Dawg
18-Apr-2006, 10:09 PM
Okay, it has probably been gone over numerous times since it came out in the theaters, but it came out on dvd today in the states. I originally planned on going to the theater to see it. Then I planned to buy the dvd, but instead used one of my blockbuster online coupons instead.
I'm glad I didn't waste money buying it, but I'm pretty sad that I used a perfectly good coupon to rent it.
Unrated? Scarier? More twisted than the theater would show? What exactly did they show in the theater? Two seconds of an @$$ crack instead of four? WTF?!!
Okay, I'm glad they are starting to show more boobs in movies nowadays, especially horror flicks, but this is no more than old school. Dude at work made it seem like there was an all around f**k fest going on.
Two, okay everyone I gave the guy credit for making Cabin Fever and all even though everyone else seemed to hate it, but this film is nothing special. They almost make it sound like it is the $hit that needs to be seen to be believed. Here is a basic breakdown of gore: (I may miss some, but it isn't much!)
01) Severed head with a blurry headless body in background for like two seconds. WOW! I just saw that on 2001 Maniacs (another Eli Roth had something to do with movie, but not direct), in fact up to like five heads!
02) Toe about to be removed. (I guess the tension for that was decent.)
03) Drill into the skin, several places. (Ouch! The bits on the drill bit was pretty gross.)
04) Tendons cut on back of ankles, making one immobile. (Wouldn't that be Archilles Heel?)
05) Open chest autopsy.
06) Numerous people being tortured, hit with things, stabbed, etc. Moves too quick.
07) Two-three prong hook into chest. Stings!
09) Chainsaw cuts handcuffs and two fingers off on hero's hand. Now that was okay.
10) Chainsaw into leg, severs leg. Now we're getting somewhere.
11) Numerous gunshots to bad guys into head(s), etc.
12) Japanese woman with half of her face ruined and eyeball hanging out. This is one that would give you the heebie jeebies, the hero has to cut her optic nerve to remove eyeball because it is ruined anyway. Once he does, yellow puss comes out. GROSS!!
13) Two bad guys get their skulls caved in by rocks by kids! Yeah!
14) Japanese woman jumps in front of train and run over.
15) One bad guy has two fingers severed by hero and throat slit.
And that is about it. Hmmm... sounds like another basic slasher film to me. I was expecting total mayham and disgusting $hit going down. Sick I know, but I wish they wouldn't market a movie as if it were the sickest thing around when this other worse $hit has been filmed twenty, thirty years ago already and then that film (Hostel), turns out to be a stale turd. Unrated for a f**king reason!
I guess it is still up to us indie filmmakers to do it and maybe Hollywood will get off of their collective @$$e$ and actually make a scary, gory-@$$ movie for once.
HOSTEL 1 1/2 *'s
:dead: Dawg :skull:
I'm glad I didn't waste money buying it, but I'm pretty sad that I used a perfectly good coupon to rent it.
Unrated? Scarier? More twisted than the theater would show? What exactly did they show in the theater? Two seconds of an @$$ crack instead of four? WTF?!!
Okay, I'm glad they are starting to show more boobs in movies nowadays, especially horror flicks, but this is no more than old school. Dude at work made it seem like there was an all around f**k fest going on.
Two, okay everyone I gave the guy credit for making Cabin Fever and all even though everyone else seemed to hate it, but this film is nothing special. They almost make it sound like it is the $hit that needs to be seen to be believed. Here is a basic breakdown of gore: (I may miss some, but it isn't much!)
01) Severed head with a blurry headless body in background for like two seconds. WOW! I just saw that on 2001 Maniacs (another Eli Roth had something to do with movie, but not direct), in fact up to like five heads!
02) Toe about to be removed. (I guess the tension for that was decent.)
03) Drill into the skin, several places. (Ouch! The bits on the drill bit was pretty gross.)
04) Tendons cut on back of ankles, making one immobile. (Wouldn't that be Archilles Heel?)
05) Open chest autopsy.
06) Numerous people being tortured, hit with things, stabbed, etc. Moves too quick.
07) Two-three prong hook into chest. Stings!
09) Chainsaw cuts handcuffs and two fingers off on hero's hand. Now that was okay.
10) Chainsaw into leg, severs leg. Now we're getting somewhere.
11) Numerous gunshots to bad guys into head(s), etc.
12) Japanese woman with half of her face ruined and eyeball hanging out. This is one that would give you the heebie jeebies, the hero has to cut her optic nerve to remove eyeball because it is ruined anyway. Once he does, yellow puss comes out. GROSS!!
13) Two bad guys get their skulls caved in by rocks by kids! Yeah!
14) Japanese woman jumps in front of train and run over.
15) One bad guy has two fingers severed by hero and throat slit.
And that is about it. Hmmm... sounds like another basic slasher film to me. I was expecting total mayham and disgusting $hit going down. Sick I know, but I wish they wouldn't market a movie as if it were the sickest thing around when this other worse $hit has been filmed twenty, thirty years ago already and then that film (Hostel), turns out to be a stale turd. Unrated for a f**king reason!
I guess it is still up to us indie filmmakers to do it and maybe Hollywood will get off of their collective @$$e$ and actually make a scary, gory-@$$ movie for once.
HOSTEL 1 1/2 *'s
:dead: Dawg :skull: