Not torture porn, but a real horror movie.

Rating: 8/10 (15 May 2008)

I really loved Hostel... it is a very, very good movie, regardless of what many people think. People can't seem to see beyond the violence or the gore.
The photography, the editing, the acting, the score, the script... everything was top notch. It is really well made. There are a bunch of 'torture-porn' (but really, TORTURE-PORN) flicks like 'Violent Sh#t' or 'Porno Holocaust' out there with zero production values, just made for the hell of it (which i suppose they're fun in a way, but basically they are pieces of garbage)... People don't seem to realize how well made a movie like Hostel is.
I believe Torture Porn is not fitting at all for Hostel. Hostel is a very tense, very disturbing, nightmarish look at human nature. It's a Horror movie in every sense of the word, and stylistically it's very much like an Italian Giallo.
Right now, in times when you get a lot 'just for the sake of being gory movies', Hostel can't be taken away from that context, but I assure you... Hostel will be a Horror classic, cause it's really well done and it actually has something to say.