Hostel

Pros: Fantastic Settings, Good Acting, Premise
Cons: Some Classify This as "Just Another Tortue Gore Based Horror Film" When It's Much More

Although I have mixed feelings about director/writer Eli Roth's first film, Cabin Fever, overall I liked the direction he took. He just needed a more horror-related premise, and more chilling execution. Enter Hostel, his sophomore horror film. Does ...

Pros: This is real chop-shop horror.
Cons: Material may be disturbing.

The opening of Hostel (2005) is suspiciously charming with a man whistling and cleaning shower tiles and various blood stained tools. The scene then changes to the three main characters Paxton (Jay Hernandez), Josh (Derek Richardson), and Oli (Eythor ...

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This was a fairly disturbing film that I can only qualify as lsquo;slasher flick'. It wasn't horror, although it was certainly horrible in mannerism, and it isn't monster, although it serves up several two-legged monsters disguised as humans. ...

Pros: Suppose it's not a remake, Barbara Nedeljakova and Jennifer Lim are pleasing on the eye
Cons: Where would you like me to begin?

Though I’ve never actually seen it, James Wan’s Saw is a movie that has caused me, as a horror movie fan, a lot of distress. The genre was finally starting to grow some balls and move away from the trend of Teen Slasher flicks that were ...

Pros: There is a definite artistic structure. Effectively blends "despicable" with "entertaining".
Cons: It can easily disturb, disgust, and be deemed plain debauchery.

I'm going to compare Eli Roth's Hostel to Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ - forgive me if I'm offending fans of Hostel. One movie is intended as a spiritual, morality lesson; ...

Pros: Interesting concept, some brutal scenes, lots of gorgeous naked women
Cons: Implausibilities, lacks genuine shocks and suspense, not as gory as you're led to believe

Hostel has had more marketing and hype than just about any film released in the past year. One of it's ads features a narrator issuing a warning to all would be viewers. In a ultra-serious voice he claims that during a test showing, paramedics ...

Pros: Roth lives up to the standards of his mentor Tarantino...
Cons: May be too violent for most audiences...

Eli Roth's over-the-top action/adventure flick drives so deep into his mentor Quentin Tarantino's territory that he has crashed into the realm of the slasher movie. Hostel, like other films of the Tarantino/David Lynch style, is set on a ...

Pros: acting is alright, some interesting character development, at least two good action/suspense scenes
Cons: not scary, just disturbing...nothing new, another gore fest, unmemorable

It just seems that horror movies can't be scary anymore. I wonder if it only seems that way now since I am an adult and simply do not scare as easily as I did as a kid, or if directors and producers are simply not scary anymore. I don't know which it ...

Pros: Good gore effects.
Cons: Leaves you feeling more muck covered than the theatre floor.

There are controversial movies that live up to the promise of being something unique, something different, something that captivates an audience that while revolting them or surprising them it still becomes a movie that you can recommend to others. This ...

Pros: Cruel, twisted idea
Cons: Eli Roth still hasn't made a "good" horror movie

On a back packing tour of Europe, two young American guys, Paxton and Josh, hook up with a zany European named Oli and head off to Amsterdam to experience every hedonistic delight that they can find. In the clubs of the Dutch city they find plenty of ...

Pros: The acting was very good.
Cons: Not as gory as promised. Not scary.

Alright, I've read what seems to be hundreds of reviews and every review seems to miss the point entirely. This film promises to be the scariest movie in 10 years. This film promises to be SO graphic and SO gory that audience members needed ...

Pros: Demented as hell
Cons: too disturbing for some viewers

Eli Roth is a few years older than me but already has a solid vision for what Horror is. I've seen his previous effort titled Cabin Fever but it was a bad used copy of the film, but what he did with this one is take the film aspect of the genre to a ...

Pros: acting not too bad, decent plot/storyline
Cons: not quite enough gore, ending highly improbable

I had been wanting to see this movie since it came out on the 6th of January. I was planning on seeing it Saturday with some friends, but when I showed up to the theater, we somehow ended up buying tickets to Fun With Dick and Jane, while not ...

Pros: grear thrilling scenes after the killings subside..interesting plot and great twist
Cons: gore-filled first hour was excessive...misused homoerotic context thrown in....holes in plot

The horror genre has been rampant of late with over the top slash-killings, enough gore to frighten even the hardest heart and impossibly corny endings that make viewers laugh rather than cringe with suspense. An hour into "Hostel" and I was ready to ...

Pros: Totally gorey +++, funny at times.
Cons: Not very scary, storyline is a bit patchy with no plot

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 ...