Can't wait for part 2!

Rating: 8/10 (21 May 2007)

I was meaning to get round to watching Hostel for a while and yesterday on a boring Sunday afternoon I took the chances of watching it and I was not disappointed. It seem really apparent that anything that gets the Quentin Tarentino's seal of approval is worth a check out. Hostel was a movie that satisfies the gore hound in me , of course if strip everything away it could still be classed as a teen-slasher movie but it is different in the sense where it has these odds moments where one seems to genuinely care about the characters. The plot focus is on 3 back packers trodding around Amsterdame getting stoned,laid etc but then they are given an opportunity to take a ride in the wild side in Slovakia and being 'dumb American teens' they go through with the offer. One thing that Hostel could say has a focus on is the dark nature of humans and how far one is willing to go for the ultimate thrill. Although it as I said earlier one could argue it could be treated as a basic formulaic slasher it just takes the blood and gore level to graphic which makes it all the more amusing. I would recommend this as something different from Europe and is worth a look at , you might be shocked and you might laugh and some bits but it was a ride . My only complaint was that the trailer just gave away a little bit too much so we knew what was coming however Eli Roth has done very well indeed. I just hope that Part 2 satisfies the hunger for my gore better than The Hills Hvae Eyes Part 2 which was just a let down.
HOSTEL 8.9 OUT 10
THERE IS A PLACE , WHERE FOR A PRICE , YOU CAN SCARE , TORTUE AND KILL!