Monday Movie Review - THE GREEN INFERNO

Eli Roth has never been one to shy away from the horrific. In fact, he loves to push boundaries. That has never been more evident in his now classic Hostel and Cabin Fever.

The Green Inferno goes several steps further into that realm of queasiness and revulsion. The story evolves around a group of protesters putting their money where their mouth is, and hauling their butts and cell phones off to save the Brazilian forest from deforestation. Their plane crashes, and the survivors are discovered by a tribe of aborigines. It soon becomes clear the tribe is into the other white meat, and the survivors try to escape.

Once the group is brought into the tribe's village, the horror begins. The Walking Dead's Greg Nicotero is the mastermind behind the effects, the blood, the gore, the torture, and the effects are realistic and gut-wrenching...no pun intended.

The actors are fresh faces to me, helping to make the story more believable. The only negative I have is that the ending left me a little disheartened.

Overall, however, my hearty recommendation is that you

Monday Movie Review - THE LAST EXORCISM

Eli Roth, giver of those HOSTEL movies, has brought us his version of the "mockumentary" - more "found film footage", although it's never explained who found the film and where.

The story evolves around a minister who has lost his faith, and has turned to proving that exorcisms are really a money-making scam.  To prove his point, he answers a plea for help from a farmer in Louisiana who claims his daughter is possessed.  The minister does the hokey pokey, "cures" the girl, collects his booty, and is prepared to leave town (along with the two-member film crew following him around) when the girl shows up at his motel room.  She starts showing visible and unexplainable signs of demon possession, and the minister begins to have doubts about the existence of demons.

What follows are bloody and surprising incidents involving a stolen camera, the brutal killing of animals, and a revelation about the young girl.  It isn't until the last ten minutes that Roth pulls out all the stops and gives us a finale that will shake you to the core...if you can swallow it.

Although there isn't a lot of gore or "jump" shocks, the building tension to the payoff kept me on the edge of my seat, wondering what would happen next.  When you can finally wrap your head around the truth that's revealed at the end, you'll find yourself thinking back on it over and over.  And maybe re-watching those last few minutes again.

Which is why my recommendation is that you: