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Anywho, it seems that critics are beginning to agree that Hostel is one solid gore-fest.
Hostel Reviews
Below are a couple of the first early reviews for Hostel and both are pretty damn positive.
Entertainment Weekly
Sadism was once an element in horror films. Now it's more or less the only element, with the fear of death replaced by the fear of torture — a fate worse than death. The new megaplex sado-thrillers, like Hostel, strive for the sensation of reality-based dread: the feeling that it's you, the poor viewer, who's being strapped into that chair or hung up on that meat hook, as a sweat-soaked creep in a leather apron approaches your face with a power drill. The decor? Late medieval dungeon, with a soupçon of smeared bathroom tile. Are we having fun yet?
The torture scenes in Hostel (snipped toes, sliced ankles, pulled eyeballs) are not, in essence, much different from the surgical terrors in the Saw films, only Roth, by presenting his characters as victims of the same world of flesh-for-fantasy they were grooving on in the first place, digs deep into the nightmare of a society ruled by the profit of illicit desire.
Variety
With a style as high as its body count -- plus the imprimatur of gore connoisseur and presenting entity Quentin TarantinoQuentin Tarantino -- "Hostel" may become something of a classic among Fangoria magazine's readership, acolytes of George Romero and audiences who thought "Saw II" was for babies. Translation to the small screen will be all but impossible given the rain of corpuscles, but theatrical and DVD should spur a moderate downpour. And the aptly termed "director's cut" is all but inevitable.
Roth apparently based his film on a story about a Thai Internet business through which, for $10,000, one could kill another human being (the victims being so impoverished they were willing to die for their heirs). Roth has moved the tale to an Eastern Europe portrayed the way Transylvania was in a 1930s vampire film, with lascivious beauties intent on seducing and drugging their unwitting American dates so they can be fed into the machinery of recreational death..
Two gore scenes that always stand out in my mind when it comes to horror films is the shot of the girl in the closet in The Ring and the image of the girl with her lips eaten away by the flesh-eating virus in Eli Roth's Cabin Fever. Those two images are so damn dirty!
Hostel will be released to theatres on January 13th, 2006.
For the full synopsis, trailers, movie stills, movie posters and additional info, go to the Hostel Movie Page.
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