What A Way to Start The Year!!!

Rating: 10/10 (25 January 2006)

Well, all i can say is wow. I waited in anticipation to see this movie for so long, and it did not let me down.
Hostel is without doubt, the coolest, most sickening and believe it or not almost genuinely believable horror flick that perhaps i have seen. This film kicks so much ass, it is actually quite painful.
And all this from a film that is cut so heavily its almost criminal to watch it in this very shadow like state.
The one thing i cant understand is why people have commented when they say they hate it. How can you hate a movie like this? It has everything a good horror movie should have. It has good acting, it moves at a good pace, there is nice humour, likable characters, sexy ladies and the gore.... oh the gore.
And i couldn't help but notice that someone actually had the nerve to claim that "white noise" and "house of wax" actually done horror movies a favour. What a joke that is. I mean where do you get the idea that some guy using E.P.T to look for people to kill, or a town where people go to and "get turn into wax works" is actually better than this?? Are you insane?? Take it from me, horror movies are not movies. I don't want to go and see a horror movie, and leave saying "hey that was a good story man". I want to leave a horror movie with an overwhelming feeling to deposit the popcorn i foolishly ate back out onto the carpet. And Hostel does it like no other movie that is out there...FACT.
If you are someone who appreciates a good horror movie and not thriller crap like the ones above stated, then you are going to love this movie. You WONT be disappointed.
And to everyone else who sees "Quentin Tarantino" on the poster. This isn't an ultra cool gangster or revenge flick. Its an all out attack of everything that makes you cringe, and question the very morale fibre of human existence in the 21st Century. Its sick, its nasty and basically its downright in your face. So my advice would be to forget the "tarantino" element, and think more Cabin Fever gore multiplied by 10.
The film i have to say is very well made. There are lots of laughs and some nice settings also. Its very well directed, and there does seem to be a major improvement in Roths ability to make a proper movie, and not just an excuse to make you feel sick, much like Cabin Fever was.
I also liked the fact there was no subtitles. As at some parts in the film, it really added a nice touch, as you didn't have an idea what was being said, much like the American characters in the film didn't either. It added to the general confusion of the situation they found themselves in.
This film is Class, Pure Class. And the truth is your not going to see a film in the Horror genre that is so Raw, Original and emotionally challenging as this, until Eli Roth makes another one.