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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Oct 4, 2006
Pros: Fantastic Settings, Good Acting, Premise
Cons: Some Classify This as "Just Another Tortue Gore Based Horror Film" When It's Much More
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 20, 2013
Pros: Revenge plot, Camera work, effects
Cons: Acting, overall plot, unnecessary scenes.
Summary: This movie was a great disappointment, and I am a horror fan. Lets go into the details....WARNING, Minor spoilers might be contained within!Plot:Well, it is a slasher really, something like SAW (or at least advertised like saw) ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 5, 2013
Pros: Really, really bloody
Cons: You can't watch it with people who don't like really, really, bloody movies.
Summary: "Hostel" is a horror movie directed by Eli Roth. It is about a few college guys who go on a trip to Europe. They are each kidnapped and brutally tortured by rich businessmen who have paid a lot of money to torture and kill them. Ultimatly, one of them ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 15, 2008
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Summary: 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. ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 4, 2008
Pros: Totally gorey +++, funny at times.
Cons: Not very scary, storyline is a bit patchy with no plot
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 22, 2008
Pros: This is real chop-shop horror.
Cons: Material may be disturbing.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 21, 2007
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?
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 4, 2007
Pros: Roth lives up to the standards of his mentor Tarantino...
Cons: May be too violent for most audiences...
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 17, 2006
Pros: Demented as hell
Cons: too disturbing for some viewers
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 26, 2006
Pros: There is a definite artistic structure. Effectively blends "despicable" with "entertaining".
Cons: It can easily disturb, disgust, and be deemed plain debauchery.
Summary: 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; ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 13, 2006
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
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 23, 2006
Pros: Original plot, realistic villains and kills
Cons: Slow in getting to the main story and action.
Summary: Hostel is billed as being one of the most frightening films in a decade or so. Unfortunately, while it has the stereotypically makings of a 70’s horror flick, it lacks the plot of some of the better more modern horror flicks. Eli Roth is a very ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 19, 2006
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
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 19, 2006
Pros: Cruel, twisted idea
Cons: Eli Roth still hasn't made a "good" horror movie
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 20, 2006
Pros: Good gore effects.
Cons: Leaves you feeling more muck covered than the theatre floor.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 16, 2006
Pros: Gory and bloody as expected, but also a good story
Cons: Misleading previews
Summary: According to every other review it wasn't that great of a movie, but I would have to disagree with that. Now it's not on the level with The Grudge," an Sarah Michelle Gellar flick that was the scariest movie of all time, but I recommend taking a ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 13, 2006
Pros: The acting was very good.
Cons: Not as gory as promised. Not scary.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 10, 2006
Pros: acting not too bad, decent plot/storyline
Cons: not quite enough gore, ending highly improbable
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 9, 2006
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
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 6, 2006
Pros: Comfortable theater seats. Charming J.Hernandez, the blond guy was convincing, party dude achieved effect.
Cons: Improper plot development, suspense underworked. Children thieves creepy, but not significant. Bad escape sequences.
Summary: Is it great promo that makes people flock into theaters? Maybe the Quentin Tarantino Presents preceding the movie title did the trick. Only a small TV cameo of Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction is the only reminescent of QT. Hostel was meant to be a ... read more
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