Eli Roth might get his rocks off from literally torturing the audience but his chickenshit exploitation schlock knows not of such savagery.
Rob Humanick, unfavorably comparing Roth’s work to Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead. Once again, this is an unfair and inaccurate characterization of Hostel, and not just because it misuses the word “literally.” Here’s why it’s wrong. (Hostel: Part II I’ll give him.)
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Watching the film once again, Romero’s carefully calculated deconstructions on social woes of the time seem most brilliant in their simultaneously identifying the film as a distinctly American work rooted in the cultural anarchy of the 1970’s as well a…