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When discussing 'torture porn' and the spectacle of the macabre, it is impossible not to reference this film and the controversy it created in the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.
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Otherwise, skip this and see a classic Hitchcock film. Hostel remains an important work 15+ years later because it is a tight, disciplined script that knows it is a b-movie and embraces those core elements. If your expectations are low enough, and your tastes in gore sufficiently robust, then you are in for a good time. I'm sure that it will attract an enthusiastic audience of young adults, but the evisceration by the critics will stem any hopes of huge box office. Josh ends up being more willing in spirit than he is in body.
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There was no explanation or clever twist at the end. American best friends Josh and Pax, staying at hostels along the way, decide to backpack through Europe following college graduation to indulge in all their hedonistic fantasies in part to help Josh recover from the heartache of a breakup. I walked out of the theater asking, "What was the point of all that?" And while this is described as horror, it really should be classified as thriller. The movie was slow in getting started and then the sprinted to a singularly boggling ending. It certainly felt like it hit all the necessary marks, from nudity and dismemberment to bloody revenge, but at the conclusion, it just felt like eating cotton candy - no real nutritional value, just a sense that I had satisfied some of my prurient appetite without any logical payoff. I like a rip-roaring horror movie as much as the next guy, but this one just didn't do it for me. .willing to accept any male companionship that might turn up at the local hostel - the trio quickly beats a hasty retreat to the out-of-the-way oasis.
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