Eli Roth sells out?

Last Updated on July 27, 2021

Ya know, I’m almost sick and tired of Eli Roth. I loved CABIN FEVER but his cocky regard to the terribly uninteresting and lack of substance HOSTEL and it’s subsequent sequel only makes me realize that he’s not the next step in horror filmmakers. I wish he’d be more modest and just let things happen instead of running around Hollywood claiming he’s god’s gift to film. I would respect him more, truthfully. Anyways, today my realization was immortalized by words from Roth himself.

Eli Roth sent an email to his harshest critic, Nikki Finke confirming his departure from horror.

“As far as violence goes, I think at this point I’ve pushed the boundaries of horror as far as I can, and it’s someone else’s turn to take over spilling blood and guts. I have new challenges and much more ambitious ideas that are not horror related that I’m working on, as well as other artistic endeavors outside of film. I love directors like Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, who pushed the boundaries of gore and horror in their early career, and then took that same energy and aesthetic and applied it to other genres. I’ll always love horror and I’m sure I’ll make more horror movies, but once you’ve spilled that much blood, you kind of have it out of your system and look for other ways to make audiences scream and cheer and vomit.”

I’m sorry you feel that you’ve pushed horror as much as you can, because I thought you could do more. If you had just stepped away from the HOSTEL films… but I guess you just don’t have the will to take anymore crap from critics. The thing about guys like Jackson is that they kept doing something different and taking a new approach to it. I mean BAD TASTE, DEAD ALIVE, HEAVENLY CREATURES, THE FRIGHTENERS, all great films from a great filmmaker doing what he believed in. It’s not that he just got up one day and say “Hey, I don’t have what it takes anymore to push the envelope in horror films anymore.”

That is enough of my rant but I don’t think one should compare his career to that of Peter Jackson or Sam Raimi without a couple more films to his name. Anyways, I suppose that answers my question on why TRAILER TRASH is a comedy rather than an exploitation horror film like everyone thought it was. If you’d like to read more on Roth’s sell out, click here.