The movie plays off deep in the Amazon and is about an un-contacted tribe.
He decided the movie must be shot really deep in the Amazon forests—somewhere off the grid.
So they went up the Amazon River for hours on end and eventually came across a very primitive village that looked like it was out of another time. Perfect!
He asked the villagers if he can shoot his movie there. They said they first want to know what a movie was!
They have obviously never been exposed to television or film. In fact, they'd never even heard of electricity.
A television and a generator was brought in and the villagers were shown the movie ‘Cannibal Holocaust’. Eli himself thought that maybe that wasn't such a good choice, but it turned out that the villagers loved it.
They thought it was a hilarious comedy. It was the funniest thing they had ever seen and they all wanted to play cannibals in the new movie!
The entire Amazonian village ended up being cast in the film ‘The Green Inferno’—which they probably still see as a comedy.
