One of the worst movies I have ever seen

Rating: 1/10 (7 April 2006)

This was truly one of the worst films I think I have ever seen, although I do take my hate off to Mr Roth and Mr Tarantino for pulling one of the greatest con jobs of all time. This film sold itself on it's sickening, god awful violence and for my money it just wasn't there. I am extremely squeamish - I actually passed out at 'Hannibal', but I didn't even have to look away at any point in this film. The violent bits were actually few and far between and there was only one short scene that was pretty bad. Half of it doesn't look real and the rest is just crap.
The reason I went to see it is because I thought the way it was done might make it an atmospheric, solid genre piece. It is not. Mr Roth has been insulting films like 'The Grudge' saying they are PG-13 horror films with no real bite. Well I disagree completely. Watching people slice each other up does not scare me, it just makes me feel sick. 'The Grudge' and 'The Blair Witch Project' were scary because of the atmosphere they created. 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' and 'Wolf Creek' were both gory AND scary as they created a scary atmosphere, made you identify with the characters and THEN chopped them up. Hostel is not scary because it does not make any effort with storyline or character development. I did not care about these characters, so when they had their tendons slashed etc etc I could not care less. And there simply is NO storyline whatsoever. Also, the tag line to the film says there is a place where all your sickest fantasies can be indulged. Well if people really do fantasise about doing this sort of thing to people we are living in a sad world. And to be honest, I don't think anyone does fantasise about this sort of thing. I have friends that have gone to jail for violent offences and they would absolutely never fantasise about this sort of thing. So right away there is a huge plot flaw.
Awful, awful, awful film and not scary in the slightest. Well done to Roth and Tarantino again though. I'm off to write a script about a theme park where everyone gets the worst, most horrific things happening to them as long as they can pay for it. Its gonna be well gory. Expect to see it at the top of the US box office.