Eli Roth isn’t doing too well these days. The torture porn frat boy’s “Hostel II” took a box office beating and a critical raping and now fellow directors are joining the fray. British filmmaker Danny Boyle ripped into Mr. Backwards baseball cap horrormaker on Friday and it’s clear the two won’t be going out for pints anytime soon.
“His movies aren’t even particularly well done,” Boyle told the New York Daily News. “They’re not even scary. They’re horrible, but that’s not scary. It’s not suspense. And if you watch my films in detail, there’s actually not a lot of violence in them. You get numb with violence very quickly.”
With torture porn on the ropes, Roth has decided to take some time off and abandoned the Stephen King “Cell” project he was scheduled to direct. Roth’s spokesman Simon Halls told the NYDaily that, “Eli has a lot of fans out there, and these last reviews he received were really great.” Umm, ok, if you say so. Boyle might want to watch it though, as much as we love him, we really exactly can’t see his upcoming “Sunshine” becoming box-office gold. Not that numbers really matter…
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