Hostel Movie Review (Hollywood excrimate alert)

Boston.com ^ | 1/06/05 | Wesley Morris

[ClearCase_guy]

It's not pornography -- honestly! [/Austin Powers voice]

[Borges]

There is a movement in Asian films for this sort of graphic visceral horror. It's making its way into American films.

[Restorer]

Odd the different reaction to the violence in this movie and others such as Kill Bill and that found in The Passion, which actually had a reason for showing the violence beyond that of titillating the audience.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

America has been clamoring for movies about "wild Slovakian torture rings".

(Along with ones about gay cowboys.)

[roses of sharon]

I read somewhere that people were fainting at this screening.

I don't get it, how can anyone watch this kind of stuff?

[Old Seadog]

Ho hum

[Joe 6-pack]

Just wait 'til McCain hears about this....

[Borges]

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'?

[teddyballgame]

Whatever happened to wholesome, family pictures? It seems the movie industry keeps going further and further into the gutter.

[frogjerk]

I read somewhere that people were fainting at this screening.

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.

[TheBigB]

Like the man said, it's an acquired taste.

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...

[teddyballgame]

"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".

[atomicpossum]

Horror is no longer horror, it's revulsion.

[roses of sharon]

I do remember, but somehow I can take war movies, "monster", movies, ect, but have never tolerated slasher films.

I don't get scared, just sick.

[frogjerk]

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...

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.

[tx_eggman]

Excrimate

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

[NRA1995]

And Hollywood continues to navel-gaze and ask why people are not paying to see their offerings....

[frogjerk]

Restorer made that post not me. But I agree totally with Restorer's post.

[JennysCool]

excrimate?

Is that like some sort of laxative gum?