Gore is not horror

Rating: 1/10 (16 January 2006)

After enduring Hostel it finally became clear to me why some people slow down to get a good view of a bloody auto accident. Hostel, if one is honest in their thinking, is just another slasher film with better gore effects, which keeps those entranced with such effects happy. And as always in slasher films, the story is very lame to say the least. But then again they have to be, because to do otherwise might require the viewer to actually think! To be classified as a horror film, Hostel is not. And to those that don't understand, or may resent what I'm saying here, go find, beg, or borrow a copy of John Frankenheimers 'Seconds' and let your imagination do the rest.