Trailer and DVD art here... The art sucks and the trailer looks meh. Interesting premise though. I'll give it a look.

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/26731

~Zack~

Hostel didn't even deserve a part 1 IMO.  One of the worst movies I've ever seen.  

this looks awful...

The original Hostel is a true classic and easily one of the very best horror movies of all time.

The sequal was actually very, very good as well, but much under appreciated.

This 3rd entry worries me...DTV?  Oh boy...I'm worried.

Saw the trailer. While normally I wouldn't judge a book by a cover, one can always see the price. I didn't "love" the first film, but when the film went into a thriller-escape mode, I started to like that third act. The sequel opened up with the death of the character and while I understand the tip of the hat to those horrors which knock off the heroes from the previous film in the first reel--it wasn't as interesting. B.O. numbers also show this.

With Hostels and the Saw films (hey, guess who's not back for H'Ween!) folks are getting a bit weary of the "torture" horror sub-genre. It's like, ha-ha you got us. Let's move on.

I thought the third Hostel would deal with the Orphans (whose fathers are probably dead, mothers are topless decoys/Hunting Club employees, thats a wild guess) or maybe we'd get a "Taken" situation (I still can imagine the mashup)

But instead they switch locations. Where? Vega$.

There's that scene in the trailer where a vic is subject to death by his killer; a curtian opens up and Rich High Rollers/ mems of Hunt Club are taking bids. I yawned, thinking,

a - didn't the last Saw have a trap where the public watched; this is a variation of it and

b- I have seen B films where "underground" Vegas clubs bet on guys who fight to the death, this is nothing more than a variation of it and

c- Where is the Hostel? Getting "lost" in another country controlled by the Russian (?) Mafia is one thing; US soil is something else.

Now, that said, I can't in all honesty say I will skip it. I will try. But I saw all the Saws. I saw the first two Hostels. Sometimes I'll survive a DTV Steven Seagal flick. (Sometimes not)

Which reminds me. The first two flicks were shot on forign soil by Eli Roth. One would assume costs would be a bit lower than shifting action to Las Vegas.