ROTTEN TOMATOES: Eli Roth Presents the Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen

Eli Roth Presents the Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen

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Aldo Lado did Short Night of the Glass Dolls, and he's a superb director.

This film is a rip-off of Last House on the Left, but set on the train. And it's really fucking creepy. It's got a problem where you can tell the train cars are on a set, but it's really, really scary.

The guys are these really creepy Italian guys and one of them has this whistling theme that was done by Morricone that when you hear it, it really gives you chills.

A lot of the girls on the train and the creepiness in Hostel II is very-much influenced by Night Train Murders.

Beatrice Cenci

Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore. He did these three fantastic films in a row.

One of them was called One On Top Of Another (pictured), which was also released as Perversion Story. Distributors would always confuse people with the titles of movies. One On Top Of Another is a really good giallo.

Then he made this film Lizard in a Woman's Skin. It's a terrific, terrific movie. It's really got this great, trippy dreamlike imagery in it.

But in between he made this drama called Beatrice Cenci based on a true story about this woman whose father was a wealthy landowner in the 16th century who locked her up in a dungeon in the basement. He was raping her and the family plotted and killed him and they were all executed. There was a huge public outcry about it.

Beatrice Cenci was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.

It's never been released in the US. I know there's one French DVD of it, I don't know if it's on DVD in England. It's the best film Lucio Fulci's ever done. It's so fucking good. It starts off right away and you're in it; it doesn't feel like a period movie at all.

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Mudhole writes:
on Nov 01 2007 09:39 AM

Hey, Eli...wanna know two other horror movies I'll never see? Hostel and Hostel II.

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Gimy writes:
on Nov 01 2007 09:45 AM

mudhole, thats your loss bra. well, at least with Hostel. hostel 2 was comparable to saw. it was that bad. it looked like the mpaa crapped on it so bad they refused to do anything really creative or coo in it because he saved the dramatics for one scene. nothing like Hostel 1...

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Man_Of_Iron8905 writes:
on Nov 01 2007 09:54 AM

Eli Roth's definition of horror is gallons of gore. I'll pass.

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fuj_ball writes:
on Nov 01 2007 09:58 AM

I knew this guy wasn't too bright, now I have seen it for myself. He sounds like a frat guy explaining to another fratty how great the beer and crackers were at his last party.

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dastly75 writes:
on Nov 01 2007 10:08 AM

Hostel had a interesting concept but I think it was too exploitative on gore for my personal tastes. Grindhouse was a fun exploit though. I'm just not into glorified gore/torture. Funny enough though, I absolutely loved Cabin Fever.

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Alexcar writes:
on Nov 01 2007 10:12 AM

God... He writes like a 9th grader...

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redrum writes:
on Nov 01 2007 10:13 AM

Although these are some decent recommendations, this guy is a talentless jackass.

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dahluzz writes:
on Nov 01 2007 10:13 AM

notice the steady decline in the quality of roth's films from the enjoyable cabin fever to the self-indulgent hostel, the wholly unnecessary flop of hostel 2 and now he's trying to make an entire movie of horror-spoof trailers because people liked thanksgiving in grindhouse? dude's trajectory is looking all sorts of whack.

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Herberbaly writes:
on Nov 01 2007 10:17 AM

I really like Eli Roth. I am a huge horror fan; it is my favorite genre. Everybody pissed on "Hostel" because it wasn't the goriest movie ever made, and surprisingly, many claimed it had too much nudity. Often times I think that people confuse "Hostel" for something other than an exploitation horror flick, which is exactly what it is. And I loved it, but I'm not going to convert anyone, so I'll leave it at that. "Hostel II" wasn't as good, but it still left me with one disturbing scene that I will never forget (blood shower masturbation, anyone?) and another scene where I grabbed my manhood in vicarious pain. Any movie that can both disturb and make me cringe is all right in my book.

I've heard of some of the movies on the list, but never seen any of them. Roth's knowledge of horror films is expansive as all hell, and sometimes it seems he is pretentious, as he picks some really obscure flicks only he, Quentin Tarantino, and few others have seen. However, he has great knowledge of the genre, and I have faith that he will continue to make good horror movies (key word: horror, not oscar-caliber), and one day make a true horror masterpiece. But it will take some time. Now that "Heroes: Origins" has been canceled, I hope he puts his main focus on "Cell," if for no other reason than to see what he can do with the zombie-genre. I just hope he goes right for the jugular with that one. I don't want any *****-footing in my zombie movies.

So, with all that said, I am going to prepare myself for the inevitable onslaught of post-bashing.

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Amsterclam writes:
on Nov 01 2007 10:58 AM

Avere vent'anni. Looks and sounds awesome. Just saying.

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mbrocchi writes:
on Nov 01 2007 11:00 AM

Ouch..

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Lee Bowers writes:
on Nov 01 2007 11:14 AM

Funny that on Bravo last night they had a program called "30 scarier movie moments" or some such thing, with short comments by various directors, producers and actors one of them being Roth. And hilariously enough Hostel was number one. Go figure. Cabin Fever was far better and defintely his best film to date. He needs to get off the self-star f**king bandwagon and get back to genuinely scary and interesting filmmaking.

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TheHeavy writes:
on Nov 01 2007 11:26 AM

I hate when someone recommends a horror flick by first telling me the name and then descibing a certain scene contained in that film,....what Ive found is the refrence to a single scene is a warning,..."Its the only ****in thing worth watching in the entire film:,.......Im a horror fan and a film nerd ,..and a film maker,..Im interested in recommendations were an entire film is good,... horror or whatever it is,... I want a good movie to see,...Im watching 'Meatball Machine" tonite so I guess I will see if my statement holds true

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zen_sychosis writes:
on Nov 01 2007 11:33 AM

Roth is a talentless hack and should not be allowed to direct anything with potential - e.g. "Cell".

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Eugene Fenlon BA writes:
on Nov 01 2007 11:33 AM

In reply to this comment (#1239294)
Nice one.

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Sanyi writes:
on Nov 01 2007 11:34 AM

Eli Roth is very underrated director I think. Hostel was pretty good, and the Thanksgiving FAUX trailer is absolutely awesome!
So, GO ELI!

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L0RD_Z0D writes:
on Nov 01 2007 11:44 AM

Same here Sanyi as for the haters let's see you stupid ****s make a better movie.

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BrianInSD writes:
on Nov 01 2007 12:09 PM

Did Eli Roth actually write this list or was it transcribed from some drunken rant? I hope it's the latter as reading this article was physically painful--I had to stop long before the end--and I would hate to think it was an example of his ability to construct a written argument. It makes me want to go out of my way to avoid the movies he listed.

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Lee Bowers writes:
on Nov 01 2007 12:10 PM

In reply to this comment (#1239390)
Okay Eli..er Lord Zod, really everyone loves your..er Eli's films.

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Elixor writes:
on Nov 01 2007 12:14 PM

Roth is just ok in my books. He's no Clive Barker or Wes Craven in their hay-days. Cabin Fever is a better 'horror' movie than either of the Hostel movies. I'll have to check out Torso, sounds interesting.

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