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Eli Roth
Eli Roth began shooting Super 8 films at the age of eight, after watching Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) and vomiting, and deciding he wanted to be a producer/director. With his brothers and friends, ketchup for blood and his father's power tools, he made over fifty short films before attending film school at N.Y.U., where he won a student Academy Award and graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1994. He worked in film and theater production in New York City for many years, doing every job from production assistant to assistant editor to assistant to the director. At the age of 20 Roth was development head for producer Fred Zollo, a position he soon left to write full time. To earn a living, Roth did budgets and schedules for the films A Price Above Rubies (1998) and Illuminata (1998) and often worked as a stand-in, where he could watch directors work with the actors. In 1995, Roth co-wrote the script that would eventually become Cabin Fever (2002) with friend Randy Pearlstein, and the two spent many years unsuccessfully trying to get the film financed. Roth left New York in 1999 to live in Los Angeles, and within four months got funding for his animation series Chowdaheads (1999). Roth and friend Noah Belson ( Cabin Fever (2002)'s Guitar Man) wrote and voiced the episodes, which Roth produced, directed and designed. The episodes were due to run on W.C.W.'s #1 rated series "WCW Monday Nitro" (1995) but the C.E.O. was fired a day before they were scheduled to air, and the episodes never ran. Roth used the episodes to set up a stop motion series called The Rotten Fruit (2003) (V) which he produced, directed and animated, as well as co-wrote and voiced with friend Belson. Between the two animated series, Roth worked closely with director David Lynch, producing content for the website davidlynch.com. In 2001, Roth filmed Cabin Fever (2002) on a shoestring budget of $1.5 million, with private equity he and his producers raised from friends and family. The film was the subject of a bidding war at the 2002 Toronto Film Festival, eventually won by Lion's Gate, instantly doubling their investors' money. It went on to not only be the highest grossing film for Lion's Gate in 2003, but the most profitable horror film released that year, garnering critical acclaim from The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Empire Magazine, and such filmmakers as Peter Jackson, Quentin Tarantino and Tobe Hooper . Roth used the film's success to launch a slew of projects, including Scavenger Hunt, a teen comedy he will write and direct for Universal Studios, and The Box, a horror thriller he is co-writing with Richard Kelly that Roth will also direct. In May of 2003, Roth joined forces with filmmakers Boaz Yakin, Scott Spiegel, and Greenestreet Films in New York to form Raw Nerve, LLC, a new production company that will produce 3-5 intense, scary, lower budget horror films annually.
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Roth warns horror fans about new maze attraction -
2 August 2011
-Moviemaker Eli Roth has warned horror fans not to take their kids into his maze of terror during Universal Studios theme park's Halloween celebrations this year (11) - because the attraction is strictly R-rated.-The Hostel director has been working on the idea wi
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Roth defends apologetic Crowe over anti-Semitism fuss -
10 June 2011
-Inglourious Basterds star Eli Roth has come to the defence of Russell Crowe over a Jewish joke that went too far.-Gladiator star Crowe appeared to be attacking Jewish parents who circumcise their kids in a recent rant on Twitter.com, branding the practice "barbar
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Roth blasts horror film critics -
6 September 2010
-Director Eli Roth has slammed critics of his horror films, accusing reviewers of failing to "understand" his movies.-
-The actor/filmmaker gained notoriety with his graphic 2005 slasher movie Hostel, which provoked a storm of controversy and led some film critics
Eli Roth - what members say
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Come on people! 22 April 2004
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FOR THE LAST TIME IDIOTS, THIS ISNT A TARENTINO FILM!!! 18 May 2006
review by A customer from Essex
Garbage. 8 June 2007
Eli Roth - filmography
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Piranha - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Ving Rhames, Elisabeth Shue
Director: Alexandre Aja
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SWITCHBLADE ROMANCE and HILLS HAVE EYES director Alexandre Aja pays homage to the films that made him fall in love with the horror genre by helming this comedic remake of director Joe Dante's 1978 JAWSs parody. Lake Victoria may look peaceful, but beneath the placid waters of this painterly lake ..read more »
 
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Don't Look Up
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Eli Roth, Henry Thomas, Elena Satine
Director: Fruit Chan
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Marcus Reed is a Los Angeles based director who was once lauded as a wunderkind until his sensitivity to paranormal visions brought his career to a screeching halt. He is given a second chance by producer, Josh Petri, to direct a film based on a medieval Romanian folk tale. In the folk tale, a ..read more »
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Inglourious Basterds
(2009)
Starring: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent
Director: Quentin Tarantino
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Inglourious Basterds begins in German-occupied France, where Shoshanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of ..read more »
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from 4,690 members
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Inglourious Basterds - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent
Director: Quentin Tarantino
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Inglourious Basterds begins in German-occupied France, where Shoshanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of ..read more »
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from 701 members
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Hostel Part 2 - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Ruggero Deodato, Edwige Fenech, Luc Merenda
Director: Eli Roth
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With only one film under his belt and the endorsement of Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth became a virtual horror brand with Hostel, a yarn about a group of thrill-seeking American college dudes backpacking through Europe, only to be seduced into a Slovakian money-for-torture ring where they became the ..read more »
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from 2,809 members
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Hostel
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Lenka Vlasakova
Director: Eli Roth
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Two young Americans, backpacking through Europe, find themsleves lured in as victims of a murder-for-profit business... Hostel is a dark, bloody exploration of torture and evil.
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from 38,135 members
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Cabin Fever
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Jordan Ladd, Rider Strong, James DeBello
Director: Eli Roth
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Eli Roth makes an auspicious debut with CABIN FEVER. Taking an otherwise traditional set up for a horror film, Roth infuses it with enough energy and originality to make it feel completely fresh. Five friends, just finished with college finals, head for a cabin in the woods to party and embrace ..read more »
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from 19,027 members
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Cabin Fever
(2002)
Starring: Jordan Ladd, Rider Strong, James DeBello
Director: Eli Roth
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Eli Roth makes an auspicious debut with CABIN FEVER. Taking an otherwise traditional set up for a horror film, Roth infuses it with enough energy and originality to make it feel completely fresh. Five friends, just finished with college finals, head for a cabin in the woods to party and embrace ..read more »
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Eli Roth facts
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...licks, with an original concept (a fleash eating diesease a the evil).
This is Eli Roth's first horror movie, it was low budget, and he's done a damn good job.
Its a ...
