Eli Roth

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Roth at the premiere of Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Eli Raphael Roth (born April 18, 1972 in Newton , Massachusetts ) is an American director , screenwriter , producer and actor . His best-known works are the low-budget horror film Cabin Fever , for which he wrote the screenplay, directed, worked as a producer and took on a small role himself, and the films Hostel and Hostel 2 , for which he wrote and directed the screenplay .

Life

Eli Roth was born in Newton , Massachusetts , and grew up in a Jewish family. His grandparents had emigrated from Poland , Russia and Austria . He has two brothers, Adam and Gabe. His brother Adam played a supporting role in his first film, Cabin Fever . The film Alien by Ridley Scott motivated Roth to make films himself. He made numerous short films with his brothers. After his school career he studied film at New York University and got smaller jobs in Hollywood. He also assisted director David Lynch with short films for his website. In the early 1990s he made the short film Restaurant Dogs , a tribute to Quentin Tarantino's 1992 film Reservoir Dogs . In 1995, he received a nomination for the Student Academy Award for the film .

In the mid-1990s, he and his friend Randy Pearlstein , also a film student, wrote the screenplay for Cabin Fever , his feature film debut. With the horror film Hostel from 2005, he achieved a commercial success, which despite its R rating was able to occupy first place in the US box office. In addition, the film was surprisingly positively received by US critics, which is rather unusual for the genre of torture porn (the term for horror films in which graphic torture scenes are the focus). The continuation Hostel 2 from 2007, however, was largely rated negatively. In Germany, the extended version of the film is indexed and confiscated nationwide. Roth wrote and produced the martial arts film The Man with the Iron Fists , directed by rapper RZA .

Roth is friends with Quentin Tarantino and starred in his films Death Proof and Inglourious Basterds . In the latter, he took on the role of the "Bear Jew" who massacred the Nazis. Tarantino produced his hostel films. Roth directed the short film Stolz der Nation with Daniel Brühl as Frederick Zoller for Inglourious Basterds . He also shot the trailer for the fictional film Thanksgiving , which can be seen in the double feature Grindhouse .

Eli Roth often lets other well-known directors appear in his films whose films he likes. The Japanese director Takashi Miike ( Audition , Ichi the Killer ) has a guest appearance in Hostel . The Italian filmmaker Ruggero Deodato , director of the scandalous film Naked and Mangled ( Cannibal Holocaust ), also has a guest role in Hostel 2 . In the short film Pride of the Nation 's Bo Svenson to see who starred in Inglorious Bastards played, the "inspiration" of Tarantino's movie.

At the beginning of March 2018, the remake of A Man Sees Red, already shot by Roth, was released in American cinemas. Bruce Willis can be seen in the main role .

Roth is involved in the animal rights organization PETA against cruelty to animals. On October 27, 2012, Roth opened the ghost train club Eli Roth's Goretorium in Las Vegas , which had to close again a year later.

In 2014 Roth married the Chilean actress and model Lorenza Izzo . In July 2018, they announced their split.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1996: Has Two Faces (The Mirror Has Two Faces) (Actor)
  • 1999: Terror Firmer (Actor)
  • 1999: Chowdaheads (short film) (director)
  • 2000: Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV (Actor)
  • 2002: Cabin Fever (Director, Screenplay, Production, Actor)
  • 2003: The Rotten Fruit (short film) (Director, Screenplay, Production)
  • 2004: Tales from the Crapper (actor)
  • 2005: 2001 Maniacs (Production, Actor)
  • 2005: Hostel (Director, Screenplay, Production)
  • 2006: Southland Tales (actor)
  • 2007: Hostel 2 (Hostel: Part II) (Director, Screenplay, Production)
  • 2007: Grindhouse : Thanksgiving (fake trailer) (director, screenplay, actor)
  • 2007: Death Proof (Grindhouse: Death Proof) (Actor)
  • 2009: Inglourious Basterds (actor, also director of the film-within-a-film segment Pride of the Nation )
  • 2010: The Last Exorcism (The Last Exorcism) (production)
  • 2010: Piranha 3D (Actor)
  • 2012: Rock of Ages (Actor)
  • 2012: Aftershock - Hell after the quake (screenplay, production, actor)
  • 2012: The Man with the Iron Fists (Script, Production)
  • 2013: The Green Inferno (Director, Screenplay, Production)
  • 2014: Clown (production, actor)
  • 2014: The Stranger (Production)
  • 2015: The Man with the Iron Fists 2 (executive producer)
  • 2015: Knock Knock (Director, Screenplay, Production)
  • 2015: Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film (Actor)
  • 2016: Cabin Fever: New Outbreak (executive producer)
  • 2018: Death Wish (Director)
  • 2018: The house of the mysterious clocks (The House with a Clock in Its Walls) (Director, Actor)
  • 2019: Halloween Haunt (Haunt) (Production)

Web links

Commons : Eli Roth  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Boston.com: The Family Cut Up
  2. Eli Roth: 'The Man With the Iron Fists' Is the 'Star Wars' of Kung-Fu Movies
  3. schnittberichte.com, accessed on April 20, 2017
  4. Eli Roth fights against violence against animals ( memento of the original from October 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.peta.de
  5. Eli Roth's 'Goretorium' Bringing Horror To Las Vegas ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed May 1, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deadline.com
  6. Eli Roth to open haunted house, Goretorium, in Las Vegas ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed May 1, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fangoria.com
  7. http://lasvegassun.com/vegasdeluxe/2013/sep/30/eli-roths-goretorium-strip-close-oct-2-after-one-y/
  8. https://www.promiflash.de/news/2018/07/17/nach-vier-jahren-peaches-geldof-ex-eli-roth-will-scheid.html