Hostel

Rating: 9/10 (26 October 2005)

"Much like Takashi Miike, Eli Roth wraps biting social commentary in a bloody shroud. While Audition was a straightforward critique of traditional Japanese attitudes toward women disguised as a stalker film, and Ichi the Killer was a brutal response to the category 3 gore-hounds need for excess, Eli Roth has taken the opportunity to question our deepest human values, ironically, in the guise of an exploitation flick.
Part fairy tale and part nightmare, the film asks "What could you let yourself do if you did not have to account for your actions?" "What is a human life worth?"
Like another great festival film, "Harsh Times" (which I saw in the same day), the film peels back the veneer of civilization we all have, to reveal a bloody, selfish propensity for the negation of another human being."

comments from reviewer's earlier post.

I haven't actually seen this movie, so this post isn't really a rating (although all of the excellent ratings so far made me give it a 9), but I read the comments of a reviewer from Toronto from which the above excerpt is from (I wasn't able to put your name is this review - IMDb wouldn't let me) and didn't know how else to get in touch with them.
On the off chance that they see this post I'd appreciate discussing this movie more. I'm a bit of a contradiction because I'm horror fan with a weak stomach, but this movie seems too good to pass up. Anyway, I found their review to be very in-depth and interesting and I'd love to hear from them, so my email address is: SKYELARKE@HOTMAIL.COM