Eli Roth Deserves To Be Recognized

Rating: 9/10 (26 May 2006)

I have been through a year of constant torture scenes (Saw 1 and 2, Wolf Creek, House Of Wax). Yet these scenes failed to shock me as I was used to this kind of stuff after spending a year watching crummy horrors like Jason X and Alien Vs Predator. Yet once I heard about Hostel I decided to see it. I couldn't as it received an R rating (or NC-17 for the Americans reading). I was furious when the ushers refused to grant me entry, thinking that the high level violence that I could've been witnessing at that very moment couldn't possibly be as bad as the ratings say. I was proved wrong when I witnessed the violence on DVD. For the first time in 4-5 years I have been truly shocked and scared of a modern horror. Eli Roth deserves to be recognized for this bundle of porn, blood and power drills. His previous movie 'Cabin Fever' was, in my words, fantastic but this movie tops it by far. Nothing beats watching some clot chained to a chair with a chainsaw inches away from his face. The minor cutbacks, however, are the stereotypical Americans in Amsterdam but that doesn't matter when they look like Calvin Klein models one minute and diced ham the next. I cannot wait to see Roth's next movie and I won't care for the rating, even if I'm underage.