Not what i was expecting

Rating: 6/10 (15 January 2006)

When i first heard of this film i was thinking oh Tarantino is producing it, its made by the cabin fever director, and it looks pretty gory. When i first saw the trailer i thought it looked somewhat like a Saw ripoff. I saw this film last night in a pretty crowded theater. The basic story is 3 friends are in Amsterdam and basically just getting high and looking for girls which they find out are very easy to come by. They here about a hostel with these great girls that will satisfy them so they head out there. Then they find out what awaits them at that hostel. I was pretty disappointed with this movie, the trailers seem to put it out as a real scary gory film when its honestly not. This movie is just about as gory as Saw. There's a lot of humor in the movie which i didn't really know about because the trailers are pretty misleading and really don't let you even know anything about the story. There's a few cool scenes but i was expecting a lot more. This movie is not very good, its definitely better than cabin fever but thats not particularly a good movie. I recently saw wolf creek and think both movies rank around the same score but i would say i enjoyed hostel a tiny bit more. Both movies start out pretty slow and could have been trimmed down in time drastically. If you really wanna go out to the theater and see a horror movie then this is the one to see right now but honestly i would just wait for the DVD. Instead of seeing this movie you might want to maybe rent some of the good newer horror movies like devils rejects, saw, high tension which i all enjoyed much more than hostel.