1/10...The worst film I've ever seen

Rating: 1/10 (15 January 2006)

Stay away from this "film". It's not art. It's not entertainment. It's not even a decent "B" movie or "slasher" flick. It's not scary, suspenseful, or even thrilling. It's just sick and full of purely gratuitous gore, nudity, torture, and bong-resin-coated sex. The actors are without merit. Not one of them is convincing in the slightest. But, then again, who can really blame them? The "characters" they are asked to "portray" are at best hollow and amount to little more than props to be ogled or skewered whenever the "script" calls for it. I would say that the "story" is awful too, but since there is no story or plot then all one can say of the story is that it is curiously absent.
Technically, however, this film deserves some mention. The "blood and guts" effects are some of the worst of any feature film I've seen. Ever. Truly abysmal. But they are the films strongest feature.
Hostel deserves every bit of an NC-17 rating. The MPAA really dropped the ball on this one. This "film", which is basically a porn film for the first 20 minutes or so, is pointless and devoid of any redeeming qualities. It has nothing to say about anything except "Hey, look at these people doing it!" and "Hey, look at these idiots get stoned while 'having sex'!" or, "Hey, watch this idiot follow some strange European girl whom he's only been "sleeping with" for a day into a dark, abandoned warehouse!"
Then, of course, the "film makers" expect us to be surprised when all hell breaks loose on this dullard of a character.
Utterly worthless. If I could give it a zero, I would.