He's only directed three movies in the 10 years since Hostel:
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venusboys3 — 10 years ago(October 18, 2015 09:37 PM)
Man, I hated Roth's movies right from the start Cabin Fever pissed me off and Hostel was just bait-n-switch (it's nowhere near as gory/transgressive as its reputation suggests). The guy is good at marketing but I think his writing sucks.
That said, I did kind of enjoy Green Inferno though the earlier bits up till the plane crash were really annoying. After that it's a predictable, somewhat sanitized jungle horror/cannibal movie. Kinda dumb, kinda fun. -
marioyorke — 10 years ago(October 19, 2015 07:53 AM)
Sometimes I find it funny, sometimes I get pissed. People commenting horror films are a bunch of really annoying sour nerds. Just read most of the answers to this post. Why do you take it so serious? Most of these movies are meant to make you laugh at some point
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noose_and_nail — 10 years ago(November 28, 2015 06:12 AM)
No. 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. -
Thorshairspray — 9 years ago(November 20, 2016 05:07 PM)
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. -
precociousrabbit — 10 years ago(December 17, 2015 10:54 AM)
Take 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.
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dean2900 — 10 years ago(December 18, 2015 08:58 PM)
I 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.
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aliensbatmansolidsnakefan — 10 years ago(December 28, 2015 12:26 PM)
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
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Falconeer — 10 years ago(February 04, 2016 11:13 AM)
I don't see a "decline" from 'Hostel' to Hostel II." I thought the sequel was a good horror film, and a perfect sequel. What makes the first one so much better?
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