| In 1963, Herschel Gordon Lewis unleashed a | | | | hands being chopped off, limbs tortured and |
| movie called "Blood Feast" on an unsuspecting | | | | knife-wielding maniacs in this one just like the last |
| American movie going public. It featured a man | | | | one. Eli Roth does have a great grasp of what |
| who needed body parts from women to conjure | | | | frightens you, but I would like to see him branch |
| up a long-dead Egyptian Goddess to complete an | | | | out into a realm of more traditional horror, and |
| Egyptian Feast. The scenes of decapitated heads | | | | perhaps make a vampire movie or two. It would |
| and torsos dripping with blood was the first really | | | | be interesting to see if he has the directing chops |
| gross-out material that most people had seen up | | | | to come up with his own "Exorcist" movies |
| to that year. Before that, "Dracula" and | | | | without having to resort to extreme blood and |
| "Frankenstein" dealt with the nature of "traditional | | | | gore, even though there's nothing wrong with that |
| horror", meaning that frightening makeup and | | | | as long as it's done with a sense of style and flair. |
| dark, foggy exterior scenes made up the scary | | | | With his remake of "Halloween", Rob Zombie |
| nature of horror movies. | | | | must leave some of his blood and gore and |
| Some critics much prefer the traditional ways of | | | | torture sequences from his first two forays into |
| horror, but the majority of young moviegoers | | | | horror at home. This franchise calls for real chills |
| today prefer the torture scenes of movies like | | | | and thrills from the tense action sequences that |
| the "Saw" trilogy, the "Hostel" movies and the | | | | John Carpenter gave us in the first movie made |
| works of Rob Zombie, such as "House of 1000 | | | | in 1978 with Jamie lee Curtis. A newcomer |
| Corpses" and " The Devil's Rejects". Both of | | | | actress called Scout Taylor-Compton will play |
| those movies feature extreme torture sequences | | | | Laurie Stroud in the remake, which looks to be |
| and headless torsos bleeding from the neck, | | | | more sinister in nature than any of the sequels if |
| knives through the skull, sledgehammer blows to | | | | you happen to see the great preview for the flick |
| the head, and many other such atrocities. | | | | which will be released this August. |
| In "Hostel 2", director Eli Roth revisits the same | | | | Overall, a nice combination of the modern world |
| Slovokia hostel that the previous film explored. | | | | of blood and gore with the traditional values of |
| This time, three beautiful co-eds encounter some | | | | older horror movies would make for a very good |
| very violent killers in their hostel, and the torture | | | | future for the genre most movie geeks love to |
| begins. You can expect more than a handful of | | | | the utmost: HORROR!! |