Too Scary; Didn't Watch - Bonus Episode: THE GREEN INFERNO

Episode Date: March 26, 2021

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This is Emily, Henley, and Sammy, and you're listening to Too Scary, Didn't Watch. Hi everyone, welcome to Too Scary, Didn't Watch, March bonus episode number two. I'm Emily, in case you're wondering. I'm Hen Emily, in case you're wondering. I'm Henley, in case you are wondering. I'm Sammy, in case you're wondering. I was trying to think of another joke and it just didn't come in time. I'm so sorry. Sure.

No, that's okay. No, no, no, that's okay. One of these times we should mix it up and I'll introduce myself as Emily and Emily. We'll play a trick on you. That's fun. And we'll see if you guys notice. An earlier month, we had you guys list some movies that you were interested in hearing us recap and Annihilation won. But Green Inferno came in second.

And we thought, why not? Why not? I can think of some reasons why not. But I bet I know why not. I thought why not why not i can think of some reasons why not but i bet i know why not i know why not immediately this is another one where i have no idea green inferno it sounds like um like a dc comic i guess i'm thinking of the green goblin green lantern green lantern Green Lantern Green Hornet There's so many comics There's a lot of green guys So I'm assuming it's just going to be Like that

Sort of I will tell you that The Green Inferno Came out in 2015 It is directed by Eli Roth Yeah we hate that Our very first Eli Roth Film Written by Eli Roth and Guillermo Amito starring Lorenza

Izzo, Ariel Levy, Daryl Sabara, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Magda Aparnavich, and Sky Ferreira. And it is streaming on Netflix for those of you who want to check it out. Sky Ferreira, who's like a pop star. Is she also an actress? She is a very bad one. I didn't know that. I didn't know that. That's news to me. I don't know if honestly if Eli Roth

told everyone to be bad in this movie because it's the worst acting of it. I hated this movie so much. Oh you did? It's bad on every level. God damn it. The acting is bad. The writing is bad.

The cinematography is ugly. It looks like shit. So this is just an ugly, bad, gross movie. I can't wait. Wait, Sammy, this never happens. I just don't think that I like Eli Roth. And I think that's okay. I know that I don't. Eli

Roth did Hostel. Well, he's like influential in horror. Right. Or he's at least a big name. Maybe he's not influential. I don't fucking know. I don't know how he's carved out this niche for himself. I guess like creating torture porn. I just don't think it's good like saw is at least like a good movie so what else has he done beside hostile and green inferno okay i wrote i wrote us down some some eli roth trivia to get us started and then we'll get into some some green inferno trivia but so his other films that he has done are Hostel, obviously, number one and number two. Cabin Fever was his first film. And he also directed a film called Knock Knock starring Keanu Reeves and Anna de Armas, which I'm not not interested in, but I'm sure it's also pretty bad. And a few other ones that I didn't write down.

I'll remind you, he is part of the splat pack i forgot about that uh which we talked about in our in our saw episode because james wan and lee wannell are also part of said splat pack and uh the splat pack are a group of independent filmmakers who have directed written or produced r-rated horror films notable for their low budgets and extreme ultraviolence. Oh, I hate that term ultraviolence. Oh, man. He decided he wanted to become a director at age eight after seeing Alien and Vomiting. after seeing Alien and Vomiting.

And honestly, from watching, because he is the host of the History of Horror films that we have done a couple of, and you can see that he thinks good movies mean you throw up or want to die. And I... You want to die. It's weird for me because there are some parts like I do like to feel like shit in movies.

