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I just got home from this movie AND I FREAKING LOVED IT!!!

Can't say enough about it. just great !!!

This movie was scary as hell, and crazy as hell. It made me turn into a 9 year old girl which is why I go to see scary movies and this one came through where the others failed. I loved it, loved it loved it. I wanna go see it again right now. It had me on the edge of my seat trying not to cover my eyes the last 45 minutes and trying not to drool in my seat the first 45. GO SEE THIS NOW.
 
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RandomBuckeye said:
I just got home from this movie AND I FREAKING LOVED IT!!!

Can't say enough about it. just great !!!

This movie was scary as hell, and crazy as hell. It made me turn into a 9 year old girl which is why I go to see scary movies and this one came through where the others failed. I loved it, loved it loved it. I wanna go see it again right now. It had me on the edge of my seat trying not to cover my eyes the last 45 minutes and trying not to drool in my seat the first 45. GO SEE THIS NOW.
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Admit it...You just loved it for the porn in the first third of the movie.:biggrin:
 
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Bucklion said:
I saw a writeup of Audition that said it was one of the most haunting and brutal things the dude had ever seen...thought I might try and check it out, if I can get my hands on it.
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Definitely see it if you like this genre...it will make you squirm.

My take on Hostel: I thought it was certainly entertaining, but I can also see how some might not appreciate it. For someone like myself, who is a horror film buff, I thought it was great, especially because, much like Roth's first film, it wasn't some big budget film that was only visually scary. This movie really made you feel for the characters involved. Suspense is something that is lost in horror movies of the present day, as is the idea of presenting something that is so horrific especially because there exists a possibility that is could happen to you. Jay Hernandez does a great job of being a kind of pseudo-sexist typical frat ass, but then has you feeling horrified and empathetic for him by the end of the movie. Hostel certainly won't win any awards but I definitely enjoyed it and look forward to more from Lions Gate and Eli Roth.
 
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Saw it, liked it. Sufficiently intense. Would have liked to see another 15-20 minutes spent throughout explaining how/why the whole operation existed to begin with, but it was plenty entertaining.
 
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Seen it, and didn't much care for it. Of course this isn't my genre so I didn't expect to like it going in. (wife likes this type of movie) I'm more of a good plot good acting type of guy. Shawshank Redemption is probably my fav., but I can see this being a good movie if your into the gore and boobs. /shrug
 
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Film causes wrong kind of horror in Slovakia By Matt Reynolds

BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Better known to the outside world for their ice hockey players and stunning models, Slovaks are horror-struck that the smash-hit slasher film "Hostel" is giving them a bad name.

The low-budget movie made a surprise debut in the United States, topping box office sales in early January. In the film, American backpackers are kidnapped, tortured and killed during a trip to the central European country.

"It's so sad," said Alzbeta Melicharova, marketing head at Slovakia's state tourist board.

"The events in the film are so absurd. They have nothing to do with reality. We are actually one of central Europe's safest places. It's one of our selling points."

Scenes of teens locked in a dungeon, tortured with chainsaws and blowtorches and sold to sadists have shocked this tiny, mainly Catholic, nation that is trying to lure tourists away from the beaten paths that lead to Prague, Budapest and Vienna.

This formerly communist nation of 5.4 million, independent for just 13 years, is not used to being the setting for Hollywood films, much less nightmarish ones.

The film has yet to open in central Europe, but word of it has already spread to Slovakia, where radio and newspapers have blasted it, and Slovaks are puzzled and offended.

Taxi driver Julius Horvath saw a photo from the movie in a newspaper of a dog chewing a human bone.

"It's like something from a 1,000 years ago," he said. "Like Slovaks live in the jungle."

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American director Eli Roth said he chose Slovakia because it was close enough to backpacking meccas Amsterdam and Prague to be a plausible diversion for his heroes, but still unknown to most Western audiences.

The film tells the story of a hostel-cum-dungeon, where wealthy foreigners pay to make snuff fantasies come true.

"I would like to apologise to Slovaks for making them look like maniacs," Roth told Reuters in an email.

"But if you look closely, the worst crimes are committed by Americans, Germans, Japanese and Dutch."

Slovakia has rebounded from 40 years of communism to become a stable democracy with a thriving economy.

Tourist brochures tout Slovakia's mountains, stretching over two-thirds of the country, and forests, covering 40 percent of Slovak land, and a multitude of ski slopes that make it the "eastern Alps".

Roth's film instead shows broken-down communist-era cars, black-and-white television sets, gangs of children who kill for bubblegum -- an amalgam, he says, of the worst American stereotypes of the old Eastern Bloc.

Melicharova has challenged Roth to visit Slovakia and see, in her words, what it is really like and the director said he would take up the offer during a promotional trip ahead of the central European release of "Hostel" on February 24.

"I think I have to be a man and go there and face the music," he said.
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