Fresh off his stint as Sgt. Donnie Donowitz in Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds, Eli Roth is set to make a return to directing with not one, but two films he hopes to shoot back-to-back. One is a big-budget sci-fi disaster extravaganza, and the other is a quick and dirty callback to his fake trailer from Grindhouse, Thanksgiving. Roth is hoping to sell a studio on the larger project and wrap it up early, using the remaining time and money to whip out his ode to holiday slashers.

As much fun as his larger project could be, Eli Roth was responsible for the best horror movie of the past five years so I’m eagerly anticipating his return to the genre. I don’t fault today’s remakes of slasher classics considering most of the original films were almost as vapid. What I do miss are the lesser-known degenerates of the sub-genre, squalid masterpieces like Pieces and Mother’s Day. If you had to choose, which of the two would you most be interested in; the big-budget disaster movie, or the cheap slasher?