A Great return to the horror genre but still needs more work

Rating: Null/10 (15 January 2006)

Eli Roth's "Hostel" is the kind of horror movie that film buffs have been waiting for a long time. The horror and gore don't come until later. In fact it felt like I was watching the sequel to "Eurotrip". THe story begins with three friends in Amsterdamn looking for easy sex in the brothels. When they come back they meet up with a guide who tells them about this great hostel in another part of the country that has tons of hot girls living in it. At first when the guys get there. they hook up immediately with some of the women and they have a fun filled night of sex and debauchery. Then the friends begin to disappear one by one and they each end up in this factory where people pay a lot of money to torture and kill another human being. I don't want to give anything more away but what makes this film work is how the audience perceptions about violence change. At the start the violence is very horrifying and disturbing, but by the end I heard crowds cheering. The torture scenes are filled with enough carnage to make you squirm a little but it will never compare to the last fifteen minutes of "Auditon". The thriller by Takeshi Miike who has a cameo appearance in "Hostel" Another thing that made the "Hostel" not as scary as I thought, was the score. The composer was trying to make it sound more like a Hitchcock thriller than a horror movie. I do hope that horror genre will continue in this vain, and try it's best to scare us to our wits end .