"I Loved It": Alex Ross Perry Praises Eli Roth's "Disgusting, Vile, Morally Dubious" Horror 'The Green Inferno'

"Queen of Earth" and "Listen Up Philip" writer/director Alex Ross Perry is generally known for a particular brand of movie: small scale, intimate and focused on relationships with a laser like intensity. He's not the first person you'd expect to have any inclinations toward horror, but in a rather inspired move, The Talkhouse recruited the filmmaker to pen a piece about Eli Roth's "The Green Inferno," and it's pretty great.

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The perceptive piece finds Perry recalling meeting Roth while working at fabled, since shuttered New York City video rental institution Kim's Video shortly after the release of "Hostel" which the Perry says he "enjoyed...tremendously," and discovering that Roth's oeuvre tends to focus on "the unbridled embrace of death and dismemberment, total disregard for human life or decency and unflinching depiction of very real,...