Quoted from Zombie Sean Sorry if someone has already said this (I didn't read the past posts and I just found this out so I have something to say), but I saw on http://www.upcominghorrormovies.com that they are making a Hostel 2. Now I heard this movie was terrible... ...I wonder if this movie will be worse. Sean

Ha

Oooh mistake. For the "Now I heard this movie was terrible..." sentence, I meant for the first Hostel.

For the "...I wonder if this movie will be worse." sentence, I meant for Hostel 2.

Sorry if I confused anyone

Sean

I just wanted to write to you guys so you can be enlightened on the greatest line in screenwriting history.  It was spoken in this film and it was right at the beginning.

"Man I hope beastiality is legal in Amsterdam, because that bitch is a hog."

Eli, you have to teach me your secret.  Pure genius.  I only hope I have the lingustic skills you possess during my writing career.

Thank you.  

Good film, better gore, realistic feel and everything horror needs but it wasn't scary or sick.

I honestly think people overreacted about this film, Devil's Rejects is more violent for me. It has more moments where you feel uncomfortable; this did not have any that did the job.

Soft-core porn? Nudity makes a film soft-core porn nowadays? Did Janet Jackson really screw up society to call Hostel porn? Bullshit. Eurotrip was similar without the horror stuff and it had more dick in it than Jenna Jameson on a Tuesday.

The DVD special features so far are pretty good as well.

It took me some time, but I finally got around to this on DVD... and I thought it mostly sucked.  Just another overhyped horror flick, all though I did initially have hope for this one as I was a fan of Roth's first film, "Cabin Fever."

My biggest problem with this movie is that it somehow managed to be incredibly boring despite the T&A in the beginning and the blood and guts towards the end.  However, both of these aspects make for my negativity towards "Hostel."  It just does not click.  The first forty minutes felt like three hours.  It was like porn only not as much fun.  Besides, I'm not picking up a flick about torture and mutilation to watch forty minutes of mediocre softcore.

So, finally, we make our way to the notorious warehouse where all of this goes down.  While it certainly did not drag along like the first half, I still felt it was a very big letdown.  Like someone had all ready pointed out, alot of the gore was implied and when it was shown it just wasn't as effective as I thought it would be.  The infamous "eye-gasm" scene was so over the top, that it lost its scare factor.  Instead, it just looked... well, fake.

However, there were some highlights to all of this.  Besides the eye scene, the gore that is shown is fairly well done and made believable by Greg Nicotero.  Also, the acting was surprisingly pretty good for a movie like this (read: horror).  Finally, Roth shines in the dark humor department, which is what I thought made "Cabin Fever" so good.  My favorite scene in this is when our protagonist exacts some revenge on the woman who lures him to the warehouse in the first place.

All in all, I wouldn't even say it was the hype that killed this for me or made me feel even more dissapointed than I actually might be.  Instead, I would just blame the boredom factor.  It's never a good sign when an hour and a half movie feels more like three and has me looking at the clock on the wall every so often.  Roth has talent, I don't doubt that.  However, I think he is better suited with his comedic skills than his horror side.

*1/2 out of ****

Thought it was pretty much crap, myself.  Roth's 0 for 2 as far as I'm concerned.  I seriously disliked Cabin Fever, and this one was no better.  Roth's a Troma guy from way back -- he can even be seen floating about in the background in a few Troma flicks -- and it's apparent where he got his sense of style and storytelling from.  The only difference is, he's no Lloyd Kaufman.

I love a good horror/comedy, but if I wanted dick and fart jokes I'd watch Porky's.  Roth's "humor" is inane in the worst kind of locker-room way, and no offense to anyone, but aside from a few well-done moments of gore interspersed between Cabin Fever and Hostel, I don't see how anyone can say the guy's got talent.  

Worst of all, he's a hype-machine; both his movies he's proclaimed to be "totally sick and fucked up!"  They are, yes, but in a bad way.  If you're going to talk smack, it shouldnt' be one ounce more than what you can actually back up.  

As I stated, I didn't like Cabin Fever at all (in fact, I thought it was horrid and symbolic of everything that's wrong with horror today) but I'm always willing to give a first-time director a second chance.  Now that I've seen his second chance, I won't be giving him a third.  The 'tard.

This was a pure SHIT BALL! I wasn't hyped about seeing it. I didn't wanna see it. I was drug to see it and I laughed the whole way thru and shook my head at the times I wasn't doing that... this movie was for "teens" to work themselves up. It was built up so much that the only place to go was down...

Cabin fever blew goat nuts and porked chickens in the butt and so did Hostel... Roth is a SLOP DONG and this movie is testament to that fact.

Shock horror can't be done in today's society. The late 60's and early 70's are over and that's where all the shock horror was left. Anybody trying to do shock horror today just looks foolish.

Nah, I wouldn't go so far as to say it can't be done today.  Takashi Miike, as mentioned in this thread, is a very skillful and inventive filmmaker with a taste for the morbid, macabre and extreme (though he, too, has his hits and misses).  So for the most part he's proof that it can be done, and can be done well.

Just not by Eli Roth.

i watched the first 20 minutes of it and turned it off.... total garbage. if i wanted to see a porn flick i would have rented a porn flick

Quoted Text A woman in the theatre vomited.

What a pussy.
If you've got a WEAK stomach do not go to a bloody horror movie. And from what I recall, the gore wasn't perticualarly bad, except the eye scene.

But anyway, did this woman even read the bloody sypnosis? Does she even know the definition of a horror movie? Stupid old b....

I haven't even seen it, should I?

I would only say see it if your with a female, because it's guarenteed sex, but other than that, skip it.  It's terrible.  

Quoted from Balt Shock horror can't be done in today's society. The late 60's and early 70's are over and that's where all the shock horror was left. Anybody trying to do shock horror today just looks foolish.

Balt,
I am prolly alone in saying this but I though of the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes was shocking... Don't go off on how poorly this movie was..blah blah blah.. I'm talking about the gore. That movie actually made me feel sick. Sorry for getting off topic.. I'll post a review I guess...

Hostel was oddly better the second time. I saw it in theaters and it was just okay but for some reason I thought it was like two hours long because of the slow beginning.

I recently rented the unrated dvd. I didn't notice a difference. The only thing I noticed that was different was when *I think his name was josh?* Was being tortured and it showed the drill stabbing him.

It was alot better to watch the 2'd time... wierd

second time I would give it **1.2 out of *****

I rented this one today. I agree with the slow beginning...
Fifteen minutes into the film, my boyfriend was like, "You sure this is the one you wanted to watch?"
I told him, "Yeah, it's supposed to be scary."
Well, I waited and waited for something to happen...
When it finally got to the torture scenes, well, those really messed me up.
I can't say I liked it, but I can't say I didn't like it either.
Could it have been done better? Yeah. Could have been done a lot worse, too.

Quoted from CindyLKeller Could have been done a lot worse.

Stan Lee said the same thing about the original Fantastic Four movie.

Surprisingly, that kind of comment has never been a selling point for me.


Phil