What the F happened to Eli Roth?
Cabin Fever and Hostel are classics in the horror genre IMO. then just a huge decline starting with Hostel 2. I have officially lost faith
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i agree since then its like B-D horror lol
shareNo. Hostel: Part II is where he finally started to show some maturity as a director, with far more likable characters who weren't complete ass-clowns that the audience wanted to see slaughtered. Cabin Fever is awesome, but in a "so bad it's good" way. Everything about that movie just screamed "amateur" and was completely awful. It's the gory campy nature people enjoyed. Hostel was atrocious. It was nothing more than a slightly less sh itty "Saw."
You are utterly and completely wrong. Knock Knock and The Green Inferno, both with their own faults, are showing a director growing and trying new things. Sorry you like spoon-fed drivel. That's what the "torture porn" generation produced. Mouth-breathing morons like you that don't know the first thing about what makes a director good or bad.
Really? Hostel 2 was really poor. what was the point of the guy shooting the kid again? TO be shocking.....heard it ll before.
Green Inferno is a poor rip off of Cannibal Holocaust. It doesn't excel at anything. It's neither suspenseful, nor gory, so it kinda falls into a no mans land of mediocrity. The only interesting thing in this film is that the main "villain" is a woman, but he doesn't do anything with it.
Knock Knock, again a potentially interesting premise, that fails because Roth doesn't follow it through. Reeves "free pizza" speech reduces him from full on victim to guy getting kinda unjustly punished for doing something he shouldn't have. Again, Roth falls into mediocrity by not running with an idea.
eli roth has no "classics" in the horror genre. the dude wouldn't know the meaning of horror if his life depended on him. all his movies are just crap torture porn with no sense of direction
shareTake off the binders. Eli Roth sucked from the beginning. Hostel was full of protagonists that deserved to die and Cabin Fever was a vacuum of plot holes. Eli was never the new wave of horror. He is just a chump with a few ideas.
shareI am not the biggest fan of Cabin Fever but at least it had a good blend of humor and horror.
Unfortunately, both Knock Knock and Green Inferno has potential to be smarter movies than they ended up. Knock Knock could have been a good satire on rape with the tables turned and Green Inferno could have been a smart satire on over privileged college students boycott something they knew little about other than a professor telling them that logging in the rainforest is bad.
It seems like both these movies were phoned in and could have been well above average horror flicks.
Dean
Personally speaking I liked Hostel 1&2 and disliked Cabin Fever and Knock Knock and have yet too see Green Inferno but I think he is pretty talented he just needs to lower the amount of toilet humor in his films in my opinion it undermines the horror bits
shareHostel 2 improved on proceedings vastly
Oh god NO! The only thing Hostel 2 did was piss on the original. share
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