Anybody see Hostel?

[leftofthedial]

what's the scoop?

I love the gory, violent horror genre.

[leftofthedial]

1. not a liberally pure genre, eh?

[xmas74]

5. Wish I'd seen it.

I love those kind of movies.

[unsavedtrash]

2. my younger sister said it was weak and to see Saw II instead. She loves

those kinds of movies and said that Saw II was almost too much for her. Made her turn away and felt sick. I am not down with horror flicks but I hope this helps.

[leftofthedial]

9. I don't know if I'm down with the Saw thing

I don't want one-dimensional gratuitous gore--I get that in real life.

I want some style, some tittilation, some suspense, some I-can't-believe-anyone-would-think-of-that depravity . . .

not just carving, gore and blood. Did your sister say anything about those elements of Saw II?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. I thought Saw II was bad, they just "mailed in" the sequel... wife really

liked the first one, it was more intense and they had better actors.

[Madrone]

3. Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked.

Not at all what I was expecting - I was expecting something worthy of the name TARANTINO. I was sorely disappointed.

Basically - it's like some 13 year old boys wrote it, and the plot? The plot devolves to something like "How many titties can we cram into the first 2/3 of this movie before moving on to what we've tricked everyone into believing is the actual STORY?"

I own every movie Tarantino ever had any involvement in (that I'm aware of) - this one will not be joining my collection.

So, in summary,

Titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties, some fucking going on with others in the same room watching, titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties, some fucking going on w/ 2 couples in different beds in the same room at the same time, titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties, hey! where'd our friend go??,titties,titties,titties, blood and gore.


Save your money. And your time.

[pokerfan]

4. I'm in!!! You had me at ''Freedom Bags''

Titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties, blah blah blah blah blah blah in different beds blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties,titties, hey! blah blah blah blah titties, titties,titties, blah and blah .

[leftofthedial]

7. you say "titties" like it's a bad thing

LOL

I was hopeful that it was at least a little suspenseful or scary

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

6. Not out here yet, but I saw "Wolf Creek" last week and boy it's brilliant

I went into it knowing next to fuck all about the plot, other than it had really divided critics into some who thought it was an excellent return to the good ol' days of early Craven & Hooper and those who walked out / hated every fibre of its being.

I think I read it got a cinema release in the US just before the New Year, so it may still be around - else you could import the UK DVD. I can't see "Hostel" matching up to it to be honest. A couple of critics:

"Wolf Creek is a swaggeringly nasty, self-assured piece of ordeal horror set in the Australian outback. With nods to Duel and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, first- time writer-director Greg McLean shows the neo-goreheads from the US and UK how it ought to be done. (...) This is the best Australian movie since Lantana, and deserves an audience outside the horror fanbase."

http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Critic_Review/Guardian_review/0,4267,1571117,00.html

"I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking."

"I went to the Rotten Tomatoes roundup of critics not for tips for my own review, but hoping that someone somewhere simply said, "Made me want to vomit and cry at the same time.""

"There is a line and this movie crosses it. I don't know where the line is, but it's way north of "Wolf Creek.""

"If anyone you know says this is the one they want to see, my advice is: Don't know that person no more."

- Roger Ebert, who gave it zero stars (I won't post the link as he gives away a scene which you shouldn't really know about IMO in the first paragraph).


Also, have you heard about Miike Takashi's film for the "Masters of Horror" series? Showtime pulled it because - in the words of the series producer (from memory) it is "the most disturbing thing I have ever seen." Anchor Bay USA will be releasing it on DVD however.

[leftofthedial]

8. I want to see that, but it lasted in theaters about 35 minutes.

I think it's showing at a "dollar theater" in a bad part of town.

That might work.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

10. That might even be better. :)

Just to push a bit of British, a couple of films to look out for -

Neil Marshall's The Descent, which IIRC opens in the US in July. A group of girls go caving and it all goes a bit wrong ... Very atmospheric and nicely put together, although I think it'll suffer internationally from the fact that the The Cave will have been generally released first.

Evil Aliens - a highly anticipated (well by me, anyway) splatstick romp, with the great Bouff (Pervirella, Crade of Fear). Jake West, the director, made the trailer available on his site a couple of days ago, but it seems to be down for now - http://www.jakewest.com/

[leftofthedial]

12. thanks for tips

the soft steady drip of a leaky roof, a sticky floor unwashed for a decade, crooked metal seats, cold temperature due to the dodgy furnace, recycled cups at the concession stand, a desolate semi-industrial landscape lit only by the lewd licking flames of a car fire in the lot across the street . . .

late show at the cheap theater it is.

[DainBramaged]

13. Sad little movie, the gore will be on the "Unrated DVD".

Tarantino should have been ashamed to put his name on the project. Crappy little "B" movie, predictable, bad acting, bad edits. Not worth $9.00 each. But strangely enough, none of my kid's friends would go. They thought it would be just another hamburger meat special.

More like bad cuts thrown away.

[bigwillq]

14. I thought it was awful.

:puke:

I'm not really grossed out by anything but this movie was sick.
There was no point to the gore though. It seemed like they made it to see just how much they could get away with.