never again

Rating: 1/10 (26 March 2006)

I saw hostel a couple of days ago with my boyfriend. if he hadn't been there, I would have left the moment i heard the drilling sound.
What irritates me in this film most is the view of Slovakia. I am aware that Roth's aim wasn't to give the people a geographical course on this country, but from my point of view, he misused it. He took a not well known country and presented it in a way he thought that would be attractive for an average (American) viewer. I don't think it is unnatural, if i watch a film where my country is described as a land of no younger than 40 year-old men and 20 year-old money-hunting prostitutes.
Choose an exciting plot, place the story into a country no one knows and modify it according to ur imagination, tell everyone u worked on it with Tarantino, claim that true events inspired u, put as many naked women and sex scenes as it gets and find a guy who can do a pretty cool whistling...this is what i call Roth's recipe for a horror...and it worked...Eli Roth is currently the most unpopular American in SK (ok sorry, the second most unpopular - after Bush) but on the other hand, what he achieved was brilliant - he made a fortune by making a movie which people love or hate. and that's what it is all about - it is discussed - people go and see it, even those who'd like to see Roth being cut with a chainsaw.
If Eli Roth's goal was to make me keep my eyes closed for the half of the movie and make my stomach twist in my body, he succeeded. Anyway, a really good horror movie is not about rivers of blood and hanging eyeballs. For me, a horror scares u quietly, gets into your brain, makes your imagination work. This film wasn't scary. It was just gross.