Classic - Still Cliché'

Rating: 9/10 (24 January 2006)

I actually just got home from seeing Hostel and am extremely satisfied. Out of all the horror movies and all the luridness of my interest in things like rotten.com and death, this movie effected me dramatically. Afterwards I felt light headed, my knees were weak, and my stomach felt like it was churning butter.
It follows a similar scenario to the movie "House of 1000 Corpses", travelers being lead by seemingly kind strangers trying to help them out. Then, finding they were actually lead to their most horrifying nightmares. Also you can see Quentin Tarantino's connection to the film, as Pulp Fiction was playing on one of the TVs in the middle of the film.
After seeing both "Saw" and "Saw II", I thought that gore couldn't be brought to a higher level, and this proved me wrong. I cannot wait for Hostel to come out on video, though only one thing disappointed me. The ending.
The cliché' of the victim running back to what he was running from, in order to stop whatever terror it brings, is far too common in horror films. If I were Paxton, and I heard a woman screaming, that'd be one more reason for me to want to get out as fast as I could. Though he does the heroic thing, goes back and saves her, only to lose her to a train.
In my opinion, the gruesomeness of the movie makes up for this common cliché', and as I said before, I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL IT COMES OUT ON VIDEO!!! =D ~T~