short thoughts on Hostel

Rating: 6/10 (8 January 2006)

{spoilers ahead} for all the hype my friends and the commercials put on this film, i left the theater feeling somewhat unfufilled. let it be known that Hostel is pretty damn graphic, but some of the things were so disgusting that i found myself laughing at its extremities instead of being scared. i mean there's {SPOILER!} people getting ran over, limbs getting cut off, pussing eyes, and lots of vomiting in between. i hope i don't sound weird for laughing during all this, but seriously the whole theater (which was full as hell) was laughing along with me. another thing that hurt the film is that the first 30-40 minutes is like a giant sex-fest, with very little scares...hell basically no scares at all. all in all hostel strives on gore, and i found that it does little to actually scare its audience. try the original Texas chainsaw massacre, and maybe even saw, but all in all i think Hostel will only provide an hour and thirty some-odd minutes of "ooh"-ing and "ouch"-ing.