Hostel

[Krypton]

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Internationally renowned filmmaker Quentin Tarantino presents Eli Roth's HOSTEL, the follow-up to the writer-director's hit debut, 2002's CABIN FEVER. More grisly than Roth's feature bow, HOSTEL is a mixture of many of the most terrifying things about human nature and the world at large, culled from many impossible-but-true stories of human trafficking, international organized crime, and sex tourism. Relentlessly graphic and deeply disturbing, the film is sure to shock even the most hard core genre fans.

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HOSTEL tells the story of two adventurous American college buddies Paxton and Josh who backpack through Europe eager to make quintessentially hazy travel memories with new friend Oli, an Icelander they've met along the way.

Paxton and Josh are eventually lured by a fellow traveler to what's described as a nirvana for American backpackers - a particular hostel in an out-of-the-way Slovakian town stocked with Eastern European women as desperate as they are gorgeous. The two friends arrive and soon easily pair off with exotic beauties Natalya and Svetlana. In fact, too easily…

Initially distracted by the good time they're having, the two Americans quickly find themselves trapped in an increasingly sinister situation that they will discover is as wide and as deep as the darkest, sickest recess of human nature itself - if they survive.

MPAA Rating: R - for brutal scenes of torture and violence, strong sexual content, language and drug use.

Runtime: 1 hour, 35 minutes

Release Company: Lions Gate Films

Genre: Horror/Suspense, Slasher, Based On A True Story

[Typhoid]

Well, now I really dont need to go see it, do I? :p

[Professor S]

I really enjoyed Cabin Fever and I thought it was one of the better made horror filsm in a long... LONG time. I'll have to check this one out.

[Dyne]

When I read Cabin Fever I thought:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6303140149.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

:sneaky:

[DeathsHand]

Relentlessly graphic and deeply disturbing

*fast forwards through post*

MPAA Rating: R

Yeah, sure... "Relentlessly graphic and deeply disturbing", just not enough so to get stamped with a taboo NC-17 rating...

If it's anything like "Saw", that means spliced together with goofy X-TREME MTV editing while skimping out on the actual violence and gore...

You know something bad is happening because the camera is shaking, it's obnoxiously fast-forwarding through the scene and jumping from one camera to another to another to another approx. 50 times in 3 seconds...

I dunno though, the setting looks fun...

Edit: (from a review) "It's hard not to feel somewhat disappointed by Hostel, given that writer/director Eli Roth kept proclaiming that the film was to be an uncompromisingly disturbing exercise in fear. But, as it turns out, the movie is no more extreme than most similarly-themed R-rated flicks and it seems fairly obvious that Roth was forced to censor himself in order to placate the MPAA."

What I tell ya?

[BlueFire]

I really enjoyed Cabin Fever and I thought it was one of the better made horror filsm in a long... LONG time.


Are you serious? :/ I thought the movie was a joke after a few scenes.

And that ending was just....dumb.

[Professor S]

I loved it because the movie was more abou the people in the situation than the situation. When looking back on the film, you could see how the whole mess could have been avoided if everyone had kept their heads, but yet you could also see how everyone lost their ****.

It had aspects from every 70's slasher/exploitation horror film (like Last House on the Left) wrapped up in a nice little psychological and cyclical plot. Much better than Saw or any of the mainstream horror movies made of late.

[Krypton]

this movie is being deemed the most horrific movie in the past decade

[DeathsHand]

this movie is being deemed the most horrific movie in the past decade

Yeah, by it's marketing team... :sneaky:

[Krypton]

Yeah, by it's marketing team... :sneaky:

that quite possibly is true.

P.S: love your new avatar.

[Dylflon]

that quite possibly is true.

P.S: love your new avatar.

The age of Aquariuuuuuus!

[KillerGremlin]

Tarantino better put another movie into production before "presenting" another film.

[DeathsHand]

Saw the movie...

The gore was OK, but honestly from the way they were making the movie sound, there wasn't very much of it...

Overall it was just kind of boring and pointless...

[Swan]

What do you think was the goriest thing?

[DeathsHand]

What do you think was the goriest thing?

I suppose it depends on what you mean by goriest...


*****TORTURE SPOILERZ!1*****


If you literally mean bloodiest, wellll.... *ponders* I'd definately say anything involving the chainsaw...

