‘Hostel’ is one big disappointment
By Greta Lieske
IV Leader Staff
This may not be the first time I have said this in a
review, but it’s the first for the IV Leader. And I would just like to spread
the word to all those out there. Do not (I repeat DO NOT) waste your precious
hard earned money to go see (or rent when it comes to DVD) the horrible mess
that is “Hostel.”
Perhaps I am so angry with the director of “Hostel,” Eli
Roth, because of the mere fact that, not only did he make me want to try to
gauge my own eyes out for 80 minutes, but he tricked me. I was duly warned of
the film’s magnitude of suck before I went, but thought that maybe my friend was
overreacting. I thought to myself, “The previews on T.V. look so good. How could
this movie be bad?” I soon discovered I was wrong, and paid for it with much
needed brain cells.
And Quentin Tarantino? How could you? I trusted you for
years. You have never let me down. But you felt this movie was good enough for
your name to be associated with it? What has happened? Basically, I thought I
was going to sit down and see a great, scary, gory, horror movie. What I got
instead was 40 minutes of gratuitous nudity and porn and another 40 minutes of
tons of blood, vomit and chainsaws.
Roth needs to learn that you can’t cover up really bad
acting, bad character development, bad dialogue and terrible screenplay writing
with a bunch of breasts and a couple amputated limbs.
Adding a bunch of yucky images at the end of the movie does
not make it scary. It makes me want to turn from the screen a little, but it
does not make me scared in the least bit.
The first 40 minutes I even forgot that I was sitting there
watching a (pseudo) horror flick. There was no element of anticipation or of
this impending doom that was supposed to (eventually) arrive. It was just three
unlikable travelers backpacking through Europe looking for drugs and easy sex
wherever they could find it.
It got to the point where I couldn’t wait for someone to kill
these characters off. And if I don’t care about them living, and I’m actually
waiting for their ultimate demise, what’s the point really?
Honestly, I’m just trying to save everyone from the
dissatisfaction, annoyance and anger that this movie generates within true
horror movie fans. And let’s be straightforward, also from sticking a fork in
their ear to try to shield and block out all the bad movie pain. I just don’t
want to see anyone get hurt. I’m just a humanitarian.