This movie is NOT for people who do not enjoy extreme horror. I suggest at least watching SAW before watching this movie because it makes SAW look like dora the explorer and I'm not kidding. I'm usually fine with graphic violence but this one was WAYYY too gory. Although I was able to sit through it and enjoyed the movie, it was excellent in my opinion. Mouth watering for real horror fans like myself although like I said you will cringe during this movie, There is also a large ammount of nudity at the beginning. Know your kid people.
Hostel
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Extremely brutal and graphic; not for kids or the faint of heart.
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What Parents Need to Know
This review of Hostel was written by Cynthia Fuchs
Parents need to know that this film is absolutely not for kids. The premise and primary "plot" is torture, specifically, the torture of young travelers by wealthy adults who pay thousands of dollars for the experience. These images are graphic and bloody (severed limbs, penetrated genitals, sliced Achilles tendon, gouged eye, with weapons including scissors, chainsaws, knives, hammers, drills, clippers, guns, cars, and chairs). One character throws herself in front of a train when she sees her disfigurement following torture. These violent scenes are preceded by a sojourn in Amsterdam, featuring girls' breasts and one frontal nudity shot. Characters engage in boisterous sex and a man makes a homosexual pass at an unwilling young man. Characters smoke, drink, and do multiple sorts of drugs. Characters use frequent foul language (over 100 f-words, derogatory terms like "faggot" and, in this context, "gay," slang for genitals, "damn," "hell").
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- Families can talk about the film's rudimentary moral lessons. What lessons is the film trying to convey about backpacking through Europe or class disparities? Or, you might consider the film's evocations of movie conventions, appeals to genre connoisseurs (including homages to executive producer Quentin Tarantino). Are these images cynical responses to a violent world or incisive commentary on violence in media?
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What’s the Story?
American backpackers Paxton (Jay Hernandez) and Josh (Derek Richardson) are traveling with their new friend Oli (Eythor Gudjonsson), each trying hard to impress the others with his capacity for partying. In Amsterdam, they're amazed by the availability of sex, marijuana, and hash, all of these indulgences featured in graphic imagery. The boys are thrilled to learn from the ultra-skeezy Alex (Lubomir Silhavecky) that a hostel in Slovakia promises even more loose girls and more potent drugs. They hop on a train tout de suite. Here they're forewarned of the mayhem to come when a fellow traveler, an older Dutchman (Jan Vlasák), makes an unwanted pass at Josh. Still, the boys' cockiness only escalates when they meet a few girls who do indeed seem enthralled with them, in particular Natalya (Barbara Nedeljáková) and Svetlana (Jana Kaderabkova). Soon enough, everyone is intoxicated and having sex, and one by one, the boys disappear. When he wakes up tied to a chair with a spastic German man whizzing a chainsaw over him, Paxton eventually pieces together that they have been kidnapped for use in torture rituals by wealthy customers who pay to abuse and kill pretty young tourists.
Is It Any Good?
HOSTEL is as brutal a film as you're likely to see this year. This is definitely NOT for kids.
The fact that Paxton must pose as one of the clients, and, while wearing rubber aprons, endure a conversation with an anxious first-timer (Rick Hoffman) suggests the film's other agenda, the one that's not just grossing out and repulsively titillating an audience familiar with gore conventions. Whether or not Paxton recognizes his own consumerist frenzy in this pompous, too-excited goon, you can hardly miss the mirror images of grasping for hedonistic experiences at the expense of "native" cultures and compliant objects.
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I rate this title iffy for age 14 and give it
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- Excessive violence
Very graphic, Very violent, Very good.
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I rate this title on for age 16 and give it
In the beggining it does have a bit of sex and nudity but its nothing compared too films like american pie. With all the sites on the internet and all the things they talk about at school this is nothing. In the middle of film the gore starts. It may be bloody and they show differnt types of torture methods it looks preety fake. Its not that scarely but then it depends on who watches it. NOT FOR FAINT HEARTED
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I rate this title on for age 16 and give it
In the beggining it does have a bit of sex and nudity but its nothing compared too films like american pie. With all the sites on the internet and all the things they talk about at school this is nothing. In the middle of film the gore starts. It may be bloody and they show differnt types of torture methods it looks preety fake. Its not that scarely but then it depends on who watches it. NOT FOR FAINT HEARTED
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I rate this title iffy for age 15 and give it
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- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
It's very gory and has plenty of nudity/sex. Definitely not for young kids. I saw it when I was 15 though it depends on the kid.
