Eli Roth's movies may scare us silly, but his Semetic good looks and surprisingly buff bod prompt an entirely different primal reaction. The son of an artist and a Harvard psychology professor, Roth attended film school at NYU, then made tiny or uncredited appearances in a few movies, and worked odd jobs in the film industry for nearly a decade before writing and directing the skin disease scarefest Cabin Fever (2001). Eli wrote that movie he wrote while working as a production assistant on Howard Stern's Private Parts (1997). We'd like to assist Eli in producing some stuff from his private parts! That gorefest, in which he cameoed as a character named Justin, made Eli the up and coming horror director in Hollywood. His sometimes derided as torture porn followup films, Hostel (2005) and Hostel: Part II (2007), were massive box-office hits, though as an actor Eli's probably best known for appearing in his pal Quentin Tarantino's movies, like Inglorious Basterds (2009) where he packed on nearly thirty pounds of muscle to play the wifebeater wearing, baseball bat wielding Nazi hunter Donnie "The Bear Jew" Donowitz. Here at Skin Central, we love Jewish bears! Or gentile twinks, either way. Our best look at Eli came in the Chilean disaster movie Aftershock (2012). We get a rare glimpse of the Roth rump roast swimming naked in a pool. What a scream-boat! It's shocking that a screenwriter is in that great shape. Eli has had some more hits behind the camera, most notably the werewolf show Hemlock Grove, the cannibal thriller The Green Inferno (2013), the Keanu Reeves led erotic thriller Knock Knock (2015), and in a serious change of pace the Jack Black kid's flick The House with a Clock in Its Walls, Around Halloween time, you may also catch him on AMC, talking about all his favorite scary movies as the host of Eli Roth's History of Horror. Hopefully the man who scares our pants off goes pantsless on screen!
