Capo
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Post by Capo on Apr 17, 2007 23:25:06 GMT
Hostel Eli Roth 2005 USA Three tourists are encouraged to find a hostel in Bratislava renowned for easily sexed-up women; but they happen across a nightmarish place for torture, whereby backpackers are cut-up and killed for money. Interesting, and mediocre. The opening segment is ridiculous, full of risible dialogue and entrenched in hideously two-dimensional situations. The locations and characters are entirely flat, lacking in character and life - which makes their brutal deaths a mere plot mechanism. Of vague interest, especially early on, however, is the way in which these ignorant Westerners are set up, a kind of play on the American Pie stereotype, which has some amusing if serious implications on us as viewers in taking a genuine pleasure in their grisly deaths.
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