I thought it was pretty damn good. To be honest, I was a little bit disappointed with the gore factor. I think they probably cut a few scenes out. Just as an example, as you see in the trailer, there's a scene where a bitch gets her toe cut off. In the movie, it shows the cutting device being placed around her toe, slowly squeezed, then it flashes away, then it shows the toe falling off. It was just small shit like that which struck me the wrong way. Had it been done "right" without pulling any punches, we would have seen the toe slowly severed in great detail. Not that I wanted to see that or anything...I mean, I'm not a really super sick fuck. Honest.
All of that said, it definitely forged its way into the frontier of mainstream movie explicit violence...and, if for no other reason that that, it definitely has my seal of approval. All of that aside, I found the movie to be very entertaining in and of itself. Funny in the beginning to exciting in the end. It ran the gamut quite well.
Tits to you, Hostel.
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