Critics panned it as gratuitous torture porn, missing the satire. Audiences expecting Hostel ’s gritty realism found cartoonish gore (a penis bitten off, ants eating a tied-up man). But that tonal clash is intentional—Roth makes the violence so over-the-top that the “serious” activist dialogue becomes absurd. The film is a about liberal guilt, not a horror movie about Amazonian dangers.
Common criticism: "It wants to be a political satire and a cannibal movie, and it fails at both." Common praise: "No one directs visceral, tactile horror like Eli Roth. You feel every cut." The Green Inferno -2013-