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I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.

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Eli Roth
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 18
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Eli Raphael Roth
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I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand. And actually, most of the bats in Massachusetts are used off the field instead of on the field, and we all had baseball bats in our cars in high school.
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Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.
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Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.
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I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my '80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N' Roses.
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