You don’t need to see HOSTEL. It’s for gorehounds and for people looking to test their gore limits. Fine! Not my personal aim in life, so it has little to offer me. 

HOSTEL II succeeds by being a movie much more interested in having a point. Roth can claim all he wants that HOSTEL is a commentary on the cheapness of life or ugly Americans or whatever, but he’s full of shit; it’s a grindhouse spatterfest, and pretending it’s more…

Speaking of love letters to horror movies!

BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON is one of my favorite types of horror movies in that it abruptly becomes a different genre partway through. The setup is: a group of grad students are following a serial killer as he explains the planning and plotting that goes into his upcoming Halloween rampage. They listen to him explain that the most important target is a virgin who might escape; they meet his…