The always-polarizing Eli Roth has returned to the big screen with Hostel: Part II, another immersion into his world of a Slovakian torture factory. There are things that I liked and enjoyed about this film, but I will tell you that if this director hasn’t won you over yet, his third feature film will not do the trick.
When I heard that Hostel:
→Tags: Eli Roth, Horror, Torture Porn, Gore, Violence
ReviewWhat would possess a man to create a sequel to House of 1000 Corpses? If I’m not mistaken, the film came in at a whopping 14% on the Tomatometer; seems to me that the only one who liked 1000 Corpses was director Rob Zombie.
→Tags: Rob Zombie, House of 1000 Corpses, Horror, Violence
ReviewI don’t watch many horror movies, but this is what I made of Hostel.
I can’t imagine taking this film seriously, mainly because it’s not supposed to be taken seriously. I have also concluded that:
Tags: Eli Roth, Torture Porn, Horror, Gore, Violence
Review300 is plagued by the same condition that got movies like Snatch: the cool-factor. You see the film and you’re blown away by how amazingly cool it is. Then you watch it again, or start thinking about it, and you realize that once you’re done with all of the wowing on the surface, there’s not much left to the movie.
→Tags: Frank Miller, Gore, Violence, Comic
ReviewSmokin’ Aces is basically Rat Race meets Domino. Unfortunately, I found Rat Race to be lame, and I liked Domino until I actually started thinking about the movie.
The story’s simple: Buddy ‘Aces’ Israel (Jeremy Piven), a Las Vegas magician with Sinatra-esque connections to the mob decides to testify against them, promising to name names.
→ ReviewIn the hands of Verhoeven, the mammoth sci-fi battle flick is one of the most astonishingly bad films ever made, a monument to inept filmmaking on a colossal scale.
→Paul Verhoeven is exactly the wrong man to have made Starship Troopers.
Tags: Sci-Fi, Satire, Violence
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