E L I R OTH ’ S THE GREEN INFERNO WRITTEN BY ELI ROTH & GUILLERMO AMOEDO STORY BY ELI ROTH RUNNING TIME: 103 Minutes PRESS CONTACT DDA Public Relations -
[email protected] 2 Synopsis How far would you go for a cause you believe in? In master of horror Eli Roth’s terrifying new film, THE GREEN INFERNO, a group of college students take their humanitarian protest from New York to the Amazon jungle only to get kidnapped by the native tribe they came to save. A tribe that still practices the ancient tribal rite of cannibalism, with a healthy appetite for intruders. THE GREEN INFERNO is Eli Roth’s return to directing for the big screen after 2007’s HOSTEL PART II, and tells the story of what happens when “slacktavism,” the well-meaning social media response to global catastrophes, turns into terror in the depths of the Amazon jungle. The movie begins in the protected world of an elite college campus in New York City, where students stage a protest, much to the dismay of the other students. A charismatic and dangerously hypnotic student Alejandro (Ariel Levy) delivers a wild speech to a group of students, drawing them in with passionate rhetoric. He shocks them with stories about a tribe far away in the Amazon jungle that is under threat of extinction. He urges students to join him, to do something, to get truly involved through action, not just through reaction and a few re-tweets. Alejandro is hard to resist and the story he weaves is real; these tribes will disappear due to the world’s corporations raping the jungle of its natural resources and destroying their habitat.