My friend has seen this, says it's very gory and sadistic

 

i don't know what the story line is but i want to see this film.

Looks like a shocker :o !

 

I can't wait to see it though. The trailer makes me cringe to buggery and I saw a clip last night on Film 2006 which involved scissors...say no more.

I like the look of it, but I definitely question the selling of the film on the back of Quentin Tarantino's name, I find this sort of thing dishonest; it aint as if Eli Roth isn't an excellent film-maker in his own right, I was rather impressed by his low-budget shocker "Cabin Fever". The use of Tarantino's name gives the impression that he's somehow involved in the creative process when this is simply not true - his involvement is merely as one of the executive producers...

 

Of course it aint the first time this has happened, of the things that annoyed me about "Jeepers Creepers" was the fact that it led you to think that it was a Francis Ford Coppolla film, when it was nothing of the sort; in fact, it wasnt even really that good if we're being totally honest....

Makes me cringe to be honest. When seeing FD3 I saw the trailer for this and it looks really really disturbing so even if I wnated to go and see it I couldn't as I ain't 18.

Apparently this movie is aweful, so ive heard anyway :(

anybody seen it? is it worth seeing?

Just got back from seeing it....

 

If you missed the first 20 minutes of it you wouldn't really be missing out on a lot, it's just mainly the main characters dossing around Amsterdam, acting like the dumb Americans they are, copping off with Hookers, smoking pot blah, blah, :zzz:

 

Things really kick off when they get to Slovakia and all hell breaks loose. The twists in the plot are really rather obvious, but it makes up for the predictability by virtue of sheer nastiness and it doesn't half rack up the tension in the second half of the film.....

 

So, yeah, it's pretty okay...

 

Is this the one Quentin Tarrintino is doing?. I looked at the cinema stuff today and Hostel is directed by the guy who did Cabin Fever, and I was sure Tarintino was doing something similar to this, and knowing me I'll probably have got all this mixed up, and the paper said that its a pretty rubbish film but the gore makes up for it, and reaping the sypnopsis of it the main charachters are two americans and two busty females.

Is this the one Quentin Tarrintino is doing?. I looked at the cinema stuff today and Hostel is directed by the guy who did Cabin Fever, and I was sure Tarintino was doing something similar to this, and knowing me I'll probably have got all this mixed up, and the paper said that its a pretty rubbish film but the gore makes up for it, and reaping the sypnopsis of it the main charachters are two americans and two busty females.

 

Quentin Tarantino is the Executive Producer of this film, apart from that he does sod all in terms of the actual creative process. It somewhat sticks in my craw that the first thing you see is the legend "Quentin Tarantino Presents".... <_<

 

That's fairly accurate on the character front, but it missed out the Iceladic mate of theirs Oli (who's really the most fun character in the film in many ways...), but the two rather, ahem, surgically enhanced Russian birds seem to be one of the film's main rather dubious selling point.... The treatment of sex and sexuality in the film is incredibly juvenile....

Thanks for clearing that out. The paper did mention Oly, as thye pick her up and then they find her dead and then it also mentions this random japanese girl that thye also find, so I guess the rest of the film is the other four been totrured and I'm taking a guess that the blond haired guy survives the "Hostel".

The paper did mention Oly, as thye pick her up and then they find her dead

 

Her?? Oli is a guy.....Was this reviewer actually watching the same film I did....? :unsure:

Oli was a guy................. I was skim reading so I probably misread what the reviewer had put.

is it really AMERICAS SCARIES MOVIE THIS DECADE?

is it really AMERICAS SCARIES MOVIE THIS DECADE?

 

Nah... I thought "Saw" was better to be honest.....

 

i lvoed saw. i might get them on DVD today.

Ok I have this on DVD and haven't watched it yet, can anyone that has seen it let me know what it's like? It looks really similar to Saw which both of them were AMAZING, so I hope this is similar, but not too similar of course, looks along the same lines anyway, the trailer looks scary as $h!t which pleases me, so anyone like to explain a bit to me, by the way anyone who gives spoilers will be shot, repeatedly :)

Just watched this and thought it was absolutely rubbish.

 

It sorta worked on the same principal as Wolf Creek - where in the first half nothing much happened. However, in Wolf Creek we got to love the characters so when they started to get murdered it was so much worse cuz they felt like our friends. In Hostel I absolutely hated all the characters. Oli was horrendously annoying, the guy with the big nose was a wet lettuce and the other guy was so All-American it was totally unbelievable that he was a backpacker.

 

Secondly I thought the film was really xenophobic/raciste. It portrayed all these other nationalities as complete stereotypes. And the way that every foreign person was killed, but America ruled supreme in the end.

 

I also hated, how it was so obviously trying to push the boundries, but actually complied with every convention in the book. The way the main character going back to save the girl was just one example. The film was just based on a set of American values, the way one of the "baddies" was on the train at the end and the main character got his revenge and the way that the two girls and Alexi were just so coincidently in the road where the main character was driving so that he could kill them. Just total bollocks.

 

Another thing, the music was $h!t as well. It just didn't match the film at all. And even though contra puntal sound can be effective sometimes - it really was not in this case.

 

Lastly, the gore wasn't even that bad. They say the camera is unblinking. But IMO, it was blinking to buggery. After a really short shot of the drill going in, it cut away. The camera cut away when the girls toe was cut off. The camera cut away when the gur was having his ankle slashed. The camera was at an obscure view when the girls eye had fallen out. Really not that shocking at all. The only gorey bits were - the guys legs being chopped off, the mans fingers being chopped off, when the guy stands up on his ankle and when the guy cuts that girls eye off.

 

However, the were some really tense moments. Like when the guy was having the scissors flashed around his face and the chainsaw. And the few gory bits did make you cringe.

 

Right, rant over - basically, if you couldn't be arsed reading that - I THOUGHT IT WAS $h!t!

Takishi Miikie's films are better (Japanese bloke who comes out of the place)

Just watched this and thought it was absolutely rubbish.

 

It sorta worked on the same principal as Wolf Creek - where in the first half nothing much happened. However, in Wolf Creek we got to love the characters so when they started to get murdered it was so much worse cuz they felt like our friends. In Hostel I absolutely hated all the characters. Oli was horrendously annoying, the guy with the big nose was a wet lettuce and the other guy was so All-American it was totally unbelievable that he was a backpacker.

 

Secondly I thought the film was really xenophobic/raciste. It portrayed all these other nationalities as complete stereotypes. And the way that every foreign person was killed, but America ruled supreme in the end.

 

I also hated, how it was so obviously trying to push the boundries, but actually complied with every convention in the book. The way the main character going back to save the girl was just one example. The film was just based on a set of American values, the way one of the "baddies" was on the train at the end and the main character got his revenge and the way that the two girls and Alexi were just so coincidently in the road where the main character was driving so that he could kill them. Just total bollocks.

 

Another thing, the music was $h!t as well. It just didn't match the film at all. And even though contra puntal sound can be effective sometimes - it really was not in this case.

 

Lastly, the gore wasn't even that bad. They say the camera is unblinking. But IMO, it was blinking to buggery. After a really short shot of the drill going in, it cut away. The camera cut away when the girls toe was cut off. The camera cut away when the gur was having his ankle slashed. The camera was at an obscure view when the girls eye had fallen out. Really not that shocking at all. The only gorey bits were - the guys legs being chopped off, the mans fingers being chopped off, when the guy stands up on his ankle and when the guy cuts that girls eye off.

 

However, the were some really tense moments. Like when the guy was having the scissors flashed around his face and the chainsaw. And the few gory bits did make you cringe.

 

Right, rant over - basically, if you couldn't be arsed reading that - I THOUGHT IT WAS $h!t!

 

Those are all pretty fair criticisms to be honest, I can definitely see the Xenophobia part and it certainly wasnt the best horror film I'd seen all decade :lol: :lol: , not even the best horror film I'd seen that month ('Hills Have Eyes' remake was loads better IMHO....).

 

I think it was an attempt to go down the road of nastiness that Miike Takashi does in his hyper-violent and totally fukked up "Yakuza" films, but it was a bit half-hearted in the long run. Nobody does nastiness like Mr Takashi.....

 

Takishi Miikie's films are better (Japanese bloke who comes out of the place)

 

Oh, he's great, I fukkin' LOVE his films.....