The gape of Roth

Rating: 1/10 (14 December 2006)

OH dear, Eli Roth, what do your parents think of your new graphic imagery torture film? Perhaps some Jewish holocaust organization might like to shed some light on exactly what they think of a foul mouthed poo and scalpel jester Jewish boy like you (see Hostel's 'making of' DVD section) actually choosing to write and then film torture imagery that degrades the actors, film industry creatives and lastly the cinemas and audiences? What is the point of HOSTEL apart from wanting to show screaming 20somethings slashed and drilled and being physically destroyed? What does it say about YOU, Eli? Not anything good I suspect. Like Australia's similar abomination WOLF CREEK directed by first time movie business vandal Greg MacLean this is the tourists getting hacked to death imagery. Maybe Roth Maclean and Tarantino are actually the axis of evil. HOSTEL exists for no other reason that to celebrate Tarantino and Roth's delight in human mutilation imagery. Like the cruel businessmen depicted in the film they perform the same act on the audience (giggling hi-fives all round). Yes it makes money, but so does war. To be so young and to have already sold your soul to Tarantino is the greatest horror about HOSTEL. The fact that good young actors like Jay Hernandez (and Heather Mattazzaro in HOSTEL 2) are reduced to appearing in this ugliness is an equal disappointment. Maybe to fill in his time better, some Jewish holocaust organization might educate Roth and pals in the value of human life, that it is not, as the Nazis gleefully enjoyed, a thing to be degraded and mutilated as entertainment. Apparently, according to industry paper Variety, Roth is 'thrilled at how gore audiences have embraced his new horror film..." and that "HOSTEL 2 will contain more graphic torture, especially on the new torture train..." . Gee isn't that just great for the impressionable teens of tomorrow. Go feed your Grandmother Eli, do something useful. Clean your street. Take some disabled children to see a real movie. One that is creative, not destructive.
... actually I just had a thought: wouldn't it be funny if Tarantino and Roth were both crippled in a car crash and had to spend the rest of their lives being fed by old Jewish people in a nursing home..