I've Seen Hostel 10 times and it still Scares the Sh..t out of me.

Rating: 9/10 (27 October 2005)

I wish more Horror movies were this good. Roth doesn't hold back, he's got the balls to not give in to studio pressures to tone down movies in order to increase target audiences. In other words, This is Not a date movie..no way, unless your girlfriend's like mine and she loves blood and guts, literally she works in the morgue at children's hospital. Anyway, I worked on Hostel doing post production, saw the movie at least 10x times and it was still hard for me to watch some of those scenes with the Japanese girl. I had to hold my hands up to my face to block the view.
When I first saw the movie, I knew that Roth had a hit with the serious horror movie buffs. He doesn't hold back. Interestingly, the movie originally had a different ending where the German guy has his little daughter kidnapped by Paxton when they enter the train station (at the end of the movie) and she goes by herself to use the little girls room. But NO Way, that wasn't going to fly, so can you say Re-Shoot, and now look what we've got for an ending. Definitely no holding back with Roth it's nice to see a movie maker turn up the gore rather than tone it down ... Fifty Cent.... . Anyway, I would hope that when the DVD comes out it will include those scenes which the editor cut short that really shows off some of the talent in this movie.. not just the acting talent either.
The reason I didn't give it a 10 is for precisely that reason. I've seen the movie in its longer un-cut form and loved it, but I was disappointed when they cut it and cut it and cut it and shortened many of the good scenes down to a point where they're either gone or made inconsequential.