Did anyone actually like Wolf Creek and Hostel?
 

I can't think of any other films where I've checked my watch so many times. There are only so many times you can show that the heros are alone, and still alone, and still alone and cut off from the rest of the world, and still alone and cut off from the rest of the world with no chance of help, and still alone and cut off with no chance of help not for a long time, and still etc etc... before you start wondering if the seat you're sitting on would fit down the person that dragged you to see the film's throat... or perhaps somewhere else.
I love horror and feed off the suspense but any sense of foreboding had long since turned to boredom. I know it's a horror film so I DO know there will be guts and gore. If I have to wait to have any slight attempt to actually scare or shock me till the last 10 minutes of a film, even if they then try to cram as much in as they can, I'm already so bored it has no impact. And to be honest the guts and gore thing wasn't great for me anyway. We see worse on the news and in the papers.
But anyway, rant now spent, DID anyone enjoy these films?

I liked Wolf Creek a lot. It reminded me of a modern day Texas chainsaw Massacre or something along those lines with it's gritty feel.

Hostel seemed like too much of a Saw knockoff for me to really get in to, but the scene in the locker room where he's talking to the dude, that dialogue is awesome & I'd be willing to bet anything Tarantino wrote it.

havent watched hostel yet .. saw Wolf Creek - thought it was ok..

I shall expand on this later, but the short answer:

Wolf Creek was pretty good.

Hostel sucked.

My thoughts exactly. But I'd add the word "balls" after 'sucked' for Hostel.

I did like Wolf Creek. It was nothing groundbreaking by any means, but it wasn't a bad film. The villain was definitely the most memorable part of the film.

Hostel, on the other hand... To put it mildly, this movie wasn't too good. I don't think I've ever seen such a repellent cast of characters. This was a major step back for Eli Roth, for sure.

Haven't watched Wolf Creek yet.

Hostel wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

Wolf Creek=good. i thought it was pretty creepy.

Hostel=pretty bad. second half was decent though. but the whole plot turned out to be pretty gay.

Wolf Creek, Not bad until the stupid disclaimer at the end. you go through the whole thing thinking "How the hell did anyone know all of this happened?" only to get to the end and know, it's prbably a bunch of bullshit that some guy made up to cover for the fact that he probably killed 2 girls.


Hostel... promised gut wrenching torture, but more or less pusse dout with most of it. it was inspiring from the viewpoint of "Good idea, but i could do SO much better..." and Holy shit.. Someone get Eli Roth a girl who will actually fuck him, for christ's sake...


It is verty akward to sit through a movie like that with your wife.. tooo Many tits, i know this is me, but jesus christ.. Maybe when i was single i could have accepted it, but i wanted brutal torture and instead i got 45 minutes of jackoff material leading to some special effects.

I would have to say the same about these movies. Hostel was gay.

Haha, watching that movie with any female is very awkward. My girlfriend wanted to watch it with me. We watched the first 20 minutes of it, I got embarressed and turned it off. I think she knows why, but she kept bugging me about it and it's still in our "To Watch" stack of films. :(

Literally. Have you read all of the critical letters in Fangoria for the past few months? It's all about Hostel and it's reference to the words "Fag", "Gay" and "Homo". Very sad indeed, although that IS normal talk for any teenager.

typical bloody american.


canadians still like tits.

(you fag)


:p

Liked Wolf Creek - nice slow burn and the "head on a stick" line is wonderfully chilling.

Really liked Hostel - the idea of someone paying more to torture an American over any other nationality makes this the most subversive film to come out of Hollywood in a while. A real indictment of the "ugly American."

how much for a Canadian ?

couple of food stamps and a bus ticket ?

they pay you :p

generally not worth the effort:D

lets face it boys ..

people love us, they'd never torture us in the 1st place.






ok .. the truth is ..

we're fucking invisible. people would have to notice you to torture you.

America: We are the world's only superpower! Do you have a problem? We will fix it! Love us! Look at us! AHHHH! Shoot at us! Come on, bitch, we can take it.


Canada: (looking down) What a moron...

no - we look down and say 'jesus christ i hope they never get pissed at us'


its like having a psycho big brother.

Why would we get mad at you guys? you would have to start assailing us with beavers strapped with dirty bombs and WMDs. they would then gnaw away at out mighty forests (the ones we havent logged yet). then if a mounty or a moose tried to kil GW senior, then we may have a war on our hands.

