So many people loved Eli Roth’s fake trailer Thanksgiving (which was of course attached to Grindhouse, which you didn’t see because, well, who did… but for the record, I saw it 3 times in the theater), that Roth announced that he wanted to doa full movie of fake trailers called Trailer Trash. And today, Roth has confirmed to our friends at Bloody-Disgusting that MGM will be released the movie in theaters on August 22nd 2008. So yes, another pre-strike movie!
Trailer Trash is not a horror film, it’s a comedy. It will be very R-rated and completely insane, and I’m producing it with Mike Fleiss (who I did both “Hostel” films with), and writing it with my friends Jeff Rendell (my “Thanksgiving” co-writer, who also played The Pilgrim), Noah Belson (my co-creator on “The Rotten Fruit,”) and my brother Gabe, who’s collaborated with me on everything I’ve ever done.
I want to make a film like “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” which I consider to be the greatest achievement in the history of cinema. The best part is I get to shoot some new THANKSGIVING scenes, as well as other holiday slasher films I’ve always dreamed of making but never would because they’d completely ruin me. I can’t wait to shoot!”
Sounds good to me. I’ve always found that short form entertainment has gotten the shaft in the big theater environment. I, like many, love how Pixar has brought back showing short films before their features. And it seemed like the fake movie trailers which were attached to Grindhouse were some of the most talked about segments of the double feature. So I’m really glad to see that something like this will be given a chance.
Roth also talked about Trailer Trash during our interview back in June, saying that he has “a great way to string them together”. He mentioned a couple of the fake movie ideas he would be using: “Leap Year Massacre” where the killer only strikes every Leap Year and “Bear Witness”. And I know some people really dislike Roth’s films, but the one thing that most of you must agree that he totally nails is that creepy humor from the 1970’s and 1980’s horror films. And Trailer Trash basically sounds like 90-100 minutes of that type of humor, and horror money shots. I’m sure we can also expect some good cameos from Roth’s friends.
October 12th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Grindhouse was the best movie I’ve seen in theaters this year. If anybody missed out, I’m sorry. I saw a few people walk out during “Death Proof,” either because it was boring (to which I say no sir) or due to its’ length. People really didn’t give this movie a chance, and to those who did 98% of the people enjoyed the film very much.
Theater experiences have changed. People want to be entertained for 90 minutes and race home to watch American Idol and other lame shows. They don’t remember back in the 20’sm 30’s, and 40’s where people would sit in the theater for 2 hours + to watch back to back films, hear about the news, and just get away from it all.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
This is awesome news… I loved Grindhouse, thought only saw it 2 times in theaters and I loved all Eli’s work (esp Thanksgiving). This should be awesome, I would love to QT and RR to do the favor back to Eli and each provide a trailer for this…
October 12th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
I agree that I love how Pixar shows short films before its movies… but a movie full of trailers, especially with Eli Roth involved, doesn’t excite me in the least.
October 13th, 2007 at 2:38 am
I see it being more “Amazon Women on the Moon” or “Kentucky Fried Movie”….. which I’m all for…
October 15th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Has everyone gone completely insane?! Eli Roth is just about the biggest hack working in Hollywood these days (although competition is fierce). This is the lamest fucking idea I have heard in a long, long time. Try writing an actual story douchebag. Preferably one that doesn’t suck. Seriously people, what the hell happened to standards? What a bunch of mouth-breathing, sychophant losers. Of course these guys (Smith, Tarantino, etc.) seem to be getting by on pure bullshit these days. This will never happen. How many times do you hear about one of these guys doing this or that and then it never happens. Is everyone in LA just fucked up all the time? Stick a fork in Hollywood, it’s done.
P.S Death Proof SUCKED.
October 24th, 2007 at 11:51 am
This sounds awesome. I am a big fan of Grindhouse movies and when this double feature came I almost crapped my pants. I saw it, count em, SEVEN times in theaters which was almost every day that it lasted in our small town. It was quite amzint though and I can’t wait for this and Machete.
October 29th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
I saw Grindhouse in the theater 3x. Thanksgiving was genius (as was Planet Terror). I can not wait for this.
November 28th, 2007 at 5:56 am
All of Roth’s movies are terrible and he has very little talent. Thanksgiving was overrated, funny once or twice but then? To make a whole film of similar trailers just seems silly (not in the good way) and a result of the above mentioned lack of talent. I agree with Robert - Roth just can’t write an actual story. My feeling is this movie won’t do well and maybe finally people will realize this guy is a joke and will spare us painful garbage calling itself ‘film’ in the future.