Really good, but not living up to the hype

Rating: 9/10 (30 April 2006)

I just came back from watching the Hostel premiere in Germany and am a little bit confused on what to think. I went into the cinema with extremely high expectations, having seen the well-chosen trailer I could not help but be amazed and excited about it. I expected one very unique movie with extreme, never-seen before perversity and gore. What I saw then was still a very good movie with not as much pornography as I feared and as others have posted in here, and some very good horror scenes. What I didn't like was the shortness of the movie. I think, there could have been way more of the gore as it didn't seem cheap or forced into the film. The perverse scenes rather seemed like a prefect fit for the movie, but in my eyes, Eli Roth didn't go as far as I hoped. I really hoped I would get to see something that would make my blood get ice-cold and my teeth tremble in agony, but Hostel just didn't cross enough lines. Still, a very good movie out of a very good idea, but more could have been done with it.