I went to go see it last thursday, and I was impressed, but for some reason, the movie got to me. I was legit-ly disturbed a little bit, and that is not easy to do to me.
I've seen Irreversible, I've seen Ichi the Killer, I have seen Audition, Salo, Cannibal Holocaust, Men Behind the Sun, and the most disgusting movie of them all, Brokeback Mountain (
), but I got a little unnerved with a few scenes in Hostel.
SPOILER ALERT MOTHERFUCKERS!!!
I think the scene when Josh (the quiet, possibly gay one) wakes up in the torture chamber, and the camera goes to an "eyehole in the hood" view where you can see from his POV, dazed and looking at the torture devices before the torturer pulls the hood off, was very disturbing. His pleading and kind of "this isn't happening" mood while the torturer was getting closer with the drill kind of made sense to me. Nothing like this could happen to me, this is all a dream, that's exactly how I would be acting. Then the drill goes through his leg, and he pretty much knows he's in for a long night.
I also felt really bad for both of the Asian girls in this movie. Really bad, especially the first one who gets her toe bolt-cut off. I guess it's not so much the gore or the torture itself, but the pleading, the begging for your life that got to me.
I thought it was a very effective movie, but the ending really kind of took it out of the crazy-exploitation zone and into a normal movie, which was kind of a let down. Oh well, it was at least as scary as the trailer for that new Queen Latifah movie, or the Pink Panther remake, now that one looks FRIGHTENING!
