In 2023, Eli Roth finally released his highly-anticipated film Thanksgiving, much to the delight of horror fans. While Thanksgiving is a gory affair, it's also a simple and fun slasher. You walk away from it with a smile on your face. The same can't be said for Roth's earlier works. His first feature film, 2002's Cabin Fever, is well crafted, but it's so dark and disturbing, with such realistic gore, that it leaves viewers shaken. Then came 2006's Hostel. Along with Saw two years before, it helped birth the unfortunate-named "torture porn" trope. Hostel, with its story of young American travelers in Europe who are abducted by rich men who pay to kill them, is as bleak as it gets. There is some hope among the bloodshed in its ending, but the original finale — one that was not only written but filmed — was so depressing that Eli Roth decided he couldn't show it.
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