Give me gory or give me death (how bout both?).

Rating: 6/10 (9 January 2006)

As 2006 opens up so does Hostel. I'll say this: what I got was what I expected and at the same time not what I expected. After seeing the preview for it in Saw 2 I figured I had to see it. I also immediately figured that there was going to be a lot of comparisons of Hostel to Saw 2, and that's perfectly understandable. To those who haven't seen this yet: Hostel, in my humble opinion, makes the gore in Saw 2 look like a Walt Diseny movie. This movie is absolutely brutal. The movie in the first half hour however, leads you to believe you're going to be watching another Girls Gone Wild video instead of seeing brutal scenes of torture. The nudity portion of the movie is consistent with the gore portion. Three friends are traveling around Europe looking to get stoned and get laid. After taken in by a guy in Amsterdam they're told about another country where they're going to get laid pretty much for free. They take a train over there and get exactly what they came for. Soon one of their friends disappears, and then another, until we're left with one character (sorry I'm bad with names). Desperate to find out what happened to his friends he goes on a search into a run down building to find that for a price you can do anything you want to anyone. That's the basic summery. Overall the movie is 45min of smoking pot and naked girls, and 55min of torture. The story isn't that strong but keeps the movie going. The scary thing is, is the fact that this is based upon true events. I'd recommend this to horror movie fans, Saw fans, and gore fans (which normally all run in the same category).