Thanksgiving: Eli Roth looks back at being labelled a 'torture porn' director
Eli Roth, once labelled a director of 'torture porn' movies thanks to Hostel and Cabin Fever, says his movies are now considered classics and that 'the only critic that matters is time'.
Thanksgiving is in cinemas from 17 November.
Thanksgiving is in cinemas from 17 November.
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00:00 - A term that was often used quite a while ago now
00:03 is kind of this idea of torture faun.
00:05 And you said that that was quite offensive really
00:08 to the genre and especially to horror.
00:09 Do you think that the critical view of horror
00:12 has changed in a way where that's kind of now
00:14 a redundant term and just isn't used?
00:16 - I haven't heard it.
00:17 I don't think those types of movies are being made
00:18 or they were sort of done to death.
00:20 It's like very out of fashion.
00:22 It's kind of of a period,
00:23 but it just says more about the critic
00:24 than it does about the movie.
00:25 It's just a way of ghettoizing and dismissing the films.
00:28 And also you have 15 years later and 16 years later
00:31 and people are talking about the films like they're classics.
00:33 You know, kids that are 20 years old
00:35 that were four years old when they came out,
00:36 they don't know that term.
00:37 They just love them.
00:38 People are telling me that "Grindhouse" and "Hostel"
00:41 were the most influential horror films of the aughts.
00:43 They don't think of it like torture or any of that.
00:45 They're just movies that they love.
00:47 So I think that the only critic that matters is time.
00:50 You can look at "Last of Us," "Game of Thrones."
00:52 There's so much gore.
00:53 Any of the horror series that, you know,
00:55 people are, "Fall of the House of Usher,"
00:57 people are getting that at home.
00:58 It's not shocking anymore.
01:00 You have to be creative.
01:01 You have to come up with great new ideas.
01:03 Everybody's seen "Everyone Eviscerated."
01:05 Every body part's been chopped up.
01:07 What's creative is doing it with the corn holders.
01:09 It's doing it in a new way that people haven't seen before.
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