Alexandre Aja or Eli Roth?
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DeepDriven828 — 19 years ago(January 17, 2007 06:57 AM)
Aja is the future of horror cinema. He is so talented at his craft, and being that he is still so young I would assume he is yet to master it. Aja at his young age seems to comprehend the essence of true horror cinema more so than most vets. Horror cinema has taken a plunge in quality over the last 20 years or so, but he is bringing it back. He builds suspense and balances everything else out with precise perfection.
I was not impressed with 'Hostel'. I thought it was wack. The only thing 'Hostel' had better than 'High Tension' was a better ending. The only part of 'Hostel' I liked was the end when Jay went into the Mens room, and handled the guy. I thought that was great. 'High Tension' is my favorite horror film to date, but I didn't like the ending. I thought there were way too many loopholes, and unanswered questions. Aja has defended this, and I know how he feels, but many viewers agree with me that the ending was just too out there. However, everything else was great about the film. Aja mastered the art of building the suspense. 'Cecile De France' was brilliant in this role as 'Marie'. The directing was great in this film. The location was great. The soundtrack and score was precise. And most importantly of all, he paced the film so well. It wasn't too slow, nor too fast. It was just right, and that is something else most other horror directors/writers can't seem to do anymore. There hasn't been a better paced horror film done since John Carpenter's 'Halloween 1&2'. Those were both paced extremely well.
'Roth' on the other hand did not pace 'Hostel' well at all. The first 45 minutes were way too slow, and then it went way too fast. 'Hostel' was just terrible, although the ending was good.
But Aja beats out Roth, and probably any other horror director that I can think of. I do think 'Rob Zombie' is a pretty good director, but I think Aja edges him out. I am really looking forward to seeing what Rob does with this new 'Halloween' remake-prequel set to come out this August. -
toph_000 — 19 years ago(January 18, 2007 09:02 PM)
I agree with icri, Hostel was definitely falsely advertised. Didn't Roth actually say that he was the savior of the genre?? That's a bit too much for me. Aja beats Roth hands down. I can't wait for him to make another one of his own movies, but it looks like it might be a while. IF I had to cast a vote I would say that Aja is the best in the game right now. High Tension and Hills were both great and the guy is still pretty young. The fact that he will grow and become a better film maker definitely interests me, and I can't wait to see his future films.
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andell-2 — 19 years ago(January 22, 2007 02:54 PM)
I dont realy know who is the best of the two, i like them both and i will buy their next films for sure.
Aja and Roth are for sure the 2 most promising Horror directors today and i am sertain that at least one of them are going to become a legend like Carpenter, Fulci, Craven, Raimi, Romero, and maybe even like the Godlike master Argento.
These two guys are for sure a promising future of horror when the old masters have passed on, cause there doesnt seem to be many others that have any potential (that i know of) to keep horror movies alive.
They should both have credit for having the guts to show some great gore scenes in their movies to, i sure hope that they wont go over to more mainstream friendly horror movies like wes Craven did with all his movies from scream and forward. (like the pg-13 rated warewolf movie cursed, beep did that movie suck mainstream weenie just a little to much?)
or sam raimi, who i have heard rumors regrets having anything to do with the ber classic Evil Dead well its only rumors and i hope they are fake, and if they are i apologise to Raimi, but if they are true i will have to hate him. -
andell-2 — 19 years ago(January 29, 2007 08:20 AM)
well i forgot about Zombie indeed, but i have only seen hiss house of 1000 corpses.
it was nice thou, and devil reject have been given great rewievs, so he is defenitivley one of the upcomming horror heroes but i still like roth and aja more than him.
well that is what i personaly think and it doesnt have to meen that i am right or wrong about who is better.