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hbkisdead

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Watched ten minutes of this distasteful film last night and turned off,, the ideas if was giving some loonies of the world to carry out.. terrible film.
 
Someone thought it up, to put it in the film in the first place, so anyone could think the same. You can't really blame a film for what some weirdo does, as they were like that before the film was made tbh.
 
sue chip and I agree to and extent, but if you put images of torture to an already unsteady mind, it sets them off, well I think so anyway.. horrible movie.
 
10 mins. The torture scenes don't appear until well after 45 mins or so. Unless you are talking about Hostel 2.

I do agree though they are nasty films.
 
Why don't you watch the rest of the movie first, and then contribute to one of the many other main threaRAB about this movie.
 
Hostel 1 (and 2) are 2 of the most tame,hyped up 'horror nasties' I've ever seen.Satire that few people got,probably because Eli Roth isn't the greatest director out there.
Too far fetched to be taken seriously,but too boring to be artistically average.

I don't get your argument that it 'gives ideas to loonies about how to torture people'.People doing terrible things to other people has been going on much much longer than people have made films.

I bet you were one of those people who would have called for the immediate banning of movies such as the Texas Chainsaw Massacre,Exorcist,Evil Dead when they were first released.:rolleyes:
 
I completely disagree that they are tame, there is something far more degrading and sinister in the Hostel films .The Evil dead or Texas chainsaw now they really are quite comedic in comparison.
 
Now don't get me wrong,there is something more nasty in Hostel 1 than Evil Dead or TCM (which have an obvious black humour to them).Hostel II was completely over the top and obviously not to be taken too seriously.

There is something sinister about Hostel 1,but the movie has so many cliches.A great idea that would have worked better in the hanRAB of a more competent director.

There are a few gory scenes (which look a bit fake) but I've seen much much worse over the years.The only effective scene is when the survivor is talking to the American businessman.
 
Agree.

I think both films were based on an interesting concept, and although neither reached the potential the idea had, the second was a much more interesting story and asked many more intriguing questions.

I've heard that a third film has been proposed without Eli Roth; which could be a good or a bad thing.
 
I preferred the second film, but I thought the first half of the first film was better artistically. The long, slow descent into unease, the anti-American sentiment, the train encounter, all pretty well done. It's when the torture starts that it goes wrong.
 
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