Gather 'round, pity-partiers:

Eli Roth, the director of the relentlessly gruesome "Hostel" movies, is aiming for a family crowd with his next project.

Roth told reporters on Wednesday he is two weeks away from finishing a script for a science-fiction action film inspired by the mainstream hits "Cloverfield" and "Transformers."

"This will be my first big-budget, PG-13, mass-destruction movie," he said backstage at the music industry's NME Awards in Los Angeles. "I went total chaos and pandemonium..."

"I feel like I pushed the violence in R movies about as far as I can push it. I feel like I'm bled out. I wanna switch it up," said the 36-year-old protege of Quentin Tarantino.

Whew! After directing three whole movies in six years, he's trying to break out of his rut. Wow. Hey, you know what Howard Hawks did after his first three movies? He took a lunch break.