![]() Hostel may be one of the shallowest movies I have ever seen. Close, but instead he rolled another joint, downed another shot, and told the nearest actress to get her tits out. I think Hostel would be forgivable if it was deliberately one of those schlock movies that turned up on the video nasty list (Roth’s obsession with he movies of this list are responsible for his pointless Cannibal Holocaust rip-off, The Green Inferno, after all), but it feels like Roth was close to saying something about the American culture of the time, and its ignorance to the rest of the world, with Hostel. Hostel makes Cabin Fever look like a downright relief in comparison. His debut, Cabin Fever, was bogged down by bad acting, writing, and the sense that Roth wanted to jam in as many references to his favorite movies as possible. Literally everything.Įli Roth is a strange character all on his own. It’s not the gore that I hated in Hostel – I actually think the effects are brilliant, and I would expect nothing less from SFX master Greg Nictotero. There are plenty of things it has in common with the gory movies I actually like – slashers, and their Italian cousins, Giallo. Lets get one thing straight first of all: I am not against torture porn as a sub-genre. Which brings me to now, fifteen years later, and look, to be honest – I’m still too cool for it. I was completely terrified of horror movies back then, so I begged off the one time where it looked like my friends were going to watch it, probably by pretending to be too cool for it. Except, in 2005, it was less of a case of exchanging videos than finding one of your friend’s dads who didn’t give much of a fuck what you watched and rented it from Blockbuster (RIP). I was in high school in 2005, and even in Scotland this movie made waves – getting hold of it was like the previous generation’s teens tracking down the banned movies on the video nasties list, Hostel felt forbidden. ![]() ![]() Like Saw the previous year, Hostel was marketed as a new kind of extreme movie breaking through (with t he help of Quentin Tarantino) to the mainstream. Released in 2005, Hostel was the horror movie you couldn’t get away from. So, where does that leave Eli Roth’s Hostel? Others, like Aquaslash promise nothing more than the title, and deliver. Some, like for example Jason X, can be immensely entertaining by putting a ridiculous spin (slasher villain goes to space) on an already tired formula. The reason I love horror so much is that no other genre can be just as entertaining with its classics as it can be with its duds.Ī bad horror movie is not the same kind of failure as a bad action, comedy, or thriller, in some cases it’s not a failure at all.
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