Yeah, I just saw the movie today with my dad. Damn, I was kinda embarrased that I was so psyched about it, and the begginning through early middle is practically soft-core porn. But finally the good stuff came around the middle. There was a lot of gross and made-you-wince moments. It was pretty good.
So in conclusion, if your a teenage boy, you'll be so crazy about this movie.
Originally posted by MildPossession
Is the gore hyped up like it was on Cabin Fever?
Cabin Fever wasn't very good to me, I thought it was pretty bad, and it had its gross parts, but there is a lot more grossness when the middle of Hostel comes around. Otherwise, the beginning is all about boobs and sex, and drugs. But, the gore later makes up for all the wasted time from sex 🙂, it was good!
Originally posted by Zilverz
i read that the raw version of the film was really brutal .. and to get an R rating they were going to have to lose some great scenes.. soo im sure there will be an Unrated DVD that has all the insane goodness in it
Holy cow......really? I need to rent the DVD once it comes out then!
I didn't like Cabin Fever at all, before I saw it I heard loads on how gory it was, full up to the brim with gore. I saw it and was very disappointed with it as a whole. I'd rather watch my X-Files episode of Darkness Falls, or various other parasites removing skin episodes...
But will give Hostel a chance.
Originally posted by MildPossession
I didn't like Cabin Fever at all, before I saw it I heard loads on how gory it was, full up to the brim with gore. I saw it and was very disappointed with it as a whole. I'd rather watch my X-Files episode of Darkness Falls, or various other parasites removing skin episodes...But will give Hostel a chance.
Yeah.....I didn't like Cabin Fever either. It.....I just didn't like it, 🙂, but, I think you should like Hostel, but don't get your hopes up TOO high, even though it is a good movie.
Originally posted by Zilverz
i read that the raw version of the film was really brutal .. and to get an R rating they were going to have to lose some great scenes.. soo im sure there will be an Unrated DVD that has all the insane goodness in it
Watching an NC-17 movie seems like it would take the excitement out of it. When you watch an R you're thinking "Wow, how far can they push the limits on this one" but when its an NC-17 you already know its going to be brutal so there's nothing to really anticipate. Anyways...
Somebody tell me a good/brutal scene thats in the movie.
taken from imdb.com
9 January 2006
The Horror! 'Hostel' Wins Box Office Crown
In a shocker that rivaled anything in the movie itself, Lionsgate's horror movie Hostel debuted at the top of the box office with an estimated $20.1 million over the weekend. It pushed the previous No. 1 film, Disney's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe, which brought in about $15.4 million, into second place. Universal's King Kong dropped to third with about $12.5 million. The strong showing of Hostel, which played in only 2,195 theaters, left analysts aghast. "Hostel tops Narnia and we're all going to hell," headlined cinematical.com. The Associated Press described the box office results as "sheer torture." The British website monstersandcritics.com grudgingly remarked, "Not a bad bit of instant profit for a cheaply made splatter flick." Reel Source analyst Chad Hartigan told Bloomberg News that the film marks "a return to really sick, unsettling images, and that seems to be what the young audience is looking for." However, Exhibitor Relations President Paul Dergarabedian maintained that the results did not surprise him. "Horror films are like gold at the box office," he told E! Online. "Audiences love to be scared and enjoy these types of films in the communal environment of the theaters." Meanwhile, Focus Features added another 214 theaters to the 269 already showing Brokeback Mountain, and saw its ticket sales jump 59 percent. It averaged $11,881 per screen, substantially higher than the $9,157 per-screen average of Hostel. Focus was particularly heartened by the fact that many of the new theaters were located in suburban areas, where the film, which concerns the tortured romance of two gay cowboys, was expected to be shunned. Steven Spielberg's Munich, from Universal, also expanded -- to 1485 screens -- and increased its take over last week by 56 percent, finishing sixth. On the other hand, two films that made their debuts over the weekend, Grandma's Boy (from Adam Sandler's production company) and BloodRayne, flopped, failing even to make the top ten.
"Hostel", in a word, was crap. Interesting concept, poor execution. It was NOTHING like the previews made it seem, and yes, tagging on Tarantino's name and making the trailers so vague drew people in. This is a skid mark on QT's namesake if you ask me.
Eli Roth is getting there, but this movie was just sloppy. BTW, Miike's cameo was a 2 speaking line role when Svetlana and Dex arrive at the "museum", where he warned them to be careful, because most don't make it out alive. (OOOOOH! 🙄 )
What LITTLE effects there were, which were carried about by Nicotero, were average at best. A few severed digits here and there, as well as a totally fake
Spoiler:
eyeball having to be cut from an Asian girls skull. The eye was dangling from a flat spot, no eye socket mind you, Jay snipped it, then this yellow ooze poured out. It was pretty schlocky.
Someone said the violence wasn't merely implied? That was BS. There were A LOT of implications, a few squeamish scenes, and what was the highlight of it all, Jay Hernandez's insane bathroom sequence.
At the end of the day though, it was a mess. Just horribly misogenic, too many conflicting elements and styles, and while the story was very intriguing, to me, it was ruined by all the pinache Roth though he had.