[Kill of the Week] Butchered By Cannibals in ‘The Green Inferno’
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Every week, we spotlight a kill that we just can’t get enough of. This is Kill of the Week.
To this day, I still can hardly even believe that I saw Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno at my local theater. At a time when it seemed like every major horror release was of the paranormal/found footage variety, along came The Green Inferno in 2015, a gory-as-all-hell homage to the Italian cannibal films of the ’70s. As I sat there in my theater, watching bodies get hacked apart and eaten, I was transported back to a far different time in the genre’s history – when the shock factor was high and the blood flowed freely across the big screen.
As Stephen King so eloquently put it, The Green Inferno was “a gory throwback to the drive-in movies of my youth. Bloody, gripping, but you can’t look away.”
Sure, The Green Inferno has a handful of problems – the characters are all pretty unlikable, while the tone is all over the place – but it won me over for being the goriest celebration of exploitative violence that has found its way onto the big screen in the past several years.
In the film, a group of social activists crash land into the backyard of a cannibal tribe – ironically, the very same tribe they were trying to protect. From there, the arterial spray is heavy, but no one gets it worse than Jonah, who is first mutilated by the tribe’s female elder; she plucks out his eyeballs and cuts off his tongue, both of which, naturally, she consumes.
Another member of the tribe then brutally dismembers Jonah piece by piece, first cutting off his arms with a hatchet… followed by his legs… and then his head.
The killer tomatoes are back in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence, and the offiical poster for the brand new movie has been unleashed tonight.
Additionally, we’ve learned that the film’s theatrical release is set for this August, with a panel set for San Diego Comic-Con this month featuring the world premiere of the trailer.
While you wait, check out the official poster down below.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence will be released in select cities across the US beginning August 7th in major cities such as Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Diego, and others, and expanding to further locations throughout the month.
The fifth installment in the horror-comedy franchise pits the eternal power of nature against AI’s best and brightest.
In Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence, a young biotech prodigy develops a revolutionary genetically engineered vegetable designed to solve humanity’s problems. But when the experiment spirals out of control, it unleashes a new generation of killer tomatoes, setting the stage for another outrageous chapter in the long-running cult franchise.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes co-creators Costa Dillon and J. Stephen Peace return to write and executive produce. David Ferino directs.
The film features an ensemble cast led by franchise icon John Astin (The Addams Family), reprising his role as Professor Gangreen, comedy legend David Koechner (Anchorman), Academy Award nominee Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight), horror favorite Catherine Corcoran (Terrifier), comedy veteran Dan Bakkedahl (Veep), Myrna Velasco (Star Wars Resistance), Vernée Watson (Shrinking, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air), and Paul Bates (Coming to America).
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes launched in 1979, followed by 1988’s Return of the Killer Tomatoes, 1991’s Killer Tomatoes Strike Back, and 1992’s Killer Tomatoes Eat France.
The franchise also spawned an animated series in 1990.
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