The movie was inspired by and serves as an homage to Italian cannibal films of the late 🏀 1970s and early '80s "cannibal boom", particularly Cannibal Holocaust (1980), which features a film-within-a-film titled The Green Inferno.

9 Cannibal Holocaust\n\n Cannibal Holocaust 🏀 is one of the goriest movies ever made and even includes real animal deaths on screen, leading to its ban 🏀 in Italy for violating animal cruelty laws. Cannibal Holocaust also received a five-year ban in America for animal cruelty and 🏀 extreme violence.