you the biggest boner, man.”
When news broke yesterday on the next project to lens for Eli Roth, I think there was collective finally from genre fans who have been chomping at the bit to find out which of his many projects would see the light of day first.
Well Roth, being the horror fan and all around cool guy that he is, got in contact with us to lay out some more specifics about how and why he picked this particular project. Not a whole lot of specific info other than the fact that HOSTEL goes in front of the cameras in two weeks. But some tasty tidbits nevertheless. So go ahead and chew on these:
The weird side effect of having projects out in the ether and on IMDB is that people think you’re trying to do six movies at once, which is not the case … That said …
I realized last fall that as much as I am thrilled to be doing a horror movie at Warner Bros. (BAD SEED) and a comedy at Universal (SCAVENGER HUNT), and a project with Richard Kelly, (THE BOX), the scripts for any of these films would not be ready to shoot until the spring of 2005 … So please know that these projects are definitely happening, though I’m not quite sure in what order.
The last thing I want is to be the guy who made one film, so I have been using the last year more as setup for the next two or three years of my life … I am thankfully not at the point where I have to take a paycheck yet, and truthfully, projects like BAYWATCH allow me to go and do a wild ultra violent independent horror film like HOSTEL. So let me tell you that HOSTEL is a wet dream come true. It’s sick. I mean really sick. It’s based on events I have been researching, which I wrote in with my own personal experiences of some horrific things I have witnessed.
This is not a horror comedy. This is a violent, scary film that will be much closer in tone to a film like Miike’s AUDITION or Hooper’s TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE.
Sooooo, an ultra violent wet dream from a great director who thinks a solid script is actually required. Me likey. And truthfully, who can hate on any straight adult male for taking a shot at a BAYWATCH movie? Not me!
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