Hostel movie review
Hostel movie credits:
Directed by: Eli Roth
Written by: Eli Roth
Cast:
Jay Hernandez (Paxton)
Derek Richardson (Josh)
Barbara Nedeljakova (Natalya)
Release date: 2005
Spoiler alert: some crucial elements of the movie are commented in the following review. Be warned!
My bloody rating:
Hostel movie review:
Travelling is a very stimulating and interesting experience. You get to meet new people, visit new places and witness other cultures in action!
And what if you had a tip that beautiful European girls were enjoying the company of nice men like you (if you are a man, of course!).
How risky could it be? After all, you can visit and have a little fun at the same time!
That's basically the storyline of hostel, an Eli Roth movie (presented by Quentin Tarantino). Like you might expect it, these girls are not seducing American boys for pleasure. They do it for money. Big money!
After visiting Amsterdam, these boys are travelling to Slovakia for a night of wild adventure... only to end up in a mad house where they are sliced in pieces (literally!) by rich men looking for extreme fun!
Yes, this movie is brutal and hard to look at sometimes. This is not your typical slasher movie!
Like the rich men in Hostel, you can take a knife and cut the movie in two distinct half. The first one is light, funny and loaded with beautiful women.
You get a chance to meet the boys and share their exotic adventure in pleasureland.
The second one is dark, dirty and brutal. The boys are now trapped in an abandoned facility turned into a slaughter house.
I really enjoy the fact that the movie was filmed on location. Visually, the movie is clean and the girls are pretty!
And when things get dirty, you can almost smell the tension or touched the blood visible all over the walls.
Even if I'm use to see blood and gory scenes, the ones in Hostel are honestly hard to look at! I can easily feel the pain the boys are enduring in this one!
However, Hostel is not a perfect movie. The general concept of the movie was refreshing at the time, but I didn't have the feeling that Roth had pushed all his ideas to the limit.
And even if the introduction was necessary (with all the sexuality and the beautiful girls) I just felt that it was too long before the viewer was immerse into the real subject of the film.
Also, even if the violence is justified to a certain extent, some gory scenes in the second half of the movie don't seem necessary.
But overall, these issues are not so important since the movie does achieve its goal: Make you feel disgusted by this weird concept of rich men paying to torture teenagers.
So if you don't like seeing a single drop of blood onscreen, forget this one. Otherwise, it's a nice and entertaining horror movie that might not be in your top 20, but you'll still have some (sick?) fun looking at it!
Hostel movie review written by: Martin Berube
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