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Hostel...or Hostile?
2006-01-18
Article Written by: Sami Jo
For anyone with a genuine passion for movies, Quentin Tarantino’s name on a film suggests that the film is worth seeing. Tarantino was the co-executive producer of this creepy modern horror story written and directed by Eli Roth. While the film has been categorized as horror and rumored to be gory, it’s more disturbing than anything. The root of this horror films’ evil comes in the form of human torture. You’ll see more than you want to with fingers, toes, and eyes being removed, the slicing of Achilles tendons, not to mention ultra-violent use of guns and knives.
What would a horror film be without sex? Most of the first half of the film looks like a soft-core porn, but this is a story where the bare-breasted girl serves a more purposeful role than the usual sex object who usually dies within the first twenty minutes of the film. In this film, the eye candy profits off being used as bait to lure men into a place far worse than hell. Two American college boys, Paxton (Jay Hernandez, Crazy/Beautiful) and Josh (Derek Richardson, Dumb and Dumber: When Harry Met Lloyd) backpack across Europe, meeting an Icelandic friend named Oli along the way. While the guys are probing Amsterdam discos for loose European women, they are directed to a hostel in Slovakia, where the women are allegedly as horny as they are sexy.
Final Thought: The true ingenious of the film comes in the final major scene, which takes place in a bathroom. Where do people generally go immediately after exiting a movie theater? To the bathroom.