If you're speaking most cringe-worthy... I'd saaaay the snipping off of an eyeball which was hanging out of it's socket... Hell, the simple fact that it was hanging out of it's socket was bad enough...

[Dark Samurai]

This was seriously the first movie to ever make me feel queasy.

*** WARNING: Spoiler***

When the "Surgeon" cut both of the guys' Achilles heels, and when they opened up when was given the "chance" to leave. Ugh!!! That got to me...

***/Spoiler***

Though the movie was very hyped up, I thought it was better than SAW II, at least in the gory aspect of it... not at all a "bad" movie... it does have its moments...

[DeathsHand]

Samurai, that's actually the part that got to my friend the most... :>

But I just have a weakness for anything involving eyes... I think it started when I saw 28 Days Later... The part where Jim shoves his thumbs into one soldier's eyes... Double whammy, excruciating pain + loss of vision...

[Swan]

Are there any scenes involving finger torture or anything hand/fingernail related?


I can't stand that...

[DeathsHand]

Are there any scenes involving finger torture or anything hand/fingernail related?


I can't stand that...

The short answer is yes...
The long answer is yes, watch this... (http://lionsgate.arcostream.net/lionsgate/hostel/clips/hostel_8_700.wmv)
And the longest answer is yes, watch that and you'll see the only finger-related torture in the movie... To prepare yourself... :sneaky:

[Swan]

Ok, that wasn't too bad.



I cringed more in Lost with the fingernails and bamboo.

[DeathsHand]

Ok, that wasn't too bad.

I cringed more in Lost with the fingernails and bamboo.

Yeah surrusly... Injuries involving fingernails are horrible... Everyone cringes when that one zombie in Land of the Dead claws at a wall and it's fingernails peel off as it's fingers sort of fall apart... And that's just a damn zombie!

But as all the trailers/commercial spots imply, there is some toe-snipping... But c'mon, seriously... They should pry their toenails off, rip their toes out of their sockets, etc... Snipping them off is just a waste of good material...

[Swan]

Or the thing that would be terrible, you know on the top of your nails, where it goes out from your skin, stick something in there, or peel the skin up..


Eee, that hurt to type.

[KillerGremlin]

Was I the only one who found that video hilarious? Kind of like Black Metal or kids that shop at Hot Topic.

I might go see Hostel, but I might get kicked out for laughing now.

[Swan]

Was I the only one who found that video hilarious? Kind of like Black Metal or kids that shop at Hot Topic.

I might go see Hostel, but I might get kicked out for laughing now.
Yeah, that would make going to see the movie fun...laughing uncontrollably.



Reminds me of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

[DeathsHand]

I might go see Hostel, but I might get kicked out for laughing now.

Doubt it... At our sold out showing, people were laughing, cheering, clapping, and yelling at the screen...

Personally there was only one scene I laughed out loud at, and it wasn't one of the scenes of graphic violence... It involved someone getting hurt, but it was quick, bloodless, and they deserved it... :>

[KillerGremlin]

I just found it quite funny that he slipped.

I had a lot of laughs at Saw II. I didn't think directors could get away with making characters in a movie so incredibly dumb.

[DeathsHand]

I just found it quite funny that he slipped.

True... But people can be pretty clumsy... The evil-doers in this movie aren't professional hitmen or nothin', they're just people with money who are looking for a good time :>
But yeah, the movie is fairly ridiculously unbelievable...

They cut out the best part of that scene though... There's a reason the guy's on the ground twitching after he slips...

[BlueFire]

I saw the film tonight. It's not as bad as the ads make it out to be. Gorey yes. The parts that got to me a tad:


SPOILER EVEN THOUGH ITS LISTED LAWL




the eye being cut off and puss oozing out as the jap gal screamed

and

the achilles tendon thing was harmful. sound effects worked for that. haha


ANYWAYS


I thought the film was... ehh..
In my mind, I pictured it to be so much better. You could tell Roth made this. It makes use of a lot of humor and then a little bit of torture. Eh.. I dunno. The theme was really good. This could've been a great film. But it was just gore and nothing else. Blah.


Did anyone else find the part with the Jap girl walking around the platform odd?

[DeathsHand]

Did anyone else find the part with the Jap girl walking around the platform odd?

Nah, I think they're used to people walking around with only half a face... :sneaky: