There
is no doubt that writer-director Eli Roth is on fire! He is
extremely entertaining, animated, passionate, driven and handsome to
boot. Chasing his
childhood dreams all the way to Hollywood
via NYU film school, Roth’s impressive perseverance paid off when
his first low-budget horror flick CABIN FEVER, got picked up by
Lionsgate and hit the big screen in 2003. Newfound success and great acclaim led the way to the
powerful and influential Tarantino who went on to executive produce
Roth’s 2005-twisted thriller, HOSTEL.
It
would be easy to dismiss or overlook Roth’s contagious enthusiasm
for horror as pure consumption with unfathomable perversion.
However, in his elaboration on making the sequel HOSTEL:
PART II, he justified his spine-chilling thought process while presenting
a good argument for all the delirium culminating in a desirable,
dreadful, outrageous, entertaining horror movie in an attempt to
outshine, if not do justice to part I.
Going a mile a minute, Roth was an adrenaline boost as he sat
with us last week at the NY Comic Con, to divulge some horrifying
tidbits about the upcoming sequel HOSTEL: PART II, working with
Tarantino, what makes him tick (or rather give him a boner) and much
more. Check out what
Roth had to say.
Eli
Roth
Does
Hostel: Part II pick up from where the last one left off?
Yes,
Hostel: Part II picks up literally the next cut, where the first one
left off. I think Friday
the 13th part 2 did that, I believe Porky’s 2: The Next
Day may have done something similar although Porky’s 2 is a bit of
a comeback. Porky’s
Forever is a film I’d love to one-day tackle but I don’t think
I’m quite there yet. Yeah,
I love movies to pick up literally the next cut that you could
actually chop out the credits from Hostel 1 and watch 1 and 2 back
to back.
How
different is the structure of Hostel: Part II?
There won’t be as much slosh buckling as there was [in part 1].
There’s some gallivanting.
Structurally in the first movie, the fun of it was using the
structure as almost a sex comedy; taking the first half of the movie
and then just completely pulling the rug out from under everyone.
It starts off safe and colorful and then once Josh gets
killed, suddenly your main character is gone, the color is drained
away, the lenses get tighter, more handheld.
Then you actually see later that it’s more parallel; kind
of mirror image of each other. The
guy’s making fun of the hookers and they become the hookers.
So the fun of Hostel 1 was taking people on that ride and
doing the tonal switch but you can’t do that again. You can’t sort of reset and then have Hostel: Part II start
off like a fun, safe comedy and then switch.
So what I decided was that tonally I wanted the movie to pick
up exactly where the last one left off.
I
watched the movie with audiences around the world and I tried to
watch what stuff I thought worked and what didn’t work and what I
could’ve done better and there’s a lot of stuff.
There were certain things like the kids I thought were great
but generally my favorite section of the movie wa
