The Green Inferno(2014)
2014 · Eli Roth · 100 min
A group of student activists travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest. However, once they arrive in this vast green landscape, they soon discover that they are not alone… and that no good deed goes unpunished.
Adventure · Horror
5.71.6k votes
TMDB score
5/5
Intensity
5/5
Gore
3/5
Stays with you
How scary is The Green Inferno?
Watching this feels like being trapped and helpless as things get progressively worse, with long stretches of dread before the violence hits hard and doesn't let up. The pace builds slowly at first, following a group into unfamiliar territory, then shifts into brutal, drawn-out sequences of physical harm that are shown in graphic detail. This isn't a jump-scare ride; it's a queasy, stomach-churning kind of horror built on body trauma and captivity rather than mind games. It's for viewers who can handle extreme, sustained gore and don't mind feeling genuinely unsettled rather than just thrilled.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, The Green Inferno rates psychological 2/5, visceral 5/5, gore 5/5, lingering effect 3/5, and overall intensity 5/5.
- Psychological: 2 of 5
- Visceral: 5 of 5
- Gore: 5 of 5
- Lingering: 3 of 5
- Intensity: 5 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 15 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 95 of 100 — leans Real-world
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 75 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
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A slow, almost breezy setup gives way to a sudden, brutal plunge into sustained horror that pounds relentlessly through the back half before easing slightly at the very end.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 4, 5, 5, 4, 5, 4, 2.
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