A Little Too Disturbing For Me.

Rating: 4/10 (30 January 2009)

Hostel is a basic Horror Gore film. I really am not a fan of films like this and after seeing this film I still am not a fan of films like this.
Basically the story involves three guys who back pack across Europe. Soon they are each taken to a dungeon where they are tortured to death by people who pay to torture people to death.
The idea is pretty scary. I mean people who pay to torture people to death is disturbing. I have heard that stuff like this really goes on but I do not even want to think about that. If this film intended on disturbing people by making them think that it could really happen then it worked on me.
The gore is bad at parts and not bad at others. For example they do not really show people as they get tortured, they just show what they look like after they have been tortured. However seeing what they look like basically gets the job done as you do not really have to see the process they go through to see the end result. The weak stomached should stay away from this one. THere is one really really really bad part involving a blow torch and an Asian girl. I'll leave it at that.
Basically another problem this film had was transitions. They would go from guys getting high to guys finding out about a place where they could get laid to guys getting hit on by older guys. It just was poorly transitioned. At one part they showed a girl about to have her toe cut off and as it was about to be cut off they cut to a scene of a girl cutting her toe nails. The flow is pretty bad as well. The acting was actually well done though, but sometimes a good script is just as important as good acting.
I know that there are people out there who like films like this but I really did not like this film. Bad transitions, disturbing plot, and a little too much gore for me. I do not really recommend it unless you are a fan of horror films.