Here's the thing. I love horror movies. I even love bad horror movies. And I don't care about gore and such. I loved Saw and Saw II, and those were both very gory.
But I prefer movies that are capable of sticking in my head. I'm a huge wuss, so no matter what I'm going to end up jumping at the jump-out-scary parts. But Saw really got to me (Saw II, not so much). I was sleeping with the lights on for a while.
I feel like all Hostel tried to do was show a bunch of images of torture. And boobs. There were a lot of boobs. I mean, I guess I couldn't expect much, seeing as it was written and directed by that Cabin Fever dude, but still. On top of that, it took so long to get to the scary torture parts that I was beginning to get annoyed. I mean, the characters weren't likeable at all. They were the worst kind of frat boy. And the movie was just so obvious that really, the only things that evoked emotion beyond, "Wow, these guys really suck" were the torture scenes, which forced me to cover my eyes a few times.
I know a lot of people didn't like Saw, but I really did. And I think it was a lot better at getting under people's skin. I just don't even see Hostel as a very good generic horror murder type movie. It didn't have jump-out-scary parts, either.
A whole lot of people walked out of it. Why did Quentin Tarantino put his name on this movie?
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Did you like the French horror film High Tension? It's very gory. Not many boobs. Pretty interesting special effects. Has a twist.
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I liked High Tension a whole lot, although I figured out the entire movie within the first five minutes. I think it would've been better without the opening scene. It didn't really get under my skin, though. The gore isn't really the important part for a good horror movie, to me.
I admit to a morbid curiousity about these types of movies. I thought Saw had a good psychological edge to it that made it interesting to me. Saw II I didn't like. I thought it gave up the psychological edge and just went for shock. But Hostel just made me feel dirty. I left the theater vaguely ashamed for having watched it. Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty far from prudish about things. I watch flat out porn when the mood hits, and don't feel ashamed in the least. Maybe it was the overt mixing of purely pornographic shots with the over-the-top gore and violence that did it. I don't know. Hostel just made me want to take a hose to my brain.
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The thing about Saw II, I felt, was that Saw was so different and unexpected. And so for the sequel, we already have a basic idea of what's going to happen. We already know that there's going to be a twist. And since Jigsaw was apprehended at the very beginning, it's sort of...I don't know. The whole idea that Jigsaw had such a huge network in the first movie was what made it a lot scarier for me.
Saw II didn't offer anything new, so they just tried to throw in as many stomach-turning scenes as possible. Saw II made me cringe a lot more than Saw. I actually had to cover my eyes for the first scene and the one with the hypodermic needles. But it didn't chill me to the bone like the first one.
Kind of like how the first Matrix was really cool, but for the rest of them, you already know the concept
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