"'My agent had told me that he was going to make me the Janet Gaynor of England - I was going to play all the sweet roles. Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.'- Ida Lupino, director of The Hitch-Hiker"
Eli Roth
Time to vote for Scary Stud of the Year 2009
By Superheidi on January 4th, 2010
It's time to vote for Scary Stud of the Year 2009! Stroll down memory lane with our funny, sexy, charming scary studs of 2009 and let us know which one you think deserves the crown. Voting ends January 31, 2010.*
Dani Filth, Billy Garberina, Robert Patrick, Eli Roth, Corin Nemec, Mike J. Nelson, Tom Atkins, and Scott Norton.
Mr. September: Eli Roth
By Superheidi on September 9th, 2009
Interview by Staci Layne Wilson
Eli Roth is a cutie — he's got those dark-chocolate brown eyes and a sweet smile that could charm even the most hard-hearted Hannah. But Roth is also a complete, total and utter Basterd. He's best-known for making some of the most violent, grisly, and controversial horror movies of the 00's. His feature length horror films Hostel and Hostel II shocked the mainstream, as did his over-the-top fake movie trailer for Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse double-dip (in his slasher-trailer Thanksgiving, Roth gives 'cheerleader splits' and 'stuffing the turkey' whole new meanings). He’s also gearing up make a feature-length version of Thanksgiving and a PG-13 creature-feature called Endangered Species.
So what's a nice boy like Eli doing in Tarantino's latest movie, Iglourious Basterds? Why, killing Nazis, of course! And not just killing them… he's beating, scalping, burning, and basically putting on the hurt in every way imaginable as a psychotic soldier known as "The Bear-Jew". Pretty/Scary caught up with the director-turned-actor, and here is what he had to say...
