Got out last night and saw Hosile. Not a terrible movie, but not all there either... I got a little bored at the end, and it was not very scary. The fact it was based on some events in past was suppose to scare you, it didn't do the trick to me though. Was a twisted movie, if you like that kind of thing.
Wait for rental, if you are a little iffy as I was.
Wait for rental, if you are a little iffy as I was.
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mike36799 Wrote:Got out last night and saw Hosile. Not a terrible movie, but not all there either... I got a little bored at the end, and it was not very scary. The fact it was based on some events in past was suppose to scare you, it didn't do the trick to me though. Was a twisted movie, if you like that kind of thing.
Wait for rental, if you are a little iffy as I was.
Do you mean the recently released movie called "Hostel?"
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I liked it. Eli Roth's approach to horror is atypical to say the least. Without giving anything away, it was a nice juxtaposition of hedonisms- gory and over the top between protagonist and antagonist.
Okay now. We've finally got a few posts on this movie, so I can reiterate what I posted earlier on this movie.
It is not a gore movie. It appears so in the ads, but what you see in the ads is what you see on the screen. Oh, of course there are some nice gore shots, thank you, but this movie was more like a Spring Break gone bad.
And speaking of coincidences--let's get real. Seems like these coincidences were thrown in to suck-up to the audience (the audience I was with cheered when the bad guys got theirs).
And lastly, more time should have been spent in the torture chamber. The set-up getting to the chamber was pure softcore porn. And the best horror scenes were those imagined, not shown, like a love scene where the camera moves from the actors and focuses on a full moon behind some rolling clouds. So yes, there is about an hour of T&A before you get to the 30 minutes or so of "let's play surgery."
Okay now, I'm a gore geek, I admit it, so I expect more from my "mocha" (pronounced MOH-Cha--as in cha-cha-cha--not mocha like the coffee), which is Spanglish for gore movie/book/documentary/etc. I read Fangoria to keep up with the latest mocha in film and read the Hollywood zines to keep up with the latest mocha in print (cyberpunk horror is currently dying out and being replaced by "ghost gore" (see: Pulse).
So you'll forgive me if I was a little disappointed with Hostel. Although...I did see it twice.
Rant over...or is it????
AC
P.S. "Munich" was good mocha, without even trying to be. Come to think of it, so was "Saving Private Ryan." Hmmmm.
It is not a gore movie. It appears so in the ads, but what you see in the ads is what you see on the screen. Oh, of course there are some nice gore shots, thank you, but this movie was more like a Spring Break gone bad.
And speaking of coincidences--let's get real. Seems like these coincidences were thrown in to suck-up to the audience (the audience I was with cheered when the bad guys got theirs).
And lastly, more time should have been spent in the torture chamber. The set-up getting to the chamber was pure softcore porn. And the best horror scenes were those imagined, not shown, like a love scene where the camera moves from the actors and focuses on a full moon behind some rolling clouds. So yes, there is about an hour of T&A before you get to the 30 minutes or so of "let's play surgery."
Okay now, I'm a gore geek, I admit it, so I expect more from my "mocha" (pronounced MOH-Cha--as in cha-cha-cha--not mocha like the coffee), which is Spanglish for gore movie/book/documentary/etc. I read Fangoria to keep up with the latest mocha in film and read the Hollywood zines to keep up with the latest mocha in print (cyberpunk horror is currently dying out and being replaced by "ghost gore" (see: Pulse).
So you'll forgive me if I was a little disappointed with Hostel. Although...I did see it twice.
Rant over...or is it????
AC
P.S. "Munich" was good mocha, without even trying to be. Come to think of it, so was "Saving Private Ryan." Hmmmm.
saynomore Wrote:Okay now, I'm a gore geek, I admit it, so I expect more from my "mocha" (pronounced MOH-Cha--as in cha-cha-cha--not mocha like the coffee), which is Spanglish for gore movie/book/documentary/etc. I read Fangoria to keep up with the latest mocha in film and read the Hollywood zines to keep up with the latest mocha in print (cyberpunk horror is currently dying out and being replaced by "ghost gore" (see: Pulse).
If you want the most from your mocha, seek out "Aftermath" by Nacho Cerda. I haven't seen it, but I've heard enough about it to decide I never want to.
I enjoy gore flicks, but not when they venture into "snuff" territory. "Dead Alive" for me is the ultimate gore flick. Don't get me wrong, I've seen tons of others, but this has always been the high-point for me.
You mentioned in the other post on this subject that "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" set a new bar for gore when it was released. You do realize there was virtually no gore in that film, right? It was all mostly suggestion, nobody was "chainsawed". It sounds like "Hostel" is looking back to these roots where suggestion does WAY more to you than actually showing whats going on. But, I haven't seen "Hostel", so I can't say for sure.
I saw this movie and I'm on the fence about how I feel. I didn't think it was overly gory, but it definitely had some rough parts. Although, a couple of the scenes looked totally fake, which bugs me. I was expecting a pure torture movie, which it isn't. I'll agree that early in the movie, there are more boobs and half naked girls than would be necessary. As far as horror and suspense movies go lately, this is probably one to see, but maybe on DVD.
Rent a movie called 'Pieces'. It came out in 1985. I saw it as a double-feature with Friday the 13th, Part V when I was about 8. I don't remember it all that well, except the killer taking a chainsaw to a girl and her peeing her pants as the teeth start to sink in. Also, the killer sewed together a new girl from all the parts he was taking. I'm not giving away anything imdb doesn't have posted for it.
APhew Wrote:If you want the most from your mocha, seek out "Aftermath" by Nacho Cerda. I haven't seen it, but I've heard enough about it to decide I never want to.
I enjoy gore flicks, but not when they venture into "snuff" territory. "Dead Alive" for me is the ultimate gore flick. Don't get me wrong, I've seen tons of others, but this has always been the high-point for me.
You mentioned in the other post on this subject that "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" set a new bar for gore when it was released. You do realize there was virtually no gore in that film, right? It was all mostly suggestion, nobody was "chainsawed". It sounds like "Hostel" is looking back to these roots where suggestion does WAY more to you than actually showing whats going on. But, I haven't seen "Hostel", so I can't say for sure.
I will look into "Aftermath." "Dead Alive" is the ultimate mocha, but I wish Peter Jackson would release a DVD version with extras. "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is very similar to "Hostel" in that tension is derived from situations rather than gore. I stand corrected (except for the guy on the meat hook scene--that was good moch). Re: snuff: Gore for its own sake sucks. Samuel Taylor Coleridge said it best: "Beauty next to the Grotesque makes Beauty stand out, and vice versa" (paraphrased).
AC
P.S. Jack Ketchum writes good mocha. (See: Off Season).