Remember in Grindhouse, how they had all those trailers from different filmmakers? And how despite the fact that the movie itself didn’t do that well, those trailers have been spawning actual, feature length movies?
Eli Roth’s holiday slasher movie will be the next one, apparently.
The Grindhouse spawn actually have a good record. Machete is entertainingly ridiculous and marks one of the few times lately Robert Rodriguez has been tolerable. Hobo With a Shotgun was actually a very, very good tribute to the nastier crime B-movies of the ’80s; it was bleak as hell, but Rutger Hauer’s performance combined with the fact that it was the kind of movie willing to torch an entire school bus of children to Disco Inferno made it stand out.
That said, I can’t say I’m excited for Thanksgiving for two reasons. One, there’s literally nothing there whatsoever in terms of, y’know, content. The trailer WAS the movie.
Two, I’d really kind of hoped that Eli Roth had been relegated to the Hollywood dust bin by now. He’s OK, as a filmmaker, but if he hadn’t somehow glommed onto Quentin Tarantino, nobody would have any idea who he is.
He’s also seemingly pretty tone-deaf about this whole thing. He’s promising to make the movie scary. How? That was why the trailer worked: the premise was so inherently absurd that it functioned as a great parody of stupid ’80s slasher movies. So now you’re saying you basically want to make a self-aware, stupid ’80s slasher movie?
Great. Just do us all a favor, and cut the turkey humping.
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I’m not a fan of much of what Roth has put out to this point. If he wants to go retro and do this on the cheap, it might work. If he wants to do something budgety and pretend its retro, then I’m not interested.
Would I see it? Maybe. He’d have to keep being campy and include stuff we haven’t already seen.
Yeah, I’m surprised that Hollywood is still trying to make grindhouse movies considering none have recently been too successful.
To be fair, it’s a horror movie. Hollywood will always make horror movies because they’re cheap.
But…..that’s just like…your opinion man.
Heh, I know you’re joking, but you’re right. I’m not Movie Jesus. That said, I can’t really lie about my opinion either.
“I’d really kind of hoped that Eli Roth had been relegated to the Hollywood dust bin by now. He’s OK, as a filmmaker, but if he hadn’t somehow glommed onto Quentin Tarantino, nobody would have any idea who he is.”
Except those of us who think Cabin Fever was a brilliant mash-up of Lynch and Raimi. Or horror hounds who feel that Hostel and Hostel II are fantastic examples of the possibilities able to be explored in horror cinema, and who want to choke out any hipster douchebag who uses the all-purpose slur and dismissive label “torture porn.” We would know, because his work merits studio support. I would much rather see a new Eli Roth film (be it satirical or not) instead of any of the soulless top ten blockbusters in theaters currently. His films have proper plot development, flawless performances, beautiful camera work, and incredible production value along with humor and eroticism interspersed between moments of true dread. Sorry you don’t care for his ouvre (or his acting, I guess), but you’re making a hugely inaccurate assumption with a flippant comment like that.
I’m glad you like the guy’s stuff, but bluntly, he doesn’t impress me. Hostel was a movie about assholes getting tortured. I agree that it’s far better than the “Saw” franchise and its miserable imitators, but that’s an insult to literally any movie.
He’s not BAD, mind you, but he’s got absolutely nothing on his mind. There’s nothing wrong with that, but the difference between him and, say, Paul W.S. Anderson is his cred with the horror community.
Also, where the hell are you getting David Lynch from in “Cabin Fever”? Cronenberg I could go with, sure, but Lynch I just don’t see it.