'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy's horror movie: There's no love story, it's just straight-up horror. And it's so well-done. It moves at a slow pace, but it's really terrific.

For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit.

I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.

Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

Even the European critics... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far.

If someone gets up and walks out of the movie, it means it's really affected them.

I like movies like 'Mother's Day', where you watch it, and you've liked it for years as a horror movie.