A good overall Horror Movie

Rating: 7/10 (1 April 2006)

I went into watching Hostel with the hope that it will be something that will stick with me like films such as Stagefright: Aquarius or Suspira. It was close but, sadly, not close enough.
The opening scene is the one part of the movie that, to me, sticks out. The simplicity and subtle brutality of the lone figure cleaning one (of many it turns out) of the torture rooms whilst whistling nonchalantly is a vivid and unsettling opening to a movie. The "Whistle while you work" sub-text within the scene is also very clever.
From there the film takes the viewer on varying journeys. From drug-fuelled sex-a-thons in Amsterdam to a well deserving revenge in a railway toilet via un-deniably horrific scenes of torture.
All in all I was impressed with the film as a whole but was left with the feeling that it could of been so much more.
On a final note was it me or does that eye makeup on the Japenese Girl look just like the make up used in the Horror/Comedy April Fools Day? Maybe just me hey! Thanks for reading.
Matt