makes Scary Movie look like The Shining - truly, truly awful

Rating: 1/10 (16 May 2007)

So. The review quoted on the DVD case of Hostel calls it "The goriest, sickest, bloodiest movie you'll ever, ever see". There are quite clearly a LOT of horror/gore/exploitation movies that this reviewer needs to catch up on. And now, having wasted 90 minutes of my life watching this crap, my only positive feeling is that the film was rented rather than purchased.
Hostel is a good idea put into completely the wrong hands - sorry, Eli Roth, but I'll not bother with this year's sequel. Or the next few films you direct, whatever their content. This movie is poorly conceived, has no credibility at all in its effects, and is repugnantly racist in its portrayal of Eastern Europeans (the only element of the film that disturbed me in any way whatsoever).
Maybe I'm just too jaded and desensitised - possibly something to do with watching the Guinea Pig series far too many times - but Hostel was about as horrific as Bambi and about as engrossing as housework. Avoid at all costs.