Either you'll Like it or hate it

Rating: 7/10 (18 April 2006)

I was drawn to this film with low expectations, as I have been for the last several years with horror. Understanding that this was to be a shock and gore fest, and not a revolutionary new horror film, I was not disappointed. Honestly, I was delightfully surprised. Some felt that it took all the old cliché's and ruined them. I think they've forgotten that these old cliché's of teenagers backpacking, through the US, Europe, Australia, or where ever. These groups of people traveling and running into some type of horrific terror has the most probable suspension of disbelief. That is to say "Could this actually happen?" With Hostel, that's a resounding yes, this is something that really and actually happen. Whereas some movies end and the viewer says to themselves, "Yeah, right, that isn't even possible." Hostel can leave one asking what they might don in this same situation. I felt that all of the T & A added to the story, and I'm all in favor of any movie with that much T & A.
To simplify, when it comes to Horror, ask yourself, next time you watch a horror movie, could this really happen? and if your answer is yes, then you know the movie scored.