Hostel
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Mon 15 May 2006 // 21:15
Tue 16 May 2006 // 21:15
(Eli Roth / USA / 2005 / 35mm / 95mins / Cert 18)
Executive produced by Quentin Tarantino, Roth's follow up to his 2003 classic Cabin Fever ups the ante both in terms of blood and generic re-invention. Three
backpackers travelling around Europe on a hedonistic tour of bars and brothels find themselves invited into a man's house who tells them of a hostel somewhere in eastern Europe where the women are all incredibly hot and have a taste for American men. When they get there, everything is too good to be true - the hostel is "to die for". The film is many things - a satire on American ideas of Europe, an examination of post Eastern-bloc economics, a moral tale with a bitter twist - but at the bottom line, it is a superbly controlled exercise in visceral horror designed to make even the toughest stomach blanche. The kind of film Hitchcock would be making today were he still alive.
Executive produced by Quentin Tarantino, Roth's follow up to his 2003 classic Cabin Fever ups the ante both in terms of blood and generic re-invention. Three
backpackers travelling around Europe on a hedonistic tour of bars and brothels find themselves invited into a man's house who tells them of a hostel somewhere in eastern Europe where the women are all incredibly hot and have a taste for American men. When they get there, everything is too good to be true - the hostel is "to die for". The film is many things - a satire on American ideas of Europe, an examination of post Eastern-bloc economics, a moral tale with a bitter twist - but at the bottom line, it is a superbly controlled exercise in visceral horror designed to make even the toughest stomach blanche. The kind of film Hitchcock would be making today were he still alive.