Don't waste your time on this pointless gore-fest

Rating: 1/10 (7 December 2007)

I'm a fan of the horror genre. Unfortunately there was no actual horror in this film.
Sure, many of the things depicted in this film are "horrific", but so is a panning shot of the piled corpses at a German concentration camp. That doesn't make it a horror movie.
The storytelling is average at best, and the actors didn't suck. Unfortunately, they weren't given much to work with, and the actual plot is like something a very disturbed 6 year old would come up with. Linear and very contrived. If this is how bad it is after Tarantino's re-write, then I really don't want to know how bad it was originally.
This film seems to be a vehicle for Roth's private visions of fetid gore, with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
I'm going to go re-watch Pulp Fiction now, just to blank this from my mind. Maybe I'll stick Reservoir Dogs, Saw and Severance on after that. All are a hundred times better than this steaming pile...