Eli Roth Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actor , Producer , Director more
Birth name Eli Raphael Roth
Nationality American
Birth April 18, 1972 (Boston, Massachusetts – United States)

BIOGRAPHY
Eli Roth developed a passion for horror films very early on: it was after seeing Alien , the Eighth Passenger , when he was eight years old, that he decided to be a director. He shot numerous short films in Super 8 with the help of his brothers, before joining the cinema program at the University of New York, from which he graduated in 1995. The same year, he co-wrote with his friend Randy Pearlstein wrote the script for Cabin Fever , but they didn’t get any funding. For four years, he worked odd jobs, including extras for films. In 1999, he moved to Los Angeles where he met David Lynch , for whom he became a production assistant for a time, managing the content of the filmmaker’s website.

The turning point came in 2001, where he finally raised the necessary funds intended for the production of Cabin Fever . Benefiting from excellent word of mouth, the film achieved considerable success and became the biggest success for Lion’s Gate , the film’s production house. He also attracted the attention of Quentin Tarantino , who decided to sponsor him. After creating Raw Nerve with Boaz Yakin and Scott Spiegel , a production company specializing in horror films, he set about directing Hostel : despite very heated controversies, it was a resounding success. In 2005, he gave it a sequel, Hostel – Chapter II , before being entrusted by Tarantino with the production of a false advertisement in the diptych Grindhouse . Their collaboration continues, since he makes an appearance in Boulevard of Death in 2007, the second part of Grindhouse , then in Inglourious Basterds in 2009 where he plays, alongside Brad Pitt , Sergeant Donny Donowitz, one of the ” bastards” Nazi hunters, terribly feared by his enemies, particularly because of the baseball bat he usually carries around with him. Roth also directed a short mock Nazi propaganda film, supposedly orchestrated by Joseph Goebbels, which Tarantino inserted into the film. After a few cameos in Piranha 3D in 2010, in Seth Rogen ‘s documentary on San Diego ComicCon, or in Rock Forever by Adam Shankman , in 2012 he wrote The Man with the Iron Fists for RZA

. It was only in 2013 that he returned to directing with The Green Inferno , co-written with Guillermo Amoedo , whom he met on the set of Aftershock . It is a disaster film where young activists who came to prevent the establishment of an oil company crash a plane in the middle of the Amazon and find themselves confronted by a cannibalistic tribe. Eli Roth here confirms his reputation as a director of gory and violent horror films.

Eli Roth nevertheless seeks to diversify, and thus tackles Knock Knock , a remake of The Seducers by Peter S. Traynor , in which a married man sees his life destroyed in a few hours by two young girls with an innocent appearance, but which turn out to be cruel and dangerous. He found Amoedo there for the screenplay, and for the first time offered the main role to a star, Keanu Reeves .