And I thought Saw 2 was bad...HA!

This Friday I went to see the movie Hostel…unwillingly. The movie was produced by Quentin Tarantino and written and directed by Eli Roth. Roth thought of the idea for this movie after being shown a website where people could pay money to pretty much slaughter some one. Pretty sick, right? I thought so too. When Eli Roth proposed this idea to Tarantino he said it was “the sickest idea he’d ever heard.” Over 150 gallons of fake blood were used in this movie. That’s a lot.

The plot follows these two young guys who meet up with another guy from Iceland and go to Amsterdam to go wild have a little fun before they graduate from college. For the first half of the movie, it was pretty much like taking the guys from American Pie and sticking them in creepy Europe. In Amsterdam they are told to go to a Slovakian city because “the girls there…they’ll do anything.” They meet these two suspicious girls who try and show them a good time. After characters start disappearing you soon find out what exactly this particular hostel (which is an inexpensive lodging place for mainly young travelers) is involved in, and all the people running it.

Well, I didn’t want to see this movie in the first place so I didn’t expect to like it. In the first half of the movie the nudity was outrageous. I have never seen that much nudity in a movie…and it was all so unnecessary. I don’t mind a little nudity in a movie, but in this movie it seemed like every other scene there was a naked woman in there somehow. Until it got to the gory half of the movie. This movie definitely lived up to its gory reputation. I read in a review that “this movie makes any other movie from it’s genre look like a penguin documentary.” And they weren’t lying! I couldn’t even believe some of the things they were actually allowed to show. It was absolutely disgusting. I don’t see why people would want to spend their time making or watching a movie where humans are completely butchered right in front of your eyes. Whatever. Anyways, the movie had a decent ending. I didn’t lose sleep over it, but I definitely almost lost my dinner. My eyes were covered for a pretty nice portion of the movie, but I definitely caught my share of disgusting scenes.

I guess for a movie that was written, directed and produced in 12 months it was well done. Many of the shots were very well composed. Something interesting- Eli Roth put almost every single crew member somewhere in the movie. I thought that was pretty sweet. All in all, I guess the movie was well done. I’d never see it again…never!

liz