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January 22, 2006

Scare Quotes

In this week's edition of Blurb Racket—the Gelf feature in which we take a close look at those critic blurbs that are a fixture of ads for movies—see breakdowns of blurbs for The White Countess, The Ringer, The Producers, and more. This week's winner of the Bogus Blurb of the Week award comes in an ad for Hostel:

Horrorchannel.com: "It's been a while since we've had a director's name to put next to the likes of Romero, Argento, Carpenter and Craven …
but now is the time to make room on that list for Eli Roth."
Gelf was unable to find the above quote anywhere; the review linked from Horror Channel's homepage says, "I didn't find Hostel to be very scary at all." Update: As a reader pointed out, Horrorchannel.com has multiple reviews of the film. Another does contain the quote used in the ad blurb. But then, that's hardly the take of Horrorchannel.com—only that of one of its three reviewers.







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