Hostel

[suddenlyseymour]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 11:47pm

ok who's going? I cannot wait for this one, looks creepy as hell

http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/hostel/medium.html

[broadway86]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 11:49pm

I'm excited. I thought Wolf Creek was great, and thsi seems to be in the same vein. However, I've seen clips online that even I (a horror movie fanatic since birth) had to turn away from.

[suddenlyseymour]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 11:52pm

Did you see that TV spot that has a warning? It goes something like "warning, at advance screenings paramedics were called due to the graphic nature or this film" or something like that....ahh!!

[RachLaura]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 11:52pm

everytime i see a preview it reminds me so much of Saw

[broadway86]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 11:55pm

It has a similar style to Saw. Hopefully, it will be better. I think Eli Roth has a great future in the horror genre. Cabin Fever wasn't entirely successful, but it was... certainly unique.

seymour-

I saw that spot, and I would like to know more about what exactly happened. Like I said before, the clips that I've seen are disgusting.

[TheatreDiva612]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 12:01am

yeah, I'd like to know what happened as well.

[suddenlyseymour]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 12:07am

yeah if that actually happened I would really like to know more about it

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 12:07am

Is this about the youth hostel I stayed at in Paris last September?

[broadway86]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 12:11am

BlueWizard-

I think it might be the same one... (gasp) Updated On: 1/3/06 at 12:11 AM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 12:52pm

"I saw that spot, and I would like to know more about what exactly happened."

It's producer Tarantino's tip of the hat to the folks who hyped the exploitation horror films of the late '60s and early '70s. They were cheapy movies, often from other countries, dubbed into English. To hype the movies, they would talk about how "nurses will be standing by" at all screenings. One, "Mark of the Devil" actually had vomit bags distributed to all movie-goers.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 1:41pm

I found this:
"At the first screening of Hostel at the Toronto Film Festival," writes Roth, "we had not one, but TWO medical emergencies. One guy left in the middle because he was so distraught and dizzy, and he passed out and fell down the escalator outside the theater! Paramedics were called and, luckily, the guy was fine, although if he had died it would have been a better story." (Empire would like to disassociate itself from any suggestion that people dying makes good news, and to stress that Roth meant it in jest. Not that he's jesting about someone being ill, of course. That wouldn't be nice. Er…)

But that wasn't all the drama during the screening. "About 15 minutes later, a woman flees the theater thinking that the film's giving her a heart attack! She's having chest pains - so the festival people called the paramedics again!!! Turns out she was fine, too. Oh well, serves 'em right for leaving in the middle! But how crazy is that? Two medical emergencies the very first screening! William Castle couldn't buy publicity like that."

Could have all been planned. Who knows.
full article: http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=17133

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 1:51pm

Tons of clips and spoilers here:


http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_6827.html

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 1:53pm

Those stories sound apocryphal to me. Fabulous, but apocryphal.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 1:54pm

Cabin Fever was lame. Why does it have a cult following?

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 3:29pm

Wow. Sounds like Roth's a sweetheart. Saying it would make a better story that someone died and saying that it served both of the aforementioned people right that they left in the middle of the movie and were taken away by paramedics. So sweet.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 2:17pm

This just looks like another one of the recent horror movies that isn't really scary just unpleasant. Whatever happened to story, character development, and suspense?
There doesn't look to be anything "creepy" in Hostel. Just two hours of watching people being tortured to death. And from what I've read, the film is extremely homophobic and misogynistc.
To me, it seems that Eli Roth is a non talent.

[whiskedaway]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 2:25pm

yeah, im sick of these "horror" movies with no plot or character development. just 2 hours of people getting tortured. whats the point?

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 3:23pm

I think it's just a question of how realistic and unpleasant a movie can be made. They make injuries and sadistic cruelty look so real and show things that would never be shown before. It's not that they couldn't do it, they just shouldn't. With each filmmaker pushing the envelope further and further with special effects, where does it end?

I was watching "She Hate Me" by Spike Lee (RIDICULOUS!) and a woman was giving birth. They literally showed the baby come out. I don't know if it was a real birth or an insane special effect, but soon there will be no need for acting.

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 3:40pm

Ugh! After seeing those clips....I think I'll wait for the DVD.

[justme2]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 3:58pm

I turn the channel each time that commercial comes on. The images are way too disturbing and make me want to leave the room.

[paradox_error]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 4:07pm

Broadway86, I have no idea whether the location of the Hostel is there, but there is no such country "Checkoslovakia"...

Czechoslovakia WAS a united country up until just after the fall of communism. For about as long as you've been alive, there have been TWO countries, one the Czech Republic, the other Slovakia. And, just so you know, they have similar, but unique languages...Czech and Slovakian.

The capital of Czech is Prague, Slovakia's is Bratislava (a beautiful small city, nothing like it is portrayed in EUROTRIP).

Posted: 1/3/06 at 4:37pm

I hated Cabin Fever.

Here in Vegas the film is being "presented by Tarantino" and Eli Roth's name is in little bitty letters.

Love it.

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 4:50pm

"Cabin Fever was lame. Why does it have a cult following? "

Cults often have bad taste.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 4:57pm

Rocky Horror, anyone?

[broadway86]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 5:27pm

Cabin Fever was lame. Why does it have a cult following?

Cults often have bad taste.

Well... because many people seemed to like it. I also don't think it's fair to insult someone's taste simply because they enjoyed a movie like Cabin Fever.

Whatever happened to story, character development, and suspense?

From what I have heard in early reviews, Eli Roth is surprisingly good at ratcheting up suspense. As for the lack of story and character development... let's wait until the film is released before we judge.