Tag: Eli Roth
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Eli Roth’s ‘Hostel’ Was Inspired By a Horrifying Murder Website
Torture horror describes such a grisly subgenre of movies. When you ask a horror fan what their favorite torture horror film is, there’s a good chance that Hostel will come up once or twice. Eli Roth released Hostel in 2005 and led the charge for a new wave of horror movies that featured extensive scenes…
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Eli Roth’s ‘Thanksgiving’: Everything We Know About the Holiday Slasher
Since 2007, when he created a mock trailer for the movie Grindhouse, Eli Roth has been waiting for the right opportunity to create a feature-length movie based on the fake trailer. The original trailer is filled to the brim with terrible puns, extremely cheesy kill scenes and body reveals in true Eli Roth fashion. Roth…
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Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving Release Date, Cast, Plot, Trailer, And More Info
Every major holiday could stand to have a slasher movie themed around it, especially one with a sunny disposition masquerading the grim truth behind it like Thanksgiving. Such was Eli Roth’s thinking when he made his fake “Thanksgiving” movie trailer for Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s “Grindhouse” experiment back in 2007. Roth’s original short is…
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‘Fright Krewe’ – Release Date, Cast, Plot, and What to Expect
A name synonymous with high-quality, popular animation projects, DreamWorks has offered some of the biggest, most successful animated franchises like Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, Shrek, and many more. While their work has always been praised for creating fantastical worlds using imaginative, immersive animation and covers comedy, adventure, drama, and even action,…
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Eli Roth Reveals Why It Took 15 Years to Bring Thanksgiving to Big Screen
Fifteen years after the fake trailer first appeared in Grindhouse horror aficionado Eli Roth is finally turning Thanksgiving into a feature-length movie. During a recent interview with Collider’s Christina Radish for his upcoming animated YA horror series Fright Krewe, Roth was also able to share some delicious morsels about his upcoming feast of a film.…
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Saw Movies Ranked, from ‘Saw’ (2004) to ‘Saw X’
Whether you’re a passionate John Kramer devotee or a haughty cinephile dismissing Jigsaw’s legacy as so-called “torture porn,” the “Saw” franchise absolutely got to you. Yes, you.Back in theaters for the 2023 Halloween season, James Wan and Leigh Whannell’s indie shocker-turned-big budget ringer redefined splatter films for the post-9/11 masses and kicked off a resurgence…
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20 Years Ago, The Low Budget Box Office Hit Cabin Fever Launched Eli Roth’s Career
(Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.)”I wrote that movie when I was 22 and when I wrote it, everyone told me, ‘This will never get made, that is a piece of s*** and…
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‘Borderlands’ Sets Summer 2024 Release, ‘Dirty Dancing’ Sequel Delayed as Lionsgate Shuffles Calendar
Lionsgate is making moves to its release calendar, including dating the video game feature Borderlands for summer 2024 and pushing dates for Dirty Dancing sequel and its prequel to Wonder.Borderlands is now set to bow on Aug. 9, 2024. The film hails from director Eli Roth, and also underwent additional photography from Deadpool filmmaker Tim…
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‘Jaws’ Isn’t the Scariest Fourth of July Movie, This Is
It seems that there is a horror film for every holiday. Halloween has, well, Halloween, along with many others. Thanksgiving has the strange ThanksKilling movies, and soon, Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving. Christmas has Black Christmas, Silent Night, Deadly Night, Gremlins, and more. There’s also a New Year’s Evil, Valentine, and April Fool’s Day. The list goes…
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‘The Idol’ Episode 5, ‘Jocelyn Forever,’ Better Be the End — Spoilers
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “The Idol” Episode 5, “Jocelyn Forever,” including the ending.]Tucked within a dull, dumbfounding finale, there’s one line that, I think, speaks to the general point “The Idol” has been trying to make. Thankfully, it’s shared by the loudest person in the room. Andrew Finkelstein hasn’t been around…