1970s in film was far less successful. "The Towering Inferno" teamed Steve McQueen and Paul Newman against a fire in a San Francisco skyscraper. The film cost a whopping $14 million to produce (expensive for its time), and won Academy Awards for Cinematography, Film Editing, and Best Original Song. The same year, the epic "Earthquake" featured questionable effects (camera shake and models) to achieve a destructive 9.9 earthquake in Los Angeles. Despite this, the film was one of the most successful of its time, earning $80 million at box office. By the late 1970s, the novelty had worn off and the disasters had
The Green Inferno (film) The Green Inferno (film) The Green Inferno is a 2013 American cannibal horror film directed by Eli Roth. The film was inspired by and is a homage to Italian cannibal films of the late 1970s and early '80s "cannibal boom", including "Cannibal Holocaust" (1980), which features a film-within-a-film titled "The Green Inferno". The film follows a group of activists who are forced to fight for survival when they are captured by a cannibalistic tribe. The film was released on September 25, 2015, by Blumhouse Tilt and High Top Releasing. Justine, a college freshman, becomes interested in a social activism group