Sometimes I've talked about that before. I feel like he's confusing emotional impact with any type of impact, like making you faint or throw up. I hate that shit. Any reaction is a good reaction. No, it's fucking not. Right. This is a bad movie and it just makes me feel sick and it's

also like racist and incredibly i think harmful to indigenous communities as it's like this like representation of we'll get into this because i wrote down some quotes from him but like this representation of indigenous people as like violent and like quote- savages is like so harmful and like reinforces stereotypes that like allowed colonialism to happen and like dehumanizes people that have different lives from like western like americans and i think he like thinks that he's making a like statement about that and it's like no you're reinforcing that thing. Well, the best type of horror that we love and we'd love to see is stuff like the Babadook, things that really examine real human emotions. And it sounds to me like Eli Roth has removed the intelligence factor and instead is all about the shock factor. And he's like,

I don't think he's interested in that. Yeah, he's like the bro of horror. Yes, that's exactly right. Yeah, and I fucking hate bros. Sorry if you're a bro listening to this. I hate bros. I'm against bros. Yeah, but okay.

We were talking a little earlier about something adjacent to this, so you guys are going to love this. He is a huge fan of Maryary kate and ashley olsen what and while filming cabin fever he played the olsen twins film holiday in the sun on a continuous loop in a screening room to give the cast and crew they go to australia i don't remember well that makes me like him a little bit more that's like i was reading some of these facts and i was like okay maybe eli roth the person is fine but i don't like eli roth the director um he says he cannot stand the sight of real blood saying it makes him sick to his stomach movie blood however has no

effect on that's interesting like lack of imagination, almost. You know what I mean? Right. Yeah. Well, OK, so that was my Eli Roth trivia. Now we'll get into some specific trivia to The Green Inferno and kind of about how the movie is problematic. There's a quote from Amazon Watch that says that such a patent patently racist film could be greenlit and released in 2015 is an indictment not only of roth but hollywood in general and the inter-ethnic association for the development of the peruvian rainforest said these kinds of films and images feed the prejudices that already exist in society in regard to indigenous peoples um it also pointed out that there are no actual cannibals in the amazon oh this movie's about cannibals oh god oh no really cool eli roth like just defended this movie so hard it's he's a fucking bro and it says roth is having none of it he said it's absurd it's like talking to a child the idea that the peruvian wait he said it's like talking to a child the idea that the peruvian... Wait, he said it's like talking to a child?

Mm-hmm. The idea that the Peruvian or Brazilian government or any of these companies that have been systematically dismantling and destroying and ripping up the ground underneath these people for their minerals and gases, the idea that a movie is somehow going to justify that is childish and naive. The cause of it is money.

They're not doing it because the Green Inferno said these people are bad. Like, he's like conflating these two things as if that's like a one-to-one it's like oh that is that's such a bro fucking tactic to be like i'm not mad i'm not bad because they're what about this shit that's bad look right here are you kidding me those can both be true you fucking moron like shut up you can have have you can be perpetuating a harmful stereotype and the environmental destruction of these lands can also be bad because of capitalism is eli roth the new stephen king fuck you eli roth that was another thing that i wrote down you guys are

not gonna believe it stephen king loves this movie. No. No. Stephen King. So Stephen King is still the new Stephen King. Still. Stephen King is Stephen King. Still Stephen. But we can throw Eli Roth in that camp. And you know what? I think we should lean into it.

These men. Fuck Stephen King. Fuck Eli Roth. Fuck Stephen King. Fuck Eli Roth. What is this? Now we have real beef. Now we have real beef with Stephen King.

I'm real beef. Instead of have real beef with Stephen King. I have real beef. Instead of it just being his books are too long and one of them was boring that one time. Now it's this. This is the new beef. Now it's this. Okay, so some more trivia on Green Inferno. So they filmed in Peru and with a tribe that was pretty secluded. And when Eli Roth and his crew approached villagers to be extras in the film, he soon realized that they had never seen a movie and had no concept of what one was.

So to demonstrate what a movie was, Eli brought a TV and a copy of Cannibal Holocaust. The original found footage film. I thought you were going to say Holiday in the Sun. I wish. I wish. I would prefer that. I would too. I think that is the one when they go to Australia.

Yeah, I think so. I was thinking about Weezer song,. I think that is the one when they go to Australia. Yeah, that sounds right. I was thinking about Weezer song, which I think was the theme song. Wow. So he actually filmed this in Peru with indigenous people. Yes, and it sounds like we had, if you can believe it, some actors' rights issues. I mean, we already have some actors' rights issues just from the beginning of that. Sorry, this is the one where they go to the Bahamas and Megan Fox is in it. Anyway.

