Once again it isn't safe to travel

Rating: 7/10 (12 April 2008)

It is amazing what you can do with movies. Movies can evoke all types of emotions. The can make you laugh they can make you cry, they can make you love the bad guy and hate the good guy. And in the case with the movie "Hostel", they can make you never want to visit a place that otherwise would normally be appealing to most anyone.
This movie does nothing to alleviate the fears of people who are already afraid to travel abroad. Hostel implicates a small city in Europe as a place where the wealthy act out their horrendous dreams of torture. Just to think that such people exist or that such a complicit place exists makes my skin crawl. Hostel is most effective because of its setting more than the blood and gore that was shown. Just the very idea of such things possibly happening make this movie a horror classic.