Ho hum
Posted on 01/06/2006 8:19:27 AM PST by teddyballgame
Folks who live for the pull and snap of live flesh will have their share of sequences to cheer for in "Hostel," the new horror flick about two American backpackers who wind up snared in a wild Slovakian torture ring.
Written and directed by Eli Roth ("Cabin Fever"), the movie tells one of those nightmare-abroad tales, like "An American Werewolf in London" or "Eurotrip." Jocky and horny Paxton (Jay Hernandez) and bookish and virginal Josh (Derek Richardson) show up in Amsterdam and promptly hit the bong and cruise the nightclubs. They befriend an Icelander named Oli (Eythor Gudjonsson), insult the locals, get in fights, find hookers, and carry on with boorish joie de vivre.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
It's not pornography -- honestly! [/Austin Powers voice]
There is a movement in Asian films for this sort of graphic visceral horror. It's making its way into American films.
America has been clamoring for movies about "wild Slovakian torture rings".
(Along with ones about gay cowboys.)
I read somewhere that people were fainting at this screening.
I don't get it, how can anyone watch this kind of stuff?
Just wait 'til McCain hears about this....
It's an acquired taste that's for sure. Stuff like this used to only play in midnight shows in grindhouses. Remember 'Last House on the Left'?
Whatever happened to wholesome, family pictures? It seems the movie industry keeps going further and further into the gutter.
I don't get it, how can anyone watch this kind of stuff?
You probably heard it on the bogus commercial on TV for the movie. They are trumping it up for ticket sales. The movie looks like "Saw" from the previews and doesn't even look scary.
People fainted during the first few showings of "The Exorcist" and that turned into a blockbuster. This one probably won't be, but some folks like it. Diff'rent strokes...
"Odd the different reaction to the violence in this movie and others such as Kill Bill and that found in The Passion..."
Excellent point. Prior to the opening of "The Passion", all you heard from critics was how grotesquely perverse all the violence was. I guess films like "Kill Bill", "SAW", and "Hostel" the violence is "art".
Horror is no longer horror, it's revulsion.
The difference here is that The Exorcist was actually a good movie and has stood the test of time. This one sounds like a pure one-week viewing and then right to an "unrated" DVD $8.99 special.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means ... Inigo Montoya
Main Entry: ex·cre·ment
Pronunciation: 'ek-skr&-m&nt
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin excrementum, from excernere
:waste matter discharged from the body; especially : waste (as feces) discharged from the alimentary canal
You're welcome
And Hollywood continues to navel-gaze and ask why people are not paying to see their offerings....
Restorer made that post not me. But I agree totally with Restorer's post.
Is that like some sort of laxative gum?
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