Eli Roth, who is known for creating a new type of horror movies, almost died a death worse than some of the ones he has come up with for his films Cabin Fever and Hostel I & II. The Inglourious Basterds’ star will be next seen in Piranha 3D, but it was different type of fish that almost killed The Bear Jew. Eli Roth Tweeted what happened to him on a week and a half ago while he was on vacation in Mexico.
It’s kind of weird to put into 140 characters, but in a nutshell I was in an ocean kayak in open water that suddenly sank. It had a hole.
I was about a mile from the shore, behind a huge rocky island. I had to swim to the island and got pulled under the water and nearly hit it
I scrambled up and got about 200 sea urchin pins in the bottom of my feet and my palms. The rock was covered in crabs. It was like a scene out of Starship Troopers. I screamed for help until a fisherman saved me. This was in Mexico. I do not speak much Spanish.
The doctor couldn’t anesthetize my foot because it would swell too much. She held up a needle and tweezers and simply said “Be brave.”
My vacation from there pretty much turned into Hostel 3. The doctor couldn’t get them all in 90 mins, so a friend continued for 6 hours.
So now I’m hobbling around. I still have sea urchin spikes in my feet & palms. I can’t get them out and have to wait for them to dissolve.
It was honestly the most painful experience I’ve ever had in my life. I just had to grit my teeth and bear it while they picked them out.
I tried to upload a photo of my feet back can’t seem to get my computer and phone in sync. It’s pretty gnarly. Wish I’d recorded my screams
I started the year nearly melting and finished it nearly drowning. Plus I had been kayaking so I was exhausted when it sank.
I’ve just been resting, taking antibiotics, soaking my feet. My hands are healing up but my feet are in rough shape.
The best part was when I googled “sea urchins” and it said that they are poisonous, but if you get 1 spike, you’ll be fine. I had over 200.
Luckily, the crabs were scared of this Bear Jew on their rock and they’d back away. But then a wave would come and displace everyone.
My feet and hands were such a mess I couldn’t walk – I had to crab-walk on my butt around the rock to find an opening where I could jump in
Two days later 4 baby sharks were spotted near where I was stranded. And where there are babies…
I got back to shore and this rich tourist was trying to introduce me to his family. I was like “Um, pardon me, I almost just died…”
I’m standing there, dripping and bleeding, and he’s drunk and is like “Hey, meet my son!” The son extends his hand. The son is also drunk.
I actually said “I’m sorry, I can’t shake your hand, I don’t really have any skin there right now. Which way’s the hospital?”
Thankfully, Geraldine the “Camera Angel” met me at the clinic to translate. She held my head through the whole thing. She is truly an angel
I spent the next 5 days “heavily medicated”, listening to Cheech & Chong. That worked wonders.
I have spoken with Eli and he told me his feet hurt him really badly and he is banged up, but that he is fine. He also told me that that above picture doesn’t capture all the details because he also had sea urchin spikes on and in between his toes. Major ouch, but he is on some good pain killers so that is helping him out.
We can see how well he is recovering tonight when he is a presenter at The People’s Choice Awards on CBS at 8p!
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The sequel to Eli Roth’s first extraordinary film Cabin Fever has been in the works for years and now we are finally getting to see the trailer for Cabin Fever 2. I personally think the movie looks like it is going to be so bad that it will bloody good. I don’t think the movie will come close to getting the same admiration I had for the original one, but I sure as heck can’t wait to see it. I just love cheesy horror movies that don’t take themselves seriously and are unnecessarily so gory that make you laugh out loud. Now the director of the sequel who took over for Eli Roth (who had nothing to do with the movie), Ti West has reportedly disowned himself from the movie after Lionsgate recut the movie will disagree with my views, but I still think it looks like it is going to be a fun movie to watch when you need a good laugh. So when this movie comes out on February 16th I will run out and buy it on DVD because you know it is the type of movie you will have to view over and over again to re-watch all the stupid overdone death scenes and be in hysterics over with your friends!!! Heck I have re-watched the trailer a few times just to laugh at how much ridiculous fun it looks to be!!!
BTW Eli Roth’s Cabin Fever will be released on Blu-ray the same day with an unrated director’s cut of the film (which I’ve seen and is so much better) and new audio commentary with Eli and the cast.
Following the footsteps of his Inglourious Basterd Brad Pitt, Quentin Tarantino is a doing a commercial for Japan’s Softbank in Japanese. The Oscar winning director is playing Uncle Tara-chan in the White Family commercials for mobile carrier according to Heat Vision. Brad Pitt and QT were in Japan to promote Inglourious Basterds that opens on November 20th, the same day the commercials will start airing there, and that is when he filmed the ad. Is it just me or does Quentin look like he is having a blast going in front of the camera? He looks like a kid in candy store as he wears his black kimono speaking Japanese. You can tell he is enjoying every second of it!
Talking about director’s going in front of the camera, Eli Roth told Marc Malkin that Brad Pitt and him can’t wait to do a prequel for Inglourious Basterds. They are just waiting for Japan’s latest commercial star to finish writing it.
“Everybody would drop whatever they’re doing to go back to work with Quentin,” Pitt’s Basterds costar Eli Roth told us at the Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards presented by Movieline.com in Hollywood. “All the time, Brad says, ‘Prequel, prequel!’ All the ‘basterds’ would jump on it in a second.”
All that’s left is the green light from Tarantino. “He has most of it written, so now it’s just a matter of figuring the whole thing out,” Roth said. “Quentin’s standards are so high that he won’t do it unless he feels like he can do it better than the first one.”
Eli added that scenes he did with Cloris Leachman, that didn’t make the first movie would be in the prequel if it gets made. Let’s hope QT gets his writing on and finishes the script soon because I can’t wait for a IB prequel!!!
But before we get a IB prequel, Dread Central posted the first pictures from Cotton that was produced by Eli Roth. Cotton is the story of an evangelical minister who documents his last exorcism. From that picture below it looks the must see movie with someone else!
So many people keep saying me to I don’t know what I am going to be for Halloween, do you have any suggestions. I had no idea what to tell them until I saw Eli Roth’s Tweet. The Inglourious Basterds actor Tweeted in detail how you can make the perfect Bear Jew costume for yourself. So there you have it a Halloween costume suggestion and it is simple enough to do.
Now I wonder what he will dress as to go Trick or Treating and if his date will go as Violet from Williy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?
BTW Inglourious Basterds will be out on DVD on December 15th and I can’t wait to own it!!!
Back in August when Quentin Tarantino was promoting Inglourious Basterds, his little secret Big Gerry got out. Big Gerry is a huge purple d!ldo that he uses against his cast and crew if they fall asleep on his set. You see if he catches you with your eyes closed, he takes out Big Gerry and snaps a picture of you with the huge purple guy as seen below! Well anyways we saw the pictures and back in August when he was on MTV Canada he demonstrated on Eli Roth what would happen to you if he caught you taking a siesta on his watch. He He! For almost two months I have been looking for that video and finally today someone posted it and I totally had to share it with you.
To me the funniest part of that interview is that they blurred the d!ldo in picture with Brad Pitt and Big Gerry, but at the end of the interview the host says sh!t. What’s up with that?
BTW if I working on a QT movie, I would totally fall asleep all the time on the set just so I could enjoy Big Gerry! Joking!?!