Oh, that's a good one. It is a good one. OK, so this is in an interview with Eli Roth. Someone asked him what were the some of the bigger challenges of filming in the Amazon. And he said one day there was a flood in Andy's mountains and the river rose entire beaches where we had shot were washed away. Houses were gone. The water was up to the tops of the trees.

Debris was floating in the river, like a scene from the impossible. It was terrifying. It's like funny to relate that to a scene from a movie rather than like an actual event. Also that movie is based on a real event. It was like a scene from The Impossible. It's like a scene from a thing

that actually happened that they made a movie about. And he says, we all had to sit in the boat balanced by weight and we went through some rapids, almost flipped. There was nothing around, no villages, no phones, just jungle. So if we went in the water we

were goners i remember thinking this is it i'm going to be that story that cautionary tale that nobody wants to be this will be the worst accident in movie history but thankfully we made it and everyone came out unscathed and having just done cursed films there have been some really bad accidents in movie history. Yeah. And he says, but the positive side is that the actors didn't have to stretch very far to act. He's doing them a favor, you guys. Oh, as an actor, I loved to be put in emotionally traumatic or life threatening situations to really get at the core of the work. Anything for the screen. For me, the biggest priority is

a performance in a moment of cinema. It's not continuing to live my life. Especially for a horror movie called The Green Inferno. Called The Green Inferno. That is trash. In one scene, we chained

the actors to trees that were covered in azula ants if these ants bite you they say it's the worst pain you can experience like a gunshot for 24 hours we had to duct tape everyone's ankles and smoke out the trees but then you'd be sitting on the ground and poisonous tarantulas would crawl on you it was relentless you always had to be on your toes everyone took turns getting violently ill and there were no bathrooms my question to the actors was can you go to the bathroom in the jungle that was the test we actually brought a porta potty to the village for the casting crew to use but if you went in there the wild horses in the village would

come by and try to knock it over so try to knock it over wait this just sounds like it's being made up the horses are only trying to knock it over when someone's in it the horses know all i can imagine is this being like a family guy episode or something like the the chain of events here it just seems like so implausible. Also, I'm sorry, if you're casting a movie and you're like, okay, would you be willing to use the bathroom in the jungle? That is very different from you can only use the bathroom in the jungle because the

horses will knock over the porta potty and meanwhile you're chained to fucking trees with ants. Like, I feel like you sort of glossed over the bigger question there. Yeah, you're leaving some things out. Then the interviewer asks, did any of the actors get injured during filming? And Eli Roth says, thank God no one got killed.

But we had many close calls, like when Lorenza Izzo almost drowned in the river during a take. And yes, we use that take in the film. We had a safe word for her to yell, but it was so loud that when she was screaming it at the top of her lungs, none of us could hear her. When you see her clinging to the rock screaming, that's real. No.

Very cool. This is crazy. Does he have a publicist? Were they saying all this shit to get better PR? Do you know what I mean? Like to drum up interest in the movie? Yeah. Because it just sounds like he sounds like such an asshole.

Like he comes across so bad. I think he probably sounds that way because he is. Wow. Fuck you, Lera. Can we just skip this one? It's also like not scary at all is the other thing. It'd be like one thing if it was like tension building. It's just like it's not scary.

It's not good. The acting's bad. It looks ugly. Okay, well, I'm glad to hear it's not scary. I just don't want to know about the gruesome parts. And there's the whole thing looks gruesome. Yeah, Henley, I think that's kind of the point. Torture porn, baby.

Okay. All right, let's do it. Let's just do it. Let's just do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's just do it. Let's just do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. If you would like to hear the rest of this episode, and that is a very big if, you can head on over to patreon.com slash TSDW podcast and become a member of Tony fucking Collette's inner circle. If you don't want to, we obviously don't blame you at all.

It's probably a smart choice. We hate this movie very much. We'll be back next week with a regular episode we will be recapping as above so below which is streaming on netflix and we will talk to you then love you bye