Tag Archives: Eli Roth

Pete’s Peek | Cabin Fever 2 is a sick laugh riot

Posted on 22 February 2010 by peter

It’s a risky business making a sequel out of a genre-busting, fan-loving horror hit. Case in point is the belated follow-up to Eli Roth‘s flesh-eating gorefest, Cabin Fever. Made five years after the original, shelved for three, and disowned by … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Inglourious Basterds

Posted on 5 December 2009 by Jason Best

I’m still not fully won over by Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, but there’s no denying his darkly comic World War Two action movie’s brazen counter-factual cheek or its genre-hopping panache. The story that allows Tarantino to hop from genre to … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino’s WW2 revenge fantasy: it’s not only the spelling that’s juvenile

Posted on 19 August 2009 by Jason Best

  “Once upon a time in Nazi-occupied France…” So begins Quentin Tarantino’s much-hyped World War Two action movie, an ultra-violent fairy tale in which a band of scalp-hunting Jewish-American soldiers go on the rampage behind enemy lines… and, in an … Continue reading →

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