At a press conference earlier today, controversial director Eli Roth spoke about the upcoming DVD release of Hostel II, and took the time to address his concerns about piracy that he had previously voiced when Hostel II was still in theaters. While he may have sounded like a bit of a sore loser last time, this go-around Roth made a pretty reasonable argument.

The way he explained it, his movies are aimed primarily at teens and college kids, which coincidentally have the highest piracy rates across the demographics. Roth claims the bootlegged workprint that circulated around the net hurt him most internationally, knocking sales down by about 20% (he reached this figure by estimating the number of downloads of the bootleg copy).

That said, Roth acknowledges that the piracy issue doesn't effect the DVD sales as much as the theatrical take, and that they pack the DVDs with as much as possible in order to counteract potential bootleggers. He also admitted that Hostel II already made back its low-end budget threefold, and that the piracy effects others working on the film much more than himself.

Most of his venom though was directed at the critics who used the incomplete print to review the movie - and openly admitted as much. And on that point I've got to agree with him. Say what you will about the "gore porn" fad and Roth's over-the-top violence, it's not very ethical for a critic to review a film based on an incomplete version of the movie, no matter how much you personally dislike the director.

To his credit, Roth also owned up on a variety of other reasons Hostel II might have underperformed on the box office - namely that public taste goes in cycles and maybe, just maybe, interest in slasher films had waned. Along with the mistimed summer release date, Roth acknowledges that this probably "had the most to do with it."

Roth also gave some insight into his next project, a compilation of fake trailers entitled Trailer Trash. After his work on the fake trailer "Thanksgiving" for his pal Tarantino's Grindhouse,