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SuperFly
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 Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:47 am Post subject: Eli Roth's Hostel - Looks gory and scary |
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Anyone going to see this in January? Looks like it's going to be pretty good.
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"Quentin Tarantino presents Eli Roth��s HOSTEL, the follow-up to the writer-director��s hit debut, 2002��s CABIN FEVER. More grisly than Roth��s feature bow, HOSTEL is a mixture of many of the most terrifying things about human nature and the world at large, culled from many impossible-but-true stories of human trafficking, international organized crime, and sex tourism. Relentlessly graphic and deeply disturbing, the film is sure to shock even the most hard core genre fans.
HOSTEL tells the story of two adventurous American college buddies Paxton and Josh who backpack through Europe eager to make quintessentially hazy travel memories with new friend Oli, an Icelander they��ve met along the way.
Paxton and Josh are eventually lured by a fellow traveler to what��s described as a nirvana for American backpackers – a particular hostel in an out-of-the-way Slovakian town stocked with Eastern European women as desperate as they are gorgeous. The two friends arrive and soon easily pair off with exotic beauties Natalya and Svetlana. In fact, too easily��
Initially distracted by the good time they��re having, the two Americans quickly find themselves trapped in an increasingly sinister situation that they will discover is as wide and as deep as the darkest, sickest recess of human nature itself – if they survive. |
Trailers can be seen here
The Locker room
http://www.hostelfilm.com/
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Imbroglio
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:48 am Post subject: |
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Well, I'm going to see it next week. Everyone is talking about this film....
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| Knowles claimed he had stumbled across something so frightening he was hesitant to confess its discovery to Eli, which only made the director more curious. Knowles eventually forwarded Roth the link to a website; and what Roth discovered disturbed him more deeply than he could have imagined: somewhere in Thailand, a business was profiting on the visceral thrill of murder. For a fee of $10,000, anyone so willing could be escorted to a room, handed a loaded gun and offered another human being to kill. |
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| If classic 1970s American horror was the inspiration for CABIN FEVER, then Roth credits Asian and South Korean horror filmmaking as the inspiration for HOSTEL. Yet Roth was relatively ignorant of young Asian masters like Hideo Nakata, Park Chan-Wook, and Takashi Miike until he attended world film festivals during the promotion of CABIN FEVER. ��I was exposed to a whole new world of Asian cinema I never knew existed. I was stunned,�� says the director. ��Their horror films are so much more creative, disturbing, and effective than anything I have seen coming out of America. I started watching as many Asian and South Korean films I could get my hands on.�� |
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The Cube
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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SuperFly
Joined: 09 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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It sucked. Sorry but that's the truth. Put it this way....if you download and watch all seven trailers out there on the web...you've seen the movie.
The best part was the commie gang of kids. |
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Mr.Glass
Joined: 08 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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I thought it was pretty funny, you have to have an odd sense of humor (if you enjoyed Cabin Fever you'll enjoy this)
Obviously the torture isn't all that funny, but sometimes it is just so over the top you can't help but laugh. Just remember that the laughs are intentional. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Wow it was number #1 at the box office, displacing the Passion of the Jesus Lion (Naria) and some recycled Lord of the Rings rendering software aping as a giant movie. |
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chest rockwell
Joined: 16 May 2005
Location: Sanbon
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| WAH!!!!! I loved cabin fever so Im definitely gonna be checking this |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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| OK, maybe somebody can explain to me.. excuse me if I sound like a negative nabob but.. what is the appeal of a movie, the only point of which seems to be show people being tortured? Why watch a girl get tied down and a blowtorch to the face? |
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SuperFly
Joined: 09 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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To answer your question, the appeal was supposed to be the evil and wicked way in which these people were bagged for torture fodder for the rich men that paid 50 grand for the pleasure of having a victim to kill. The people involved in the scam to get them to their destination were just not that evil...they were in it for the money...loads of cash for bringing the backpackers.
The critics said that they didn't develop the characters enough, I agree with that...I think it could have been a lot scarier if they had done that. |
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