Essentially just a soft porn movie with gore

Rating: Null/10 (6 August 2006)

I love horror movies, but not this one.
The characters are just dogs on heat in a bad soft porn movie. An hour in and I just wanted to take to them all with a shotgun myself.
The film didn't scare me once, but it was pretty revolting to watch these boys just trying to shag anything that stopped still long enough. They were completely loathsome (and far too old to be backpacking). I found myself thinking 'good, another one has gone missing. Hurry up and bump off the last one.' It was a shame really because the actual plot is quite clever and could have been really scary, but it just wasn't. It must have taken a lot of effort to turn a good little idea into such a tedious piece of film.
Some of the gore was done well, but I finally lost interest when a key piece of gore near the end was so badly done that it made the old 'B' movies look like make-up masterpieces.
Pity. I'd been looking forward to seeing Hostel and have been left just feeling disappointed. I can't see this ending up being a cult classic. There was nothing new in there, nothing clever about it even. Completely wasted opportunity in my opinion.