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These films are better than Hostel.
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i liked it. it was what it was, tits and gore. what sort of male horror fan would i be if i didn't like that formula. i do think it was a victim of its own hype. people felt cheated. i thought it was just another mindless, shallow, fun holywood style horror. stick with takashi miike if you want substance and gore. say what you like about it, it was entertaining.
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I loved the film - except for the pathetic *hanging out eye* scene - the makeup could have looked a little more realistic for me. Generally, the storyline that customers pay to torture people to death is perfect horror - as we are crossing the boundaries on what is perceived as acceptable and normal behaviour.
Like the atmosphere of the film and the general build up to the horror. Brilliant :D
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the eye scene was the best bit. i think it was meant to look slightly fake, along with most of the rest of it, as an homage to the old 70's flicks it was a tribute to.
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I thought Hostel was awful. Why? The characters were impossible to care about. When one doesn't care about the characters, the film quickly becomes boring. With nothing to draw the viewer in, there is no emotional attachment. I spent the first 45 minutes wondering if I received the wrong disc from Netflix. When the torture started, I thought that it might at least be somewhat interesting. It wasn't. I did not care whether the characters lived or died. All in all, it reminded me of watching a bad football game where one doesn't care who wins.
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Great film, one of the best of the 'torture porn' (ag!) nu-wave.
It didn't go where you expected it to, and offered little reason or redemption to the gory violence. I also had a problem with the badly constructed 'eye' scene, and the danger with its possible explanation - that it was 'meant to look amaturish' - is that many of the new 'splat pack' directors risk alienating their audience through self-indulgence. While it might be clever to explain to the girlfriend that the likes of the Grindhouse 'missing reel' is retro and 'cool', too much hip and 'nods' to previous stylisation risks horror tumbling back into the knowingness and self-parody of 90s post-modernist boredom.
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I loved "Hostel,"and I can't wait for part two!
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I have to say I liked Hostel. Yes there was porn but I feel it was there for a reason. The sex and prostitutes acted as foreshadowing for the end of the movie. One character Josh? is complaining outside the whorehouse that it is a little sick to be able to pay to go into a room and do anything you want to someone. Which is eventually what someone does to him. The characters are lured to the hostel by promises that the girls there will let them have all the sex they want. Mr. Creepy on the train says that when you go there you can pay to do anything. He is speaking of his reason for the trip rather than theirs but they are excited and only realize this later. The porn goes a bit far perhaps but I think it is designed to show that the main characters wanted to do as the 'bad guys' did just not in such an extreme way. It makes the main characters a little less sympathetic and suggests in the back of your mind that some of what they got was little different that what they wanted to do to the women. It's only my opinion but I think it is important to the storyline.
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Didn't catch and don't feel inclined to see Hostel, but Roth looks like he's going to be doing good things. Between Cabin Fever and producing 2001 Maniacs, he's shown a sharp eye for the genre. His trailer in Grindhouse is also very good. I think he benefitted from hanging out with John Landis, and with the kind of smirking genre insight he shares with Landis, Tarantino and their ilk, I think he could start doing some really good stuff, so long as he ignores the horror status quo.
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