Eli Roth Biography (2)

Eli Roth has been obsessed with horror films ever since he dismembered his brothers in the straight-to-video epic Splatter on the Linoleum, which he directed at age 11. Roth graduated from the NYU Film School with high honors and has received awards for his directing and animation. His live action thesis film Restaurant Dogs was a winner in the 1995 Student Academy Awards, much to the chagrin of the entire NYU faculty, who had labeled the film "sophomoric, overtly offensive and gratuitously violent."

In 1999, Roth co-created Chowdaheads, an animated series for Mandalay Entertainment and WCW (World Championship Wrestling). Roth directed, produced, animated and co-wrote the series of shorts for the #1 rated TNT show WCW Monday Nitro. In 2000, Roth co-created the stop motion animation series The Rotten Fruit. The Rotten Fruit was critically praised in Movieline, Variety, The LA Times, and Time Magazine. However, Time Magazine Digital panned the show, calling it "sophomoric, overtly offensive, and gratuitously violent". He is the co-founder of The Snake Pit, an animation studio in Burbank, where he directed, produced, shot and animated the short films, overseeing a crew of almost 20 artists.

As a producer, Roth worked very closely with filmmaker David Lynch, producing a number of Lynch-directed short films for the director's new site, DavidLynch.com. Roth has produced, photographed and acted in segments with Naomi Watts and David Lynch. Roth spent six years researching a project for Lynch and composer Angelo Badalamenti that they plan to write for Broadway later this year.

In 2001, Roth co-wrote The Extra, for Bill Mechanic's Pandemonium Pictures, a theatrical feature produced by and starring Golden Globe-winner Camryn Manheim. Roth recently founded Dragonfly Entertainment, a company that will produce mainstream genre films, television, music, books, and merchandise. Roth is currently in pre-production on two horror films and a horror television series, as well as a stop-motion feature called Camp Death, which he predicts will be the most "sophomoric, overtly offensive and gratuitously violent" animated film of all time.

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