My school showed Hostel II in a common room yesterday. I hadn't seen it yet, just like the 99.9% of the country that didn't bother either. This movie was widely blamed as the one that began the decline of "torture porn" movement, where whole movies are built around murdering someone in the most painful way possible. I personally put more blame with the Saw movies. Hostel and Hostel II both give you plenty of time to get to know the victims before they head off to that dank basement full of power tools. The Saw movies started with big plot holes, which got exponentially bigger as the series went on. Saw IV could just be an Itchy and Scratchy episode at this point.
The fellow higher education students in Horror Marathon are attempting to watch even more movies than me (just for reference's sake, after watching Hostel II I went home and watched The Hoax, two Sopranos episodes, and a Treehouse of Horror). They should be so lucky as to get to watch all the Saw movies. - Sean
Thursday, October 25, 2007
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