![]() ![]() The Boston native and occasional actor (he portrays a vicious Nazi hunter nicknamed “the Bear Jew” in Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds) has directed the first non-horror film of his career: an adaptation of John Bellairs’s gothic kids lit classic, The House With a Clock in Its Walls. ![]() His latest movie, however, arrives as something of a career curveball. It’s all earned Roth a reputation for being “crassly provocative” and “ punishment obsessed.” ![]() His most popular films, Cabin Fever (2002) and the Hostel franchise, are showcases for over-the-top violence spiked with black humor. In Thanksgiving, a fictitious slasher-flick trailer that Roth filmed for the Quentin Tarantino-Robert Rodriguez horror feature Grindhouse, a cheerleader is shown bouncing on a trampoline pantyless then getting stabbed in the vulva. To wit: In the director’s 2013 gore-fest The Green Inferno, a primary character has his eyeballs plucked out before being torn limb from limb and eaten alive by Amazonian rain-forest cannibals. Although he disavows any association with the genre and blanches at its mere mention, writer-director Eli Roth has become synonymous with so-called “torture porn” horror movies. ![]()
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