HOSTEL

[daddiefatsacks]

HOSTEL



*MAJOR SPOILERS*



Ladies and gentlemen, yesterday was my first time attending any type of film festival, and i cannot express how truly cool it was to see the movie I saw yesterday. I knew that i was in for a treat when the man, Eli Roth was sitting about 2 rows in front of me, and that he was really pumped to give us, the people of Toronto, the first public viewing of this film, after all, Toronto is where Eli launched Cabin Fever. Right before the movie started, Eli just gave us a rundown of what we were going to see, and that it WASNT a finished product (some looses ends like Sound design and digital effects) and that Screen Gems was planning on releasing this in November. He also said that it was a secret until now, but Quentin Tarantino is an executive producer, and low and behold at the beginning of the movie the first credit is "A Quentin Tarantino Production"

Then the movie starts...in what the first half hour seems like the sequel to Eurotrip, we are treated to three backpackers, 2 Americans, Paxton (Jay Hernandez) and Josh (Derek Richardson) who met up with the Icelandic Oli (Eythor Gundjonsson) in Paris. The three men have somethign in common, they all want to get drunk, drugged and fucked. Things don't work out for them so much in Amsterdam until they meet this dude Alex (Lubomir Vukovy) who tells them that if they were to go to Slovakia that they could get the best chicks to fuck them cause the women there love Americans. At this point i dont get how this would work for Oli, but anyways the three hop aboard on a train and head to Slovakia.

They head to Bratislava, Slovakia where the women walk around naked in the spa, do ecstasy and slut it up at the disco, everything the 3 fellas wanted....that is until their friend Oli goes disappearing.

THIS is where the movie shifts into one of the most INTENSE and crazy horror films that I have witnessed with my own two eyes. I was one of the people who thought that SAW was extremely intense and crazy, but this movie just blows that away. The first Torture scene honestly had my hands clammy and my knees buckling, Derek Richardson convincingly plays off the torture victim like noone i've ever seen, the way this scene was acted was perfection, and i really felt like someone was suffering at this very moment. This is what separated most horror films from this, the acting was SPOT ON. At first Jay Hernandez character of Paxton was very annoying, and very unlikeable, but since he did a tremendous job of acting, he stole the show in the second half once shit hits the fan.


The whole concept of businessmen paying to see people get tortured is disgusting, but its a unique twist in horror films, since there is NO clear cut villain. The gore is crazy, there are drills plunging into peoples cheeks with skin flying everywhere, we get a chainsaw dismembering fingers and shredding someones thighs apart. oh lets not forget slit Achilles tendons, decapaitations, bloody bodies being sewn together, a blowtorch brought upon someones face leaving their eye LITERALLY hanging by a thread only to have the nerve cut shooting out some nasty puss. IT JUST DOESNT END FOLKS!

One of my favorite scenes was definately the revenge Paxton has on 3 people (theres some things you have to see for yourself).

HOSTEL is an intense picture, that is definately no sophmore jinx for Eli Roth, the version we caught was unrated, so im sure some of what we saw will be hacked apart, but he said that he plans on having an unrated version on the dvd, and an alternate ending.

9/10

[zombievictim]

This sounds sweet. Can't fucking wait

[countchocula]

Did you spot the Takashi Miike cameo?

[TeawithBlood]

When is this suppose to come out?

[therealjohng]

I think I heard November....

[TeawithBlood]

November? I could what till then.

[therealjohng]

Originally posted by TeawithBlood
November? I could what till then.

If it's true. I think I read that in a review over AICN. Some fanboy says he thinks he heard November. So for now its a grain of salt.

[Pestilence]

Been hearing nothing but great things about this one, and I hope it's worth the hype...mainly to redeem Roth from the utter disgust I felt after watching Cabin Fever (disgust in that it was utter crap, not that it was disgusting).

At the recent Frightfest London festival, Greg Nicotero had a presentation where he mentioned Hostel as having probably the most intense, gruesome and upsetting torture scenes he's ever seen or worked on. That got me REALLY stoked. Can't wait to see this.....

[countchocula]

Hostel has secured an R rating with minimal cuts...hooray!

[Digifruitella]

I am so disappointed this is not an NC-17 as I heard people rave it would get that!