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 and extremely cheesy kill scenes and body reveals in true Eli Roth fashion. Roth made his directorial debut with the 2002 movie Cabin Fever, which he wrote with his college roommate in the late 90s. Later, when he created Hostel in 2005, his name became inextricably linked with the gritty slasher subgenre of horror films. He has since been added to a list of other independent directors known as “The Splat Pack,” featuring filmmakers who create highly violent movies on a low budget. Along with his writing and directing abilities, Roth is also a talented actor, making appearances in most, if not all of his movies. His most notable performance is in Quentin Tarantino’s Ingluorious Basterds, as Donny “The Bear Jew” Donowitz, for which he received a Critics Choice Movie Award.