I just got back from the theatre...

Rating: 6/10 (8 January 2006)

...and told my wife that "Hostel" will likely be the last horror flick I watch for a while. I want to wash off.
Good points; It is a well made film and is especially successful at putting the viewer in the victim's place. Not that pushing the envelope is always a good thing, but if you think seeing on film what might be in your darkest fantasies, then it's a good thing. It took balls to go where this flick goes.
Bad points; I don't know about the uncut version, but cutting 20 or 30 minutes out of the first half of the film would make it better (unless you need a lot of T&A to warm you up to the gore). It felt like 2 movies - the first half (T&A)and the second half (what you see on the previews). Maybe it was an expectation thing for me, but the way it was hyped, I figured to see the camera stay on some scenes just a little too long - which would have fit the premise of "Hostel" better, but maybe it was designed that way and it wound up on the editing room floor. It would be interesting to see the uncut version.
I gave it a 6 mostly because it took to long to get to the "payoff", but if that's the "Audition Tradition", then what do I know?