around that same era of cinema.

My rating of "Paradiso Infernale" lands on a three out of ten stars.