Hostel - The Director's Cut [Blu-ray]

Hostel - The Director's Cut [Blu-ray] Review

Hostel is HANDS DOWN my favorite horror/torture movie of the new millenium. The scary thing about this movie is, is that this could really happen. Reality always adds to the fascination and scare factor in horror movies, video games, etc. The directors got the idea for Hostel when a friend emailed him a site where there was actually a murder-for-profit business in Thailand... which is "dismembered" in one of The Director's Cut's featurettes. So Hostel fans, The Director's Cut is simply a MUST HAVE!!

Also, living in Europe as well as other foreign countries while growing up, I can totally picture this happening to clueless backpackers trekking their way through unknown territory, language barriers, and where people could care less if you're an American or not. You may think you're entitled (as many Americans feel they are when they travel to a foreign country)--but you're/we're not.

Bottom line: People are effing sick, and stuff like this happens in real life everyday, all over the world--it's just not shown out in the open for all to see. Hostel just 'slices and dices', cooks that fact all together, and serves it to you raw in a nice little 'meat' package. If you gave this movie a low rating, it was because you couldn't handle the sheer reality of the story and the extreme violence. Simple as that. 5 stars!!

Hostel - The Director's Cut [Blu-ray] Overview

Backpackers are told of a secluded hostel that fulfills all hedonistic expectations, but are not told of the terror that awaits them.

Hostel - The Director's Cut [Blu-ray] Specifications

Well-made for the genre--the excessive-skin-displayed-before-gruesome-bloody-torture-begins genre--Hostel follows two randy Americans (Jay Hernandez, Friday Night Lights, and Derek Richardson, Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd) and an even randier Icelander (Eythor Gudjonsson) as they trek to Slovakia, where they're told beautiful girls will have sex with anyone with an American accent. Unfortunately, the girls will also sell young Americans to a company that offers victims to anyone who will pay to torture and murder. To his credit, writer/director Eli Roth (Cabin Fever) takes his time setting things up, laying a realistic foundation that makes the inevitable spilling of much blood all the more gruesome. The sardonic joke, of course, is that Americans are worth the most in this brothel of blood because everyone else in the world wants to take revenge upon them. This dark humor and political subtext help set Hostel above its more brainless sadistic compatriots, like House of Wax or The Devil's Rejects. In general, though, there's something lacking; horror used to suggest some threat to the spirit--today's horror can conceive of nothing more troubling than torturing the flesh. For aficionados, Hostel features a nice cameo by Takashi Miike, director of bloody Japanese flicks like Audition and Ichi the Killer. --Bret Fetzer

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