Hostel
March 29, 2006I’m never going to Eastern Europe. Ever. Sure, Hostel is pure fiction but there are a lot more beautiful, not to mention safer, locations in the world where one can spend a vacation. That and the fact that the story could very well be reality in such an impoverished war-torn country.
Hostel is humanity at its most cruel, pure and simple. And it terrifies in such a demeaning way that it sickens the audience not only for the duration of the movie, but even days after. I cannot count how many times I shifted my weight uncomfortably in my seat while watching the atrocities on the big screen. Remember how Nic Cage uncomfortably watched the snuff film in 8MM? That was nothing.
I’ve seen far more worse torture scenes in Japanese cult movies, but those movies were campy at best. In Hostel, the mood is all too real. And it terrifies me whenever I think that the entire concept of the movie is indeed possible. Watch it in the big screen.
looks interesting.
