Underrated by Horror Classic Fans and Overrated by Modern Horror Fans

Rating: 8/10 (11 November 2008)

I really can't understand the hate on Hostel. Sure Eli Roth is a dumb ass. Sure, Hostel has a bad setup, some crappy acting, some awful dialog and a some unneeded nudity but come on. What about Last House on the Left (Another movie I liked). It has very bad acting, even worse than the acting in Hostel. There's a lot of great horror movies with bad acting. The Evil Dead, anyone? What i'm trying to say is Hostel is not an excellent movie, it's not great and it's not a classic but it's not one of the worst movies ever made. And it's not a "torture porn" flick. Because if Hostel is torture porn then Last House on the Left and Cannibal Holocaust are torture porn too. Hostel is better than any of those awful remakes that came out in this decade. And one one the best American mainstream horror movies of the last 8 years. Yes, I know this is not saying much but...