Hostel

Krypton · 12-17-2005, 01:43 AM

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 · 12-17-2005, 02:33 AM

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

Professor S · 12-17-2005, 10:20 AM

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 · 12-17-2005, 01:56 PM

When I read Cabin Fever I thought:

DeathsHand · 12-17-2005, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Krypton

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 · 12-17-2005, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Professor S

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 · 12-19-2005, 01:57 PM

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 · 12-29-2005, 06:13 PM

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

DeathsHand · 12-29-2005, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Krypton

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

Yeah, by it's marketing team...

Krypton · 12-30-2005, 12:03 AM

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Originally Posted by DeathsHand

Yeah, by it's marketing team...

that quite possibly is true.

P.S: love your new avatar.

Dylflon · 12-30-2005, 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Krypton

that quite possibly is true.

P.S: love your new avatar.

The age of Aquariuuuuuus!

KillerGremlin · 01-06-2006, 12:02 AM

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

DeathsHand · 01-07-2006, 12:54 AM

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 · 01-07-2006, 01:24 AM

What do you think was the goriest thing?

DeathsHand · 01-07-2006, 02:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Swan

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...