Tuesday, October 23

• Eli Roth on the MPAA: "They're not bad guys."

  Not every filmmaker despises the MPAA, it seems. Making the press rounds in support of the DVD release of Hostel Part II, director Eli Roth stopped by the ReelzChannel studio last week for an illuminating chat in which he discussed, among other things, his true feelings about those infamous arbiters of film ratings.

  "Here's the big myth about the MPAA: They're not bad guys," the 'torture porn' auteur revealed to Errol Barnett of Dailies. "They're great and I love them. I've had such a great experience with the MPAA."

  "Nobody sees it from my perspective," Roth added. "The MPAA is like, 'Look, we get it. It's Hostel II; it's not Happy Feet II. We know that when people go to see this, they want to see the gore. We're gonna try and get as much of it through as possible, but here's areas where we know parents are gonna freak out.'"

  Apparently, "graphic severing of male genitalia" isn't one of those areas.

  Finally, someone's looking out for the children.

  
  
  Next Showing: Hostel Part II debuts on DVD today
  

  Exclusive Interview with Eli Roth

  The director of Hostel Part II talks to ReelzChannel.

  Posted 10/23/2007 by Thomas

  Eli Roth | Hostel Part II

• DVD Tuesday

  Hungry for some torture porn? Can't wait until Saw IV opens on Friday? Then let Eli Roth's gory opus Hostel Part II, which debuts on DVD today, be the methadone to your Saw heroin. Also arriving in stores is Kevin Costner's cerebral serial killer flick Mr. Brooks, the first movie to succesfully exploit all of the irksome qualities of inexplicably popular comedian Dane Cook.

  Our pick for this week is the decidedly less sinister Disney animated family flick Meet the Robinsons, featuring those adorably non-threatening Jonas Brothers.

  
  
  

  Meet the Jonas Brothers

  Thomas Leupp interviews Kevin, Joe and Nick
  

  Mr. Brooks - Trailer

  Starring Kevin Costner
  

  Hostel Part II - Trailer

  American girls will cost you this time around

  Posted 10/23/2007 by Thomas

  Kevin Costner | Eli Roth | Dane Cook | Hostel Part II | Saw IV | Meet the Robinsons | Mr. Brooks

Friday, May 11

• Eli Roth branching out

  Hacktastic horror director Eli Roth, busy readying his latest snuff film torturefest Hostel: Part II for its June 8th release date, talked to Collider about his future plans:

  "I’m going to be doing a film of all fake trailers, like Thanksgiving (the fake trailer Roth contributed to Grindhouse), called Trailer Trash. I want to make a movie like Borat or Jackass or Kentucky Fried Movie that’s completely ridiculous, totally silly and absurd, that’s just all fake trailers."

  A bunch of silly fake trailers? Perhaps someone should break the news to him that it's already been done. It's called Youtube, and it's filled with the works of filmmakers far more talented than Roth.

  Poor Eli; you came so tantalizingly close to devising your first original idea. Keep trying buddy!

  
  

  Posted 05/11/2007 by Thomas

  Eli Roth | Hostel Part II