Cinema Suicide

I’m in conflict with Eli Roth.  I really quite liked Cabin Fever and Hostel but Eli is one of those directors who, like Quentin Tarantino, has injected as much of his particular personality into his own movies so that it becomes difficult to separate my distaste of the auteur, himself, from his movies, which I like.  I also can’t stand reading interviews with the man since his own verbal diarrhea rivals that of Robin Williams on any given talk show.

Yet here I am again, cursing a man I don’t even know who had the taste to masquerade as Kakihara, pictured left.  If Bloody Disgusting is to be believed, and I don’t know why you wouldn’t, Roth enjoyed shooting his faux trailer, Thanksgiving, for Grindhouse so much that his latest feature idea is as unconventional as the Grindhouse double whammy and probably doomed to the same fate.  At least he’ll get to hang out in the unemployment line with his buddies Quentin and Robert (I kid).

Deatils on what Trailer Trash actually is are a little hard to come by.  Apparently, the feature will be like those trailer reels you can buy but each trailer has some kind of common idea that ties them all together.  I really liked the trailers in Grindhouse and would love to see some features based on Thanksgiving and Don’t.  I don’t really know what to make of this, though.  I’m not willing to write it off yet since I’m pretty sure that Grindhouse was toxic enough to the box office that anything related to it gets shut down seconds after the pitch meeting begins so it would have to have some promise to make the money people forget how much they lost on Grindhouse.

From Bloody Disguting:
Trailer Trash is not a horror film, it’s a comedy. It will be very R-rated and completely insane, and I’m producing it with Mike Fleiss (who I did both “Hostel” films with), and writing it with my friends Jeff Rendell (my “Thanksgiving” co-writer, who also played The Pilgrim), Noah Belson (my co-creator on “The Rotten Fruit,”) and my brother Gabe, who’s collaborated with me on everything I’ve ever done.

I want to make a film like “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” which I consider to be the greatest achievement in the history of cinema. The best part is I get to shoot some new THANKSGIVING scenes, as well as other holiday slasher films I’ve always dreamed of making but never would because they’d completely ruin me. I can’t wait to shoot!”

I guess we’ll see.