Eli Roth‘s cannibal horror flick “The Green Inferno” will finally make its theatrical debut Friday after rounding the festival circuit back in 2013, but critics aren’t necessarily happy to see it.
The film, an homage to horror films from the 1970s and 80s, follows a group of college students who travel into the Amazon, hoping to start a social media campaign to protect the indigenous population from an evil corporation’s bulldozers. However, things go awry when their plane goes down above the forest, and the students become the victims of the cannibalistic natives.
Though critics have praised the movie’s sly criticism of campus activism, the gory R-rated release from Blumhouse’s BH Tilt label has received only a 43 percent approval rating from the 40 reviews counted on Rotten Tomatoes.