History YMMV / TheGreenInferno

* OvershadowedByControversy: Most public discussion about the film is composed of arguments over Roth's publicity campaign at the time of its eventual release, which was pretty much a direct appeal to angry reactionary types that can be summed up as "watch the Social Justice Warriors get horribly killed by the degenerate darkies they thought were human beings!".

** Multiple instances, including dismemberments, eye-gouging and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a disturbingly misplaced]] [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbation scene]].

** The use of the older cannibal tribe tropes is a hotbed issue in some circles. While one side claims using such tropes (and not visibly denouncing them) hurt efforts to help the actual tribes by keeping stereotypes alive, the other points people really should be expected to know that using tribes as cannibal villains in a horror movie doesn't mean all the known actual tribes (including the one that acted in the movie) kill and eat people now. In his reply to this, Roth said he completely supports the work of people who fight to protect the rainforest and tribal peoples living there, but sided with the fair side in feeling that viewers can tell fiction from reality (adding that the use of stereotypes were deliberate homages to those of the earlier cannibal films).

* OvershadowedByControversy: Most public discussion about the film is composed of arguments over Roth's publicity campaign at the time of its eventual release, which was pretty much a direct appeal to anti-SJW types that can be summed up as "watch the Social Justice Warriors get horribly killed by the degenerate darkies they thought were human beings!".

* TheWoobie: Pretty much all the protesters [[spoiler: with the exception of [[EvilAllAlong Alejandro]]]], who were tortured and killed by the same people [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished they were trying to save]]. Even Justine who made it out alive will certainly have PTSD from the incident.