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I rate this title off for age 17 and give it
Most parents will say no to letting their kids watch this, but most kids end up seeing it anyway. If they go over to a friends house, you can be sure they're watching movies like this. It's literally pointless to try to keep them from seeing it. I know the MPAA is a guide line and sure, good for them, but it's useless.
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I rate this title off for age 17 and give it
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- Excessive violence
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SICK!
THIS IS A VERY SICK AND DISTURBING FILM. Oh my god i almost threw up to this movie no joke. It was sick and plain stupid. No point. And one disturbing part had me turn off the movie. Please dont go see this movie and put this garbage in your mind.
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I rate this title pause for age 16 and give it
One of the best films.
People need to understand, just because you don't like gore does not mean you review a film badly, like commensesensemedia.org seems to rate any film involving gore as bad, clearly as they are anti-gore. However, this film is awesome, it puts you in environment of safety at the beginning, then to let you feel disturbed by the dramatic change into the twisted possible realism people could face. And does not get boring for a second, any-one who does get bored clearly does not understand the film, as there is more to it than just gore, if you think outside the box. As for the person who reviewed it saying its pornographic!?!? clearly you are very religious I must assume! But yes a highly entertaining film, giving light on the more twisted side of this world. Unlike the sequel hostel 2, which was complete shit :)
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I rate this title on for age 16 and give it
Excellent Story - Makes you think
I have had inconsistent feelings about Quentin Tarantino films, but I really enjoyed this one. The story is full of double-meanings and moral dilemmas. It would have made an excellent book. This film is not afraid to push boundaries. It sheds light on a world that most people are comfortable in believing does not exist. I would consider this film appropriate to anyone with an open mind and who can differentiate fiction from reality. There is not as much gore as I had expected, but there definitely is plenty. There is also quite a bid of nudity, although I believe that, in general, bias against nudity in media is greatly exaggerated. It is not prudent to allow partiality for or against the more questionable elements of the cinematography to distract from the story and the real meaning that the filmmakers are trying to convey in HOSTEL. This is the kind of story I wish I would have had the opportunity to write about in school.
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I rate this title off for age 0 and give it
Why? Why? WHY?
Is all I can ask myself about some of these "horror" movies nowadays? Does sex and over-the-top brutal murders constitute as a great movie? This movie had two different sides. Porn. And Murder. There was hardly an in between and deserves no more than one star for such a disaster of a movie. I could hardly watch some of the scenes in this movie. It seems it's become a battle among writers as to who can think up the most disgusting slaughter fest, and it5's not very enjoyable.
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I rate this title off for age 0 and give it
Woah!
I don't think this ADULTS should be watching this movie! I'm sorry I paid for the ticket! VERY disturbing!
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I rate this title off for age 0 and give it
I didn't even watch the whole movie it made me SO disgusted!
Unfortunately I went to the theater that night not even knowing what I was going to watch. This movie is so full of blatant sex scenes, nude women and perversion, I couldn't stand to watch any more of it. Later, I heard from some people I know; that this is the goriest movie they've ever seen. This movie made me more disgusted than any movie I've seen yet; and I've seen some movies that I wish I hadn't seen...but this one doesn't even compare. This movie should have definately been rated stronger than R.
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I rate this title off for age 0 and give it
very bloody movie
the most bloddiest movie ever made
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I rate this title on for age 0 and give it
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I rate this title off for age 0 and give it
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I rate this title off for age 0 and give it
Parents Beware
This film is precisely what's wrong with the MPAA rating system. The system may punish sexuality, but the vile, extreme, gruesome violence in this film passed with an R, making me wonder what film the ratings board saw. In spite of what this says about American society, know that multiplex cinemas can't regulate every auditorium, and unless films receive an NC-17 when deserved, cinemas won't police auditoriums sufficiently to keep children out.
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I rate this title off for age 0 and give it
One of the best horror movies I've seen, but extreme gore-out
This is, in my opinion, a horror masterpiece! But that doesn't mean it's for everyone. I personally love these kinds of horror films (extreme violence and gore), but some people should consider the following. Many scenes in the movie can really disturb the faint of heart, as in one scene a girl gets her face burnt very badly with a blowtorch by someone who did it willingly and with intentions to hurt her. There's also graphic sex,language, and drug use. But it's up to parents to decide what's alright for their kids to see and if they could handle it. I can, and this certainly isn't the bloodiest or goriest movie I have seen, but it certainly is in the top 10. I'd reccomend this movie to fellow horror film buffs, and most certainly only if you're allowed to.
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I rate this title off for age 0 and give it
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I rate this title off for age 0 and give it
EWWWWWWWWWWWW
THIS IS A MOVIE THAT U WILL TELL YOUR KIDS NO,BUT THE'LL C IT ANYWAY
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