50% gory and 50% hot mess

Rating: 5/10 (12 July 2015)

The first half of the movie is flat out horrible. I would have left it at that and not even bothered finishing the movie if it wasn't for the side of me that needs to always see things through to the end. There's pointless sex and banter between characters that are awkward and one dimensional. You can tell the actors were bored filming this part of the movie because their acting capabilities don't kick in until the latter half - when the gore and torture starts to kick in and then Hostel goes from half-ass borderline soft-core porn to an actual horror movie. Hostel isn't scary, it's more cringe-inducing. As a whole, it's a pretty bad movie but just for the torture scenes I can see why it was touted as being unique for its time.