Eli Roth Details Magazine

Q&A: Eli Roth: The up-and-coming horror mastermind Eli Roth talks about Hostel: Part II and what scares the daylights out of him in the new issue of Details Magazine:

On switching to female victims for the Hostel sequel: “It was a sequel, so we had to take it up a notch. Torturing women is inherently more horrible.�

On what gives him nightmares: “I don’t need nightmares – I have FOX News.�

On casting unknowns: “In a good horror movie, the scare is the star of the show. Cast too many recognizable faces and that gets blurred. It wouldn’t be as frightening to watch John Travolta get chopped up with a power saw because you wouldn’t really believe it was real.�

On his ideal leading lady: “Kate Hudson. I’d love to torture her. But then again, sitting through one of her romantic comedies is its own form of torture.�

The June/July issue of Details hits newsstands in NY and LA today, and nationwide on June 5, 2007