Eli Roth’s Trailer Trash

When I saw Grindhouse, I wondered out loud to some friends: “Why don’t they just make an entire movie of just fake trailers.” People told me it wouldn’t work. One friend said you need a narrative story and nobody would sit in a theater for 30 episodic trailer clips. Well it looks like Eli Roth had the same idea, and has found the solution.

Eli Roth“I’m going to be doing a film of all fake trailers, like Thransgiving, called Trailer Trash. I want to make a movie like Borat or Jackass that’s literally completely ridiculous, totally silly and absurd, that’s just all fake trailers. I have a genius way to tie it all together so it will actually play like a movie,” Roth revealed to Collider at the Saturn Awards. “I want to do this with a budget because they have to look like movies. Literally I’ll have the satisfaction because it will feel like I made 30 movies.”"That’s the beauty of Trailer Trash - you just need good gags and good kills.”

According to Roth, his friends are already on board to contribute segments, including Edgar Wright, Greg Nicoatero and Robert Rodriguez. One could probably assume that Richard Kelly and Quentin Tarantino would also be on this list, although they were not mentioned. Thanksgiving 2 and Hanukill are just some of the films he plans to include in the compilation, which he hopes to shoot in parts before and after he goes into production on the adaptation of Stephen King’s Cell. Sounds like a plan.

  • Eli Roth is awesome. I loved Cabin Fervor even though most didn't. It was like an old horror film. Anyway this sounds like a great idea, and might work. I know I would go see it. I would have seen Grind House in the theater but the length of the movie turned me off. But when it hits DVD I am there.
  • Nick
    I actually saw a movie very similar to this concept called "Tunnelvision." It was from the 70s and has cameos by Al Franken, John Candy, and Chevy Chase. Here's the IMDB synopsis... "This 1976 film tries to predict what American television will be like in the year 1985. Tunnelvision is America's first "uncensored and free" television network. Although wildly popular, it is also blamed for increased crime and unemployment. Christian A. Broder, president and founder of Tunnelvision, is called to defend his network in front of a Senate sub-committee. The sub-committee decides to view excerpts from a "typical" day of Tunnelvision broadcasting. What follows is a series of brief skits lampooning television, including cop shows, news broadcasts, situation comedies, and (of course) commercials."
  • Joe
    Yeah wasn't this called "Amazon Woman on the Moon"?
  • monika
    Good for him he has so much potential and 30 short movies can be done i mean look at Paris , je t'aime you have about 26 short films and it works . and i also can't wait to see The Cell. read the book and pretty much every other Stephen King book there is and i love all the work done on the screen and in the books. so good luck to him i will be watching your movies.
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