Comments on: [Guest Post] You Just Take Them: Gender & Sexuality in Eli Roth’s Hostel (Part 1/2)

By: (non-fiction) – Alice Slater

(non-fiction) – Alice Slater — Fri, 08 May 2020 12:34:03 +0000

[…] You Just Take Them: Gender & Sexuality in Eli Roth’s Hostel (Part 1), published by Bad Reputation […]

By: Pet Jeffery

Pet Jeffery — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:27:15 +0000

Thank you for that. It helps to further convince me not to watch any films of this sort. Out of curiosity, I recorded one from late night TV (I think it was one of the Saw series) but never watched it. In my younger days, I was a big fan of horror films. At risk of showing my age, that was in the heyday of Hammer. Quite a lot of the 1950s to 1970s horror films, on DVD, now carry a 12 certificate. They seem to belong to a more innocent, and less violently misogynist, age.

By: Markgraf

Markgraf — Mon, 13 May 2013 10:05:23 +0000

I am so ready to read part two of this!

I first found Eli Roth via Inglourious Basterds, and literally only just unfollowed the guy on Twitter this morning because his feed is literally just him retweeting everyone who says he’s a horror genius. And, um, obviously I’m the barometer of who’s cool on Twitter.

This is a super write-up of what I suspected would go on in Hostel and I’m pretty glad I avoided it. I’m thinking of checking out his new werewolf offering though, because apparently the transformation sequences are brutal as hell. But I’ve heard that his gender politics is terrible in it :/ Can I brave it for werewolves? Let’s see…