It's starting to feel like Halloween in department stores everywhere, and it's gonna start feeling that way at the movie theater, too. This week welcomes the beginning of a flood of scary movies heading our way over the next month -- with the family film Hotel Transylvania 2 for the kiddies and Eli Roth's love letter to Cannibal Holocaust, The Green Inferno, there to satisfy your thirst for the freaky (and bloody, and nasty, and crazy).
The Green Inferno -- which follows a group of student activists who travel into the Amazon rain forest and soon learn they're not alone -- was filmed in areas so remote that the real-life Peruvian villagers there had never seen a movie or knew what one was.
So in order to convince the village to allow the team to shoot there, they had to get a television and show them what a movie was. The movie they screened? Cannibal Holocaust.
And the villagers loved it.
In fact, they were so thankful to Roth and his team for including them in the movie that they offered the film's production designer one of the stranger gifts that's probably ever been offered on the set of a movie before.
Watch Eli Roth tell the story below, courtesy of Fandango's Instagram.
To confirm, no, the production designer politely declined the baby.
However, when it came time to wrap up, the production wanted to pay the villagers for allowing them to shoot there. Money was little good since they had no boats to travel anywhere to buy something. So in addition to money, the team built a kitchen for the school and roofed every house in the village.
Watch Roth talk more about the village and the production in this Q&A from the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Keep in mind this may include spoilers for the film.
Eli Roth will be dropping 15-second videos on Fandango's Instagram all week ahead of the film's release this Friday. Keep tuning in for more. Watch The Green Inferno trailer below.
Plus, watch Roth reveal what you need to know before you go see The Green Inferno.
