In Space, No One Can Hear Eli Roth Make A Secret Horror Movie [UPDATED]
Update:Well, it turns out this teaser looked really cheap for a reason! This is not a real movie, but viral marketingfor the web seriesJunketeers. I tip my hat to Eli Roth playing along with the joke and readily admit that I was fooled…although I now feel a whole lot better knowing that this trailer doesn’t represent an actual project. The original article follows.
For a little while there, it looked likeEli Rothhad vanished. Although he worked steadily as a producer in the years after the (surprisingly smart and deeply underrated)Hostel: Part IIdied a quick death at the box office, it took him a long time to return to the director’s chair. And now, he’s starting to pump movies out left and right. His cannibal movie throwbackThe Green Infernodivided audiences. His quasi-home invasion thrillerKnock Knockriled up the corner of the film world that saw it. He’s set todirect Bruce Willis in theDeath WishremakeandJim Carrey inAleister Arcane. Dare we call this a comeback? Can any of these new projects act as an apology for thatdreadfulCabin Feverremakehe allowed into the world?
Now we can add another movie to that pile. It seems that Roth has been working on a secret project calledMission: Fearand he’s personally unleashed the first teaser upon the internet.
Let’s just go ahead and get this out of the way right now: theMission: Fearteaser is total garbage. It looks like it was cobbled together by a middle schooler with access to an ancient version of Adobe After Effects. There is no footage from the film. No suggestion of a premise. Even the voice over is, for lack of a more elegant phrase, complete and total crap. The only thing we can glean from this thing is that Roth is attached to a horror movie that apparently takes place in space that will be released inApril 2017. It’s quite clear Roth whipped this thing up on his own because he had some time to kill.
As bad as this teaser is, consider my interest piqued. Roth has made movies I’ve liked and movies I’ve despised, but the man has the habit of not repeating himself. Even though he operates within the horror genre, he leaps between different styles and forms and always seems interested in tryingsomethingnew, even when it doesn’t work at all. I remain interested in him as a filmmaker and it’s going to take another debacle on the level ofThe Green Infernoto really shake me.
It should also be noted that the teaser never specifically says that Roth is directingMission: Fear, so he could very well be serving as a producer on someone else’s film. If this is a case, your guess is as good as mine about what we can expect. After all, he produced the exceptionalThe Last Exorcismand the equally chillingThe Sacrament! But he also producedAftershockand the less said about that, the better.
