Every Eli Roth Movie, Ranked (According To IMDb) | ScreenRant – Screen Rant

Eli Roth is best known for his unique and meta-analytical horror work, but how do all of his film creations rate according to IMDb score?

Despite what critics may say about his movies, Eli Roth's love for horror, camp, and dark fantasy knows no bounds.No one pays tribute to their influences quite like Roth does in his films. It's no wonder Quentin Tarantino, a fellow film nerd, cast Roth in his 2009 war movie Inglourious BasterdsasDonny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz.

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While most of Roth's movies are considered trashy genre fare existing somewhere within the bounds of horror, his features span the spectrum. Some are gruesomely violent. Others are absurdly hilarious. They all contribute to Roth's reputation as a cult director who tends tooffend critics andconfuse mainstream audiences by subverting their expectations.

Knock Knockis post-John Wick Keanu Reeves at his most ridiculous. InKnock Knock, Reeves plays a married man home alone for the weekend who is targeted by a pair of deranged women looking toplaya perverse game.

After seducing Reeves's character Evan, the women (played byLorenza Izzo and Ana de Armas) unravel a farcical,outlandishplot to tortureEvan and expose his misdeeds to his family - just for the fun of it. While some fans interpretKnock Knock as a tongue-in-cheek feminist thriller, others see it as irresponsible, pornographic garbage.

Roth's homage to old Italian cannibal horror movies, particularly 1980'sCannibal Holocaust, is a gruesome story about a group of fair-weather environmental activists who are captured by an Amazonian tribe in Peru. As it goes with films of this nature, the tribe practices cannibalism and ritualistic sacrifice.

While Roth received criticism for his characterization of indigenous groups, he defended the film as an exploitation picture that uses extreme violence to provide commentary about the ways outsiders disrupt indigenous practices. One of the film's supporters, novelist Stephen King, describedThe Green Inferno as "a glorious throwback to the drive-in movies of my youth."

The second installment in Roth's torture porn seriesHostel is just as divisive as its predecessor. It centers around three American women vacationing in Rome who are lured to a Slovak village where wealthy clients bid to torture them to death in a secret facility.The film'sunrelenting carnage and deeply disturbing connotations proved too much for many critics, who couldn't see past its gory tone.

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Fans of theHostelfilms, though, note its geopoliticalundercurrents. Instead of ghosts or monsters, this film shows how those with wealth and status can buy the right to anything, even committing heinous murders.

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Reviewed and Recommended by Erik Baquero