Eli Roth is a horror genius!

Rating: 10/10 (29 March 2007)

Eli Roth is essentially the Quentin Tarrantino of Horror. There. I said it. The man takes influences from all over and fuses them together into his own, creative projects and Hostel is no different. You got the Torture from The Audition and Reservoir Dogs, you got the basic premise of American Werewolf in Paris (two American tourists in a foreign country find themselves in a bloody situation) and of course Eli Roth's own creative spins (those little kids rocked!).
But the cherry to this very tasty Cake has to be the inner social commentary Roth laid under the subtext. He tackles the subject of "getting a high." Essentially, basically Hostel asks what happens when you can no longer find a high to reach. What happens when drugs, sex, extreme sports and just about any other method to achieve that state no longer brings you there? What will you turn too? What will some people be willing to do in order to feel that high again, or at least a new form of it? And it's true, our society is a violent on in nature, so it's not that hard to believe that someone in that state of mind would be willing to PAY to kill someone else.
Anyway, that's all I have to say for this film. It was a brilliant film, one of the best horror films of the last decade. Eli Roth and the splat pack are bringing the balls and feeling back into Horror. Long live Eli Roth, Alexandre Aja, Rob Zombie, Neil Marshell and James Wan! The new horror gods!