Eli Roth's hostel

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he saw him operating on his friend plus he remeber him talk to so other people. in the original script he took his daughter with him. he was gonna kid nap his daughter and kill her but eli roth said he probli would have not got what he wanted and the studio would have shut him down.
 
just got back from it. I'm going to puke.
but it was well written, i agree, and very entertaining. esp when the kids bash those thugs.
..nasty!
 
Looks like the NU Wave Horror movement has begun! High Tension, The Devil's Rejects and Hostel were all throwbacks to real horror movies, and I think it's just going to get bigger.
 
There's also The Hills Have Eyes remake coming out... remake, not throwback, but it's made by the High Tension director, so I'm thinking it's gonna be lumped in with those guys.

Most people i know that see hostel though also say "HAve you seen Saw II?" and i get somewhat annoyed.
 
well hostel is more of the shock horror which is already famous in asian so i guess it begins here.
 
I just got back from seeing this and all I have to say is.... wow. This is the best horror flick I've seen in a long, long, time.
I thought it was much more suspenseful then gory, and the ending just kicks some serious a$$.
This is what a horror movie should be, not that crap, like "house of wax" BS.
The acting was top-notch for such an unknown cast.

I got a kick out of "Pulp Fiction" playing on the TV. Cool touch.
 
Yeah, I really liked the ending too. The whole third act (i think it's the third act) that's just the (PSUEDO SPOILER) escape from the "art exhibit" place was done better than most horror movies. It gave it a sense of desperation, but there was also kinda an air of heroism. Plus it does revenge and brings back old characters like none other.

I'm trying to think of the last horror movie i saw in theaters. It must have been Devil's Rejects, and then before that I think it was the first SAW. Before that was The Grudge (a movie which I still have a grudge against-HA!). When looking at how things are going, I gotta say I'm happy.

Yeah, the Pulp referrence was good.
 
I finally thought of a part in this film that was pure convenience..

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The two girls and the guy who lured them there all are conveniently on the street together.....So he can run them over.
Not that i'm complaining, it was my favorite part of the movie. Those biznatches got what they deserved. And the brunette gets run over again... OUCH!
 
entertaining yes, worth 20 bucks no. I thought that the marketing was well done but this was just not the film I thought it would be. All the same it was fun to see some gore on the big screen. Best gore film, DEAD ALIVE.
 
Here is my negative take... I should have learned my lesson from Roth's Cabin Fever... Good concept... Poor execution... It is like a late night cinemax flick for the first hour that is pretty much pointless and long drawn out and then a few cool, intense scenes here and there, but it's too little too late... overall a waste of $$$. The only people I would recommend this to would be 13-15 year old males who haven't seen any real horror flicks and think Saw is the greatest horror flick of all time... LOL... Just my opinion... :-)
 
I agree with you dude.

This movie was way overblown.

The gore was not as intense as it should have been and some of the make-up effects looked terrible.

In addition the third act is some of the worst kind of drivel out there. Everything wraps up in a nice little package as a result of a series of completely implausible coincidences.

This should have been much better.

Eli Roth should join the guys at Broken Lizard cause i think he's more adept at sophmoric comedy than horror.
 
you know the movie isnt wat it was thought to be. the movie was a movie where you hoped the bad people got what they deserved so you could say yeah take that *****!
 
Here's a genre I just don't get -- graphic depictions of people being tortured, maimed, and killed.
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Let's take a look at some films that may (or may not) fall into that category.

Se7en
The Devil's Reject's
House of a Thousand Corpses
Kill Bill V2
Kill V2
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dog's
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Carrie
Scarface
Goodfellas
Taxi Driver
Braveheart
Gladiator
Saving Private Ryan

Although I see your point:

I'm a fan. I like my shite real at times. Doesn't change how I feel about other genres and other films that lean in a more vanilla direction; but I appreciate and welcome the more harcore cinema.
 
If you're a horror fan and don't like this film and appreciate what Eli Roth did and accomplished is beyond me.

Let's compare it too the other studio horror releases of the last 6 months.
House of Wax - crap.
Cry Wolf - derivitive crap.
Venom - derivitive crap.

I'm sure there's more but I can't remember them because why? They are forgettable.

Hostel is the most thrilling, susepenful, original, horror film I've seen in a long, long time. It's beatifully shot, wonderfully acted and brilliantely directed.

Horror fans should be kissing Eli Roth's ass.

Just my 2 cents.
 
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