hostel.

[BA]

anyone else here seen hostel yet?
and does anyone know what quentin tarantino had to do with it?

i saw it last night and though it was very good.quite sick but good.

[badapple81]

He co produced it only. It was written, directed and co-produced by Eli Roth. Yet I love how at the start they put 'a Tarantino film' 

It was really sick. When the lights in the cinema came on after the movie you literally saw everyone just staring with their mouths open! I thought it might have crossed the line a bit, but in all, it was actually a good movie in terms of the suspence etc.

[sandman]

just watched it. awesome horror flick. sick as hell. DAMN that was intense.

spoiler...

i didn't realize it was a place people could pay to torture and kill until that guy asked how he did it and what he paid for. awesome twist. 

can't wait to see part 2. it comes out june 8 i believe.

[kriss_boy]

I dont normally like horror films as they are rarely original.

I thought hostel was pretty good though because the plot was clever and in the end actually quite belivable.

[Hammy]

Part Eurotrip, Part Horror Film, it was pretty cool, not as awful and graphic as people had made out, i mean there were some scenes that i'm sure got to many people but i find you get to the point that when you have seen so many horror films, you just don't really get shocked anymore....

[fridayfan13]

i am a big eli roth fan, so naturally i love hostel. Some people just cant handle it or understand what its trying to say, but its their loss.

[Izzy]

Bah they kept trying to put a story in there and screw about with all this characterisation nonsense...

Hostel never even tried to be a film.

Honestly, if snuff films are your thing lets head off to Iraq, you and me - we'll wander about a few markets with a camera - and hey, as long as we're in Baghdad we'll catch no less than 100 people killed a day - what fun!

The maybe, if your up for it - we'll go into the basements of a few houses and see Shia and Sunni Muslims torture those of other factions -  then we can film them leaving the bodies by the side of the road. We might even get a beheading on film too!

If you find films like Hostel fun - maybe you should watch the news and see whats happening in Iraq, is it cool there? So why when its done in a studio with actors would it be fun?

This stuff happens - every day, its not make believe it not 'oh but this stuff doesnt really happen' - check the latest UN reports on Iraq, every single day this happens

There comes a point where you have to look at what a film is and the kind of people who enjoy it and really just wonder about our society

[SLCPUNK]

Anybody who actually enjoys sitting through something like this, should probably have their heads checked.

[Sin Cut]

Bah they kept trying to put a story in there and screw about with all this characterisation nonsense...

Hostel never even tried to be a film.

Honestly, if snuff films are your thing lets head off to Iraq, you and me - we'll wander about a few markets with a camera - and hey, as long as we're in Baghdad we'll catch no less than 100 people killed a day - what fun!

The maybe, if your up for it - we'll go into the basements of a few houses and see Shia and Sunni Muslims torture those of other factions -  then we can film them leaving the bodies by the side of the road. We might even get a beheading on film too!

If you find films like Hostel fun - maybe you should watch the news and see whats happening in Iraq, is it cool there? So why when its done in a studio with actors would it be fun?

This stuff happens - every day, its not make believe it not 'oh but this stuff doesnt really happen' - check the latest UN reports on Iraq, every single day this happens

There comes a point where you have to look at what a film is and the kind of people who enjoy it and really just wonder about our society

How the hell do you pull Iraq into some people talking about a film?

When watching it I got the feeling that the movie was so weak that it had to go a bit further in the violence. Is there anyone who didn't feel disgusted when the japanese chick got her eye melted with the blowtorch? Or was it dangling and the guy cut it loose? I can't remember.

Anyway I liked the ending.

[-Jack-]

Hostel was a crappy crappy movie. 

The first hour might as well be Eurotrip! Haha. The violence comes out of nowhere!

The movie could as easily been just as "good" without actually showing the violence and by implying it.

[Izzy]

How the hell do you pull Iraq into some people talking about a film?

Westerners loving films about torture

Horrifying reality for Iraqis

We going to fast for u? I'll try my point again but this time using sock puppets just for u, happy?

[Izzy]

Anybody who actually enjoys sitting through something like this, should probably have their heads checked.

My thoughts exactly

'but it doesnt happen in real life....'

Oh wait, it does - every single day

[nycangel]

i am a huge horror movie fan, its my favorite genre, and honestly i didnt like this movie at all. i was watching it with my boyfriend who also loves horror movies and thought  it was just disguisting, and we turned it off half way. i did however finish the rest of it after that and still thought nothing of it.

[mega_music]

i am a huge horror movie fan, its my favorite genre, and honestly i didnt like this movie at all. i was watching it with my boyfriend who also loves horror movies and thought  it was just disguisting, and we turned it off half way. i did however finish the rest of it after that and still thought nothing of it.

I am the same way, All I heard was this movie is so disgusting yada yada yada. I was yawning for the cheese gore, and bored most of the time. Horror movies now a days are so stale. I hope Rob Zombie can help with Halloween this year.

[Sin Cut]

How the hell do you pull Iraq into some people talking about a film?

Westerners loving films about torture

Horrifying reality for Iraqis

We going to fast for u? I'll try my point again but this time using sock puppets just for u, happy?

dude that's so lame, it's just a movie, get over it.

[GnFnR87]

there is a sequel and i believe its coming out soon. Hostel didnt really do much for me not sure if i'll check it out.

[sandman]

i love horror movies. if that's not your thing, cool. did the Religious Right take over this thread? 

The world is filled with evil. You certainly don?t have to go to iraq to see it. It?s in our own back yards. Everyday.

For me, that?s a small part of the appeal - that sadly, it IS real. Many people have faced similar fates. And it could happen to anyone.   


"by showing us the miseries of the damned, they help us to rediscover the smaller (but never petty) joys of our own lives."

[Skeba]

I liked the film. Still don't think I'm a sick fuck. But I should let someone else be the judge of that.