Anyone seen Hostel?

[Dude]

Wow. F'ed up movie, for sure.

I have a pretty strong stomach--and I love sick stuff, but I admit I was queasy when I walked out of the AMC today. What's worse is I can't get it out of my mind.

 

[The Happy Mug]

That's one of those movies that I don't think I will ever see. I'm not big into that kind of movie, and I'll probably get hit for this, but I don't like Quintin Tarentino movies. "Kill bill" is, in my opinion, one of the dumbest movies I have ever wasted part of my life watching.

 

[Toilet Rocker]

I am a huge horror buff and plan to see it, but I had to see Kong this week before that was removed from theatres...haven't seen a decent horror flick in a theatre in ages...Saw I was the lone exception.

 

[Dude]

Horror--depending on what you like, not much in Hostel is scary, per se, just f'ed up. Gory, disturbing, and I didn't like it very much.

I don't know how much Tarantino was really involved in this project--but it wasn't his style even. It was bad.

 

[Toilet Rocker]

I've become so immune to what I see in genre films that a movie hasn't scared me in two decades. Horror itself is such a loose term. Was it just too inhumane, cruel? Is that what you didn't like (without spoiling anything)? I've seen a few that just felt wrong, "I spit on your grave," "august underground mordum," and "nekromantik" come to mind. I suspect this will fit in with those.

 

[Lounge Lizard]

What's worse is I can't get it out of my mind.

Haven't seen the movie, but I know what you mean. I only watched the censored version of the Nick Berg beheading, and I was sick for a week.

As time passes, things will get better....

 

[Dude]

gaelone--I'm not squeamish at all- I can handle pretty much anything you give me. I've eaten ants, worms, etc. in a psuedo survival training thing for my job, so I've got a strong stomach.

While I never got the urge to vomit or anything during the movie--it was extremely "inhumane" as you put it. Half the movie is torture scenes and it is very graphic.

It just isn't something that I'd want to see again.