Of course, georgy probably looks ta canada on a map and thinks "man, that country is huge. and right over us! man, if we do anything to it, it may come loose and squish us!"

so when exactly are you moving your family up here ?

lemme know - we'll grab lunch and i'll show you around the place :)

I think they both sucked and were a total let down. I had heard they both were so good and I do not agree one bit.
Both had bad acting, bad lines, not as much gore and creepiness I had anticipated.
Huge letdown!!

<3 hostel
never seen wolf creek

Wolf Creek is ok.
I love Hostel.

I completly agree; It's a fantastic idea. Too bad it was so poorly executed.

Both of these films are basically different sides of the same coin. Both spent a good portion of the film on character development. Both tried to show a darker side of human nature, without straying very far from the relm of the "possible".

The major difference, to me at least, is that Wolf Creek could actually pull it off.

There are a few minor spoilers here and there through this post, but nothing major.

Hostel's character development was entirely pointless. It failed to make the characters believable in the least (plus dumber than your average slasher fodder), and the incredibly flat acting really didnt help that fact. Plus, they managed to fill the movie with more tits than most softcore porn. By the time we got to the "payoff", I had lost all interest in the film. A potentially great concept, dragged through the mud. It had a few things going for it (The scene where Paxon is escaping and has a conversation with one of the toturers was genius), but not enough.

Wolf Creek on the other hand created some very realistic and sympathetic characters. The actors made them believable, likeable, and above all real, where Hostel totally missed the mark. By the time the shit started to fly, you actually liked these people to some extent. You even had started to like the killer, which made it all the more eerie. It did have flaws of course (Borrowed ALOT from Texas Chainsaw), but overall was MUCH better than Hostel.

See? I told you I'd expand on what I said.

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I liked Hostel....didn't see Wolf Creek....yet

Wolf Creek
>>: C

Hostel
>>: D

i havent seen any of those but i love gore hence being a george a romero fan.
also i heard that hostel is just plain sick. if it is im more tempted to buy it?

Both films where pretty mediocre affairs in my opinion and neither lived up to its super gory sick hype at all. Wolf creep has a slight edge on Hostel though I think because the guy that plays the killer gives a great performance

he made an effective switch from a rotund, jovial good old boy to a psycho .. especially at the time of the stare at the guy around the campfire

I strongly disagree. I think the dialogue/acting in Wolf Creek was very good. Very realistic, and not at all over the top.

Hostel, on the other hand...Jesus, it was horrible.

In my mind anything that is actually able to happen is always more scary then the fantastical, getting lost in the back country and having a strange man do all that stuff seems more able to happen then a man who can enter your dreams and kill you. which makes it scarier.

wolf creek was okay but i hated hostel.

I've seen Hostel but never bothered with Wolf Creek.

I enjoyed Wolf Creek. Nothing fancy, just good ol gritty fun Down Under.

I don't think Hostel is as bad as a lot of people proclaim it to be. Very disappointing, but not terrible. When they tout something to be the most gut wrenching, disgusting thing to come along in a long time, they forget that a lot of the hardcore horror crowd watches shit like The Guinea Pig series. Hell, gore-wise it doesn't even live up to Cabin Fever standards.

Hostel as jerk off material? You're kidding right? I watched it with my girlfriend and spoken to other girls about it. None have been bothered by it, in fact most have agreed even that was poorly done. I mean, if its core were much softer on the sex side it'd be marshmallow. I wouldn't say I was uncomfortable about it... bored by i maybe but not uncomfortable. Hell I see better than that on an average Saturday night out... Sunday... Monday... Tuesday etc etc. So if you think that's good believe me there's plenty out there that will blow your mind.

i watched hostel for the 1st time the other night n i got bored half way through it that i turned it off, n i dont like when peoples eyes get cut n stuff in films n people were telling me that the eye bit in hostel was really bad but when i watched it i was like is that it?

Perhaps none of them saw the unrated version then. i think return had the best reviews on both so far.

the point wasnt that there were lots of tits, its that they promised horrific torture, then flopped around 30 or so pairs of tits. oh yeah, then some horror.

Well, I for one enjoyed Hostel, although it is far from a classic by any accounts. Thing is, I saw a couple of reviews about it saying that it was a kind of mix between American Pie and Saw before seing it. So I entered the movie theater knowing what to expect and I it delivered just that. I saw this with my girlfriend, and she was not disgusted at all by the first part.

The opposite thing happened with Wolf Creek. I was so looking forward to this one, as it was hailed as very intense and disturbing, and it failed miserably on both points in my book. Good acting and character development, sure, but that's the only good thing it had in my opinion. Nothing remotely intense or disturbing in this one if you ask me.