MIND & BODY Pt 25: Cabin Fever (2002) & Hostel (2005)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2021
⏱️ 118 minutes
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It's ELI ROTH WEEK! Mike is joined by Adam Robinson to talk torture porn and bro-horror with Eli Roth's two earliest movies, CABIN FEVER and HOSTEL, in spoilerific detail.
Music by Jack Whitney.
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| 0:00.0 | The In the early 2000s a new wave of American horror directors emerged whose gruesome |
| 0:29.7 | gory films harked back to the grindhouse cinema of the 70s and 80s, which these filmmakers |
| 0:36.0 | all grew up watching. |
| 0:37.9 | Film critic Alan Jones coined the name of this group as The Splat Pack. The Splat Pack consisted of Rob Zombie, |
| 0:45.0 | Neil Marshall, James Wan, Greg McLean, Lee Wonell, and perhaps the most |
| 0:49.7 | synonymous figure with this label Eli Roth. |
| 0:55.0 | Eli Roth was a 31-year-old enthusiastic movie nerd fresh out of film school |
| 1:01.0 | when he made his debut feature, a body horror that worked as a throwback to 70s |
| 1:06.4 | exploitation cinema called Cabin Fever. |
| 1:10.0 | Pancakes! |
| 1:11.0 | Pancakes! No pancakes! |
| 1:14.3 | Pancakes! No pancakes! |
| 1:17.9 | No pancakes! |
| 1:26.0 | Cabin fever was a huge hit and was referred to by Quinton Tarantino as the best new American film. But it was a couple of years later in 2005 that Eli Roth really made his |
| 1:39.2 | mark on the evolution of the horror genre. He made a film about a bunch of American bros |
| 1:45.4 | traveling to Eastern Europe who were kidnapped and taken to a Slovakian torture |
| 1:50.8 | dungeon. This movie opened at number one. and Not only that, it launched its own entire little sub-genre of horror known as torture porn. |
| 2:10.0 | Join me as we continue our journey through the mind and body as we discuss the first two |
| 2:18.0 | movies of Eli Roth, Cabin Fever and Hostel. cabin fever and hostile. Welcome back to the evolution of horror. |
| 2:30.0 | My name is Mike and as ever I am your host. If you're tuning in for the first time then |
| 2:35.4 | welcome. In this podcast we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of the horror |
| 2:40.6 | genre by looking at particular sub-jomras one series at a time. |
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