Why Eli Roth Left 1408 (Page 1 of 2)

Okay I have read the story and it's really more of a ghost story than a gorefest.  I couldn't really see Roth doing this kind of movie in all honesty.

Hostel 2 was brilliant.  I wanted to watch it again right after I saw it.  And I am working on converting a Roth hater to a Roth fan.  And you are next Ripper.

Actually Roth doesn't like the term "Torture Porn" he doesn't love it.. He actually does some pretty interesting things in his films but people just can't get past the gore.. I do think he needs to move away from it to show people he has more in his bag of tricks so people will stop refering to him in negative terms..

Roth I think is trying to bring back the days when horror was fun.. not really scary.. The 80s.. You could go see most horror flicks from the 80s and it was just a party.. No one makes those kind of films anymore.. Hostel Part II definetly brought more of that back.. It wasn't as serious as I think the first one was..

from reading a recent interview with Eli to me its obvious he LOVES the term and just pretends he doesnt.

He loves gore and keeping things kind of funny but he doesn't like the term "Torture Porn" because its a negative term used to just put down his film.. It's just a cop out for critics to call it that..

http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1555574&vid=140058

Watch the video titled, "Is 'Hostel' Really 'Torture Porn'"?

Torture porn? That's just silly.  I agree with everything Roth said in TiM's post. I think  there should be a whole seperate bunch of critics who rate horror because only a true fan understands horror.

Yeah and after all Rip, should definitely by far stay away from the "Darkside." But me hating H2, is an understatement. I have never thought that there was a horror movie out there that i purely loathe and literally want to go over to the director's house, beat him over the head with a barbed wire bat and knock some damn sense into him and give me my money back plus interest. So yeah it is funny. But that was before i saw the movie and expected it to be good, but luckily i thought it was an utter piece of shit movie. Oh and by the way, it was best wise of Eli Roth to stay away from 1408 b/c if he was part of it, it definitely wouldn't be as good as it is right now. So thank you Eli Roth for backing out of doing 1408.

Last edited by BlackDeathDamien (2007-06-27 20:21:11)

I purely envy the guy who sat in the chair and got his private parts cut off.

Like i said if Roth had a part of 1408 it would of sucked. It definitely wouldn't be as good as it is now.

^ I think any film may be the wrong film for Roth.

Last edited by jmh314 (2007-06-28 21:53:31)

A lot of people feel the same way about Tarentino as what I'm reading here about Roth.  I think they're both very talented and have their own new ideas about what they want to film.  After all the uninteresting and needless (most of the time) remakes of classic horror movies, their ideas are fresh and they're trying new things so I want to keep watching what they come up with.  I really enjoyed all of Roth's movies so far and am looking forward to Cell.  I have to say I am a little curious about what he would have done with a movie as different as 1408.  And after all the recommendations here to see it I'm going this week for sure because I love that story.