I love the Las Vegas vibe of this movie, and I adore the way the Elite Hunting Club has stepped up to using technology and allowing live audiences to come bet on the torture of their victims. It reminds me a lot of those deep web "red rooms", and I like those vibes. However, the acting and plot in this movie are weak. There's a crossbow though, and those are my favorite weapons, so that's nice. Plus, the scene where…
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Hostel: Part II 2007
This is my favorite Hostel film and second favorite horror movie of all time, although, like the first one, it doesn't really want to be a horror movie in any traditional sense. The concept of these movies is disturbing because it doesn't seem entirely implausible that American tourists could be kidnapped and tortured for money overseas. I liked that the main characters in this movie were women. The gore was still strong, although there are a couple of scenes that look super fake.
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Hostel 2005
This movie is a pioneer of the torture porn genre. SAW, one could argue, is a technically better horror movie, but Hostel doesn't want to be a horror movie; it wants to be a slasher, a splatterpunk film, torture porn. And torture porn is a glorious genre. I've always liked this movie, though it could do with a little less nudity (seriously, why is the first 40-ish percent of the movie just sex? I wasn't even sure I'd put the…
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Saw 2004
Every SAW movie is good, but this one is actually pretty weