I just saw it and I thought it was a terrible horror movie. All gore, no horror. I was severely disapointed. Maybe I'm just desensitized after all these years, but that movie was just lame as far as horror films go. The lovecraft method of "imply don't show" I think is far scarier than this full monty version of horror. Movies like "Event Horizon" I think succeed far more because they are more psychological. By not showing what is scary, and just giving brief glimpes of what is scary it relies on your own mind, your fear, and imagination to fill in the blanks which is far worse than just "Chainsaw the leg off" "Cut off the dangling eyeball and then unspecified green stuff squirts out" which all seems kind of cheesy to me.
Anyone else see Hostel? Did you like, not like? What did you think?
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