An Open Letter to Eli Roth, Director of Hostel

Eli Roth would have you believe that the film industry is dying, he would have you believe that the music industry is dead. We know these things to be untrue, if they were true they would not still be multi-million dollar industries. If these things were true, people like Eli Roth and Quentin Tarentino...well, they just wouldn't have work.

Eli Roth would have you believe that the reason his latest torture-film didn't make any money at the box office, though records state that it has in fact earned back most of the ten million it cost to make it, is because of internet video piracy. That a few people saw his film a week before it opened and were so able to sway the entire rest of the world to not see Hostel II that his film is being forced out of theatres after only two weeks.

It seems unknown, unfathomable to Mr Roth that perhaps we just don't want to see yet another film about people being tortured for sport. That perhaps we don't want to see Heather Mattarazzo strung up like a stuck pig and gutted. That perhaps, to the entire rest of the world, Hostel and Hostel II just aren't that scary. That they are, in fact, nothing more than an intellectually immature man getting his jollie off of watching half naked girls get tortured.

Gross, disgusting and cruel are not the same thing as scary, Eli Roth. I would posit that your inability to distinguish between the two subjects has something to do with why no one came to see Hostel II.