the WORST movie i have ever seen

Rating: 1/10 (29 January 2006)

this movie was without a doubt the WORST movie i have ever seen. now, keep in mind that i really enjoyed the director's previous effort "cabin fever," and i thought that his inspiration "audition" was a fantastic, suspenseful film. the first half of "hostel" was essentially soft core porn, with meaningless boob shots and sex scenes (and again, i am all for a little gratuitous nudity, but this was way more than an r-rated movie should have entailed...for instance, at one point a character whips out a digital camera, and not only has to show one picture of women engaged in various sex acts, but goes on to scroll through, i dunno, 15 to 20 pictures. did we really need to see all of these to get the idea? and later in the film, we see a security guard who is, of course, watching lesbian porn that the camera then focuses in on). the "gross" shots just went ridiculously far (things couldn't just pop out, they had to be then cut off and then ooze), and perhaps what was worse, this movie just wasn't scary in the least. i went in hoping to be scared, and i wasn't at ANY point at all in this movie. essentially, it seemed that the director thought, "i want to make a movie that all straight high school boys will want to see, but can't." so, if the director's intent was to make a juvenile, non-scary pile of crap, well...he was successful at it. if it was possible on this board, i would have given it zero stars. truly.