How to scare friends and creep out people.Photo: Courtesy of Tim Palen.
Eli Roth Has His Dirk Diggler Moment
In this week’s issue, we talk to Hostel: Part II director and NYU alum Eli Roth about how he and Lionsgate marketed their gory sequel in the aftermath of Virginia Tech and the Captivity-billboard controversy. Surprisingly, many of Lionsgate’s sharpest posters were actually shot by Tim Palen, Lionsgate marketing exec and a part-time photographer. In July, Palen will publish Guts: The Art of Marketing Horror Films, a collection of his creepiest work, including a pornographic, absolutely not-safe-for-work portrait of Roth that we, with some reservations, premiere after the jump.
Eli Roth, raccoon-eyed and available.Courtesy of Tim Palen