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Quentin Tarantino Presents: Hostel (DVD)

 

Description: Genre: Horror / Theatrical Release: 2005 / Director: Eli Roth / Actors: Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson ... / DVD ... more
Quentin Tarantino Presents: Hostel (DVD) ... released 07 August, 2006 at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL / Well-made for the genre--the excessive-skin-displayed-before-gruesome-bloody-torture-begins genre--Hostel follows two randy Americans (Jay Hernandez, Friday Night Lights, and Derek Richardson, Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd) and an even randier Icelander (Eythor Gudjonsson) as they trek to Slovakia, where they're told beautiful girls will have sex with anyone with an American accent. Unfortunately, the girls will also sell young Americans to a company that offers victims to anyone who will pay to torture and murder. To his credit, writer/director Eli Roth (Cabin Fever) takes his time setting things up, laying a realistic foundation that makes the inevitable spilling of much blood all the more gruesome. The sardonic joke, of course, is that Americans are worth the most in this brothel of blood because everyone else in the world wants to take revenge upon them. This dark humor and political subtext help set Hostel above its more brainless sadistic compatriots, like House of Wax or The Devil's Rejects. In general, though, there's something lacking; horror used to suggest some threat to the spirit--today's horror can conceive of nothing more troubling than torturing the flesh. For aficionados, Hostel features a nice cameo by Takashi Miike, director of bloody Japanese flicks like Audition and Ichi the Killer. --Bret Fetzer

Newest Review: ... been assured there are plenty of beautiful women with a liberal attitude towards hanky panky. After this is confirmed later ... more

 ... by some dodgy, eerie looking foreign bloke they meet on a train, they can't wait to get to the Slovakian capital Bratislava. Upon arrival all seems to good to be true and it's not long after they've booked into a room at the hostel that all three are getting their leg over. Little do they know however, that it is all a dastardly trap and after a night at the local disco they become victims of something much more sinister than your average hangover. This is a weak effort all round. It could have been good but turns o...more

christianfilm
Premium Review Quentin Tarantino Presents: Hostel (DVD): Reasons for not going Hostelling this Halloween (1265 words)
by christianfilm - written on 31/10/07 (Very useful, 180 readings)
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> Synopsis 2 American students and their Icelandic friend are currently enjoying the delights of Amsterdam’s sex, booze and drugs culture, as they back-pack across Europe, when they learn about a hostel in Slovakia where the women are easy, especially if you have a foreign accent. With the prospect of easy women to good to be missed the three friends head to the hostel where they discover that it is even better than they believed, except strange things start to happen whilst they are there. > Opinion I had heard and read some great things about Eli Roth's "Hostel" and although was never in a rush to watch it, when ...

dollydancer
Premium Review Bloody Hell (477 words)
by dollydancer - written on 17/03/08 (Useful, 39 readings)
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Quentin Tarantino presents....Hostel. Starring Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson and Shane Daly. Directed by Eli Roth 3 randy guys on a backpacking trip are pointed in the direction of Slovakia for the ultimate chick fest. I don't want to let too much out of the bag in case you haven't seen it yet so I'll just say that the guys got what they wanted, and consequently, a whole lot more. To me, it seems like a reminscent of low-budget gore films such as Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Night of the Living Dead (1968). It primarily features torture, blood, breasts, corpses, guts and gore. It is a dark, bloody exploration of torture and evil. I ...

KinTama
Premium Review Quentin Tarantino Presents: Hostel (DVD): One of the better horror films out there (163 words)
by KinTama - written on 27/07/07 (Somewhat useful, 31 readings)
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I dont like telling people what the synopsis is as you can read it when you click on the icon so i go in to what i thought of the film. Good horror films are hard to come by this one isnt grand but its ok, it keeps you thinking its going to get better and doesnt, has some gruesome torture scenes that make you think ouch but i have to admit the directing does make the film stand out. It has a more realistic feel to it, you dont watch it from the begining going omg they are so daft oh no not another film where they are in the woods with no mobile and they all split up and their car broke down. It doesnt do that to you its like a normal film thats a bit ...

 
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