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Welcome to your worst nightmare - Hostel 1

Advantages: Simple plot
Disadvantages: Simple characters

...plans and head to the hostel recommended by Alex in Slovakia. On the train the next day the trio meet a German business man who confirms Alex’s claims about the beautiful women who love sex and American men. However Josh is taken off guard when the man seems to strokes his knee in an appropriate manner leaving Josh to fly of the handle, forcing the man to apologetically leave their company … much to the amusement of Paxton and Oli. Arriving in Bratislava ...
...hostel recommended by Alex and are delighted to find out they are sharing the room with two stunning women, Natalya and Svetlana. A trip to the hotels spa mesmerises the trio where they find lots of naked beautiful women including their roommates for the night. Seemingly in heaven the boys are overjoyed that they accepted Alex’s advice and that night they arrange to go to the local disco with the girls and receptionist. After an uncomfortable confrontation ...

clumsy221 19.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Hostel (Unseen Edition) (DVD)

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This one made me feel dirty

Advantages: It's over fairly quickly
Disadvantages: Hammy acting, depressing, torture porn

...just become depressing and uncomfortable. Hostel 2 falls neatly into the latter category. I could write a detailed plot synopsis like I usually do in my reviews, but what it boils down to is this - three young American women travel to Prague, get abducted and tortured to death in a variety of gory ways by people who have paid for the pleasure. That's it, really. There are no subtle plot twists, no symbolism, no allegory, nothing. It's just people ...
...loving detail. You can almost imagine director Eli Roth jerking off during the literal blood bath scene. I'm not really a fan of this brand of horror (I have similar feelings towards the later Saw movies) so I suppose this one was never going to get high marks from me. It's not because I'm particularly squemish (I think gore and nudity have a place in any good horror film) but honestly, I just don't find anything entertaining about this movie. It's ...

Dr-Jones 14.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Hostel Part 2 (DVD)

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Hostel 2

Advantages: Thrillin, Gives goosbumps
Disadvantages: Too much of unnecessary gore and sex scenes

...Hunting tattoo. Axelle is then lured from the village festival into the woods by the Bubblegum Gang, where Beth surprises and beheads her. My verdict:- Thes hostel series have too much of sex scenes and nudity. The director could have concentrated more on the action and reduced the gory scenes. ...

anurag440044 16.11.2008 · Read full review
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I don't recommend going out alone after this...

Advantages: Everything
Disadvantages: The beginning is a bit slow

... Story Quarantine is a remake of [Rec] (2007). Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) opens the film shooting her opening part for the news. Angela and her filming partner Scott Percival (Steve Harris) show us around the fire station. We follow them as they travel around with two firefighters (Fletcher (Johnathon Schaech) and Jake (Jay Hernandez) as they go out on a call. They arrive at a building and little do they know the horros contained within ...
...Days & Weeks Later) but Quarantine brings a new threat along with it. Before we never really saw how the virus would develop and the affect it would have. This time, we see how the infection spreads within a short space of time and how people easily loose their sanity. I felt this had a deeper impact than the three movies I've mentioned and the horror wasn't overdone to the point where it would become cheesy. The only thing about this film that is ...

Prettyscene09 22.11.2009 · Read full review
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Just don't go to Slovakia.........

Advantages: Good thrills, gore and some well-developed scenes
Disadvantages: Under-developed characters, weak plot

...got a night in, but Hostel lacks a proper, solid plot or character development to ever become a 'classic.' The director, Eli Roth, concentrates too much on, 'what is the most violent, sickening way to kill someone, that I can show on screen?' He instead should be concentrating on developing his killers characters, and also developing the victims characters, in order to make the audiences feel for the killings. Still, the cinematography and special ...

midpikyrozziy 06.08.2008 · Read full review
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