Eli Roth
Eli Roth
Eli Raphael Rothis an American film director, producer, writer and actor. He is known for directing the horror film Hostel and its sequel, Hostel: Part II. He is also known for his role as Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz in Quentin Tarantino's war film Inglourious Basterds for which he won both a SAG Awardand a BFCA Critic's Choice Award. Journalists have included him in a group of filmmakers dubbed the Splat Pack for their explicitly violent and bloody horror films...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth18 April 1972
CityNewton, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering, 'When do I put my arm around her?'
I want to have an ending where people say: "That's the most shocking ending I've ever seen in a mainstream horror film."
It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one.
People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.
I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.
Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering , 'When do I put my arm around her?'
I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.
I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.
When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.
You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'
People don't enjoy violence in real life, but they love it in their movies. And I think a lot of studio horror movies don't want to offend anybody. If there's anything that's too far out there, they test it and if it offends people, they take it out. But Open Water , Wolf Creek , The Devil's Rejects - these are movies made outside of the studio system, that don't have a happy ending. (The studios and critics) forget that that's what people are paying for - to be terrified and disturbed.
What I've always thought I would do is make a bunch of movies and then stop to teach for awhile. And then just teach at film schools - you know, teach children.
When you make a film for a million and a half dollars and it opens at 20 million, the next question out of everyone's mouth is, 'When's the next one, when's the next one, when's the next one?'
When someone throws up while watching one of your movies, it's like a standing ovation.