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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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I most certainly did not like it. Since Saw, the horror genre has been almost completely overshadowed by the gore genre. In fact, movies in the gore genre get called horror and horror movies rarely get made.

The movie that freaks me out the most (as someone who spends a lot of time in the woods alone) is the Blair Witch Project and that contains no blood at all. If you like the Blair Witch style or even just paranormal films with a psychological twist, check out The Last Broadcast (film) .



thanks for the recomendation, I'll look into the Last Broadcast.

 

And looking into the wikipedia entry for Hostel it seems the gore genre was given a name "Gorno" which I think is appropriate. Gore flicks are not the same as horror flicks.



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Its just plain awful, I hated it. Its like a bad porn movie and a bad slasher flick fused into one.

Saw is alright, but every time I watch it I like it less. Saw II is probably a better movie, at least I enjoy it more.

Rob Zombie's Halloween remake was surprisingly good, so I recommend that. Look at it as more of an interpretation then a remake and you will probably enjoy it. Its pretty well paced and has some awesome chase sequences.

You want a DAMN good horror movie though, watch The Orphanage. Man, that movie was just plain incredible. It was produced by Guillermo del Toro of Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy fame.

Another one that was pretty good that some people loved and some people hated but which scared the SHIT out of me was The Strangers.



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The better film is def. Cabin Fever. It's funny, scary and original. The one thing i think Roth does well in both is make the protagonist violent, so violent that you don't expect it.

Thats the failure of modern Western horror, theyre not nearly as threatening as they should be.

I second del Toro but you got to see The Devils Backbone, it was his last serious european horror prior to Pan's Labyrinth, and its probably his scariest film.



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Hostel wasn't scary. The better recent Western horror film was The hills have eyes.



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megaman79 said:
Hostel wasn't scary. The better recent Western horror film was The hills have eyes.

Hell yes, dude.  The new The Hills Have Eyes was amazing, and better than the original.  It was such an intense movie.  Several girls I know refuse to watch it to this day because it freaks them out so much.

I will have to check out that movie del Toro did before Pan's Labyrinth.

 

 



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Hostel is a really bad and stupid movie.