![]() ![]() I miss the movies from the 1970s that Americans made, like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and I miss the movies the Italians made like Cannibal Holocaust and Sallow. I think American horror movies have gone soft in the last ten or fifteen years. If you don't like those types of movies you should stay far, far away from this one. "There's a lot of nudity and a lot violence in this film. ![]() Eli Roth told reporters what attracted him to the horror genre. But instead of beautiful and lust-crazed women, the three are abducted in their Hostel, sold to sadists and slowly tortured to death in a bloodsoaked orgy of sharp knives and power tools. Three backpackers - two American teenagers and one from Iceland - are traveling around Europe when they meet a man in Amsterdam, who tells them of a mysterious country deep in Eastern Europe, where the men are few and far between and the women plentiful and desperate to meet Westerners. Which is exactly what happens in "Hostel". I'm sure you have questions, and about why I made Slovakia look like all of a sudden it's from the 1950s, and what it might do to the tourist industry in Slovakia, and I look forward to answering all your questions and hopefully I will not get tortured to death." In America, Hostel is a very terrifying horror film for many people, but I truly believe it could become one of the great comedy classics here in Eastern Europe. ![]() It's very exciting for me to be here, especially since I know that there are some people from Slovakia who probably want to kill me for making this movie. Even before the film had opened some Slovaks were complaining to the authorities about the potential damage to the country's international image, and so when American director Eli Roth appeared at a packed press conference in Prague it was something of an event. This week it opens in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, and it's certainly been causing a stir. The movie knocked both the Chronicles of Narnia and King Kong off the top spot during its first weekend in the United States. One of the best films of 2005.Eli Roth, photo: CTK Set in Slovakia and filmed in the Czech Republic and Germany, "Hostel" tells the story of three backpackers who are abducted and sadistically murdered during a trip to Slovakia. Oh and there is copious amounts of extremely well done gratuitous nudity and sadistic gore. The leads are unlikable in a fun rather than irritating way (not easy to do) and the film has both a wonderful energy and plentiful surprises. (I generally have hated the whole torture motif in modern film for example Rest Stop.) Roth unlike his contemporaries shows the gore without those annoying zooming camera tricks. The movie actually makes torture scenes enjoyable again. What they find is, well I won't spoil it for you but they should have stuck with the marijuana brownies and overpriced Dutch hookers. They hear about a nirvana for sex and drugs in Slovakia and they pursue it as if they were traversing the Himalayas to find Shangri-La. The film starts with two American college students and an Icelandic hanger on enjoying some debauchery in Amsterdam. Thus he produces a film that could have been lensed in the freewheeling year of 1975 rather than PG-13 stuffy year of 2005. Director Eli Roth (Cabin Fever) has scored a bull's eye simply by going back to what makes exploitation films great. Director Eli Roth (Cabin Fever) has scored a bull's eye simply by going back to what makes Hostel: 10 out of 10: Half Eurotrip style sex comedy (with a seventies level of nudity) and half the doctor scene from Bloodsucking Freaks, yeah I might as well stop my review right there it's a 10. ![]() Hostel: 10 out of 10: Half Eurotrip style sex comedy (with a seventies level of nudity) and half the doctor scene from Bloodsucking Freaks, yeah I might as well stop my review right there it's a 10. ![]()
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