Quit while you're ahead

A new horror film "follows a trio of twentysomething guys on a European vacation that begins as an orgy of sex and drugs and descends into brutal, bloody sadism," according to a SF Chronicle piece about a new crop of scary movies.

The world yawns. If you want everyone to sit up and take notice, just stick with the sex, as with Bareback Brokeback Mountain. Add drugs, fine. But why go and ruin a perfectly good sex movie?

Perhaps because of the opportunity to make statements like this from the director:

Tarantino even once dubbed Roth "the future of horror" in the pages of Premiere, which Roth says was both a blessing and a curse.

"It was an incredible honor," he says. "But, at the same time, there was all this backlash from people who were like 'oh, this asshole thinks he's the future of horror.' And I'm like, 'no, I never said that.' There's a group of people who want to hate you when they hear things like that."

Right... he's not concerned with his reputation for having made a gross horror movie featuring "intense torture sequences." He's concerned that people might think he's getting a big head about it!

I also liked this:

"Americans generally don't know the difference between Slovakia and Czechoslovakia," Roth says. "It's this whole country that Americans really have no education on."

Let's give the guy the benefit of the doubt -- he probably said Americans don't know the difference between Slovakia and Slovenia, and the college newspup fucked it up.