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RE: Hostel - 24/2/2007 12:46:25 PM

goatboythegreat

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Man why does everyone have it in for Roth? Most horror films divide opinion but nobody attacks the director, but because Roth likes to talk a lot about movies and is passionate (just like his buddy Tarantino who everyone seems to worship) he is slated. Until you make a film yourself as good as Hostel shut up!!!

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RE: Hostel - 24/2/2007 1:03:35 PM

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I really liked the slow build up in the first half of Hostel, it was intriguing and made the second half pay off all the better.

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RE: Hostel - 24/2/2007 1:05:57 PM

goatboythegreat

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I agree. if it had just been 2 hours of non-stop torture the inpact would have gone quickly, but Paxton goes from a jock to a well written character and by the end you really want him to escape. I'm not sure what people expect from horrors these days but as PG and 12 certificate horrors and tame lame remakes such as The Grudge and The Fog are big hits then obviously people don't like their horrors scary any mroe.

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I really liked the slow build up in the first half of Hostel, it was intriguing and made the second half pay off all the better.

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RE: Hostel - 28/2/2007 5:50:05 AM

Tarbie

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Absolutely atrocious. There's so many attempts to be "shocking", it's simply boring. Cooooool, they say "fuck" a lot. Coooool, there's some tits. And some more, and some more, . . . Coooool, some unconvincing violence! There's so many "whoops, there go my clothes!" moments mingled with the torture I thought I was watching Robin Askwith in Confessions Of A Sadist Backpacker.

I'm bored of 12A so-called horror films too, but just adding nudity, swearing and tomato ketchup so it gets a higher classification doesn't make it a decent horror. You need a good script, suspense, etc. to manage that.

In a film where literally ALL the women are either whores or get brutally tortured, Eli Roth must have been really badly treated by some girl in high school.

Misogynist tripe of the highest order.

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Post #: 124

Hostel - 19/4/2007 10:26:24 AM

Masterio

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I just wasn't impressed with this movie at all. Basically it was just annoying. None of the cast really jelled. Indeed, most of the performances were totally unconvincing. I found Roth's previous effort "Cabin Fever" equally unimpressive. The violence in Hostel was laughable. I think Eli Roth is a good bluffer just like his buddy Quentin Tarantino. And that is the problem with Hostel: It's all talk and no action.

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RE: Hostel - 22/5/2007 1:59:24 AM

batrico

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Saw this on sky yesterday and well to tell the truth i was plleasantly surprised.I was expecting to turn it off after ten or fifteen minutes as drivel but no i watched the whole movie and i enjoyed it.I dont usually watch so called gore movies but the gore in this was enough without going overboard.The pay off was done well in my opinion too as the Paxton character made his escape etc.
I wont be in line at the cinema for part 2 but i will watch it on sky or hell i might even buy both on dvd if i hear the right vibes.
ps I stll think of evil dead 2 when i see someone with a chainsaw lol.

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RE: Hostel - 22/5/2007 5:20:35 PM

theoriginalcynic

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It's the worst film i've ever seen and i've seen some turkeys over the years. Absymal, celebrating the worst of human behaviour and gloryfying violence to a ridiculous extreme. If you like this film then go and see a psychatrist because i'm seriously worried about your mental health. Only the warped could find something enjoyable in this nasty pointless film. Don't watch it as you can't get the images out of your brain for ages and it leaves you feeling dirty 0 / 10

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- 10/6/2007 2:06:08 AM

minotaur3004

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I thought this movie would be so sick that i would vomit all over the cinema but no, everytime someone got tortured in anyway then it would cut out the scene so you could only see an empty room and you could only hear screaming. I mean saw was a thousand times better than this! The only reason im not giving this 1 star is because of the nice beggining

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Hostel - 15/6/2007 8:29:35 PM

solid snake

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Eli Roth firstly gave us Cabin Fever that was a gory tale about a flesh eating virus. However Hostel is completely diffrent and is the sickest film to come from a mainstream studio. However its not the goriest. Saw3 tooks its place when that came out. Its starts very well and it ends not so well. But dont be fooled it is a good film all the way through. Its scary, well acted and very gory. Though Hostel is not as good as it should have been you can not doubt its sick but stylish approcah.

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- 3/2/2008 8:25:42 PM

willchadwick

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I don't like Eli Roth

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- 3/2/2008 8:25:43 PM

willchadwick

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I don't like Eli Roth

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A Useless Escapade Into Bad Acting, Scriptwriting and S... - 23/4/2008 3:07:12 PM

blaud

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What was the point of this film. It proved to be nothing more than a gorefest for REAL sickos. Shocking, disturbing and just gross. nothing more. Wastefull

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A Useless Escapade Into Bad Acting, Scriptwriting and S... - 23/4/2008 3:07:14 PM

blaud

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What was the point of this film. It proved to be nothing more than a gorefest for REAL sickos. Shocking, disturbing and just gross. nothing more. Wastefull

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Not sure what it wants to be. - 16/8/2011 2:10:30 PM

filmfanatic123

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From: Arse End of Nowhere.

Hostel is a decent film, don't get me wrong. It just isn't sure what it wants to be.
The first half of the film is an undeniable filler for the main event that we all know will follow, but it plays like a crude homage to Eurotrip-and that was pretty damn bad.
The fact that, when the main characters are shown towards the hostel of horrors, the characters says that there are no men "because of the war." The fact of the matter is this; there has been so war in Slovakia in the past 15 years, although there has been one in Slovenia. That is embarrassing for Roth.
When the actual main event starts and the film kicks into gear, the gore is thrown at the audience in bucket loads.
Scenes with cut up ankles, yolky eyes and chainsaw sadism are all thrown in, but Eli Roth does manage to keep a thin veneer of humour over all the gore.
The scene with our hero (Hernandez) and, the obviously sexually frustrated maniac, draws a few laughs, and the scene at the end with the suicide of a main character, is also meant to invite audience laughter.
The fact remains, however, that the film is dragged down in the opening stages and the gore at the end just can't make up for it.
A decent effort from Roth, but it just can't compete with the likes of Saw 1 and 2.

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Hostel Review - 15/4/2012 11:47:52 PM

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Featuring lots of guts and gore, Hostel is a wildly entertaining and terrifying corpse-filled journey, assuming one is entertained by corpses, guts, and gore, that is.

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Hostel - 28/10/2012 8:35:00 PM

norgizfox

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If you take the smooth, talky style of a Tarantino film, and the gruesome, unsettling gore of Saw, you'd get Hostel, a bloody thrill ride that will leave some repulsed and others highly entertained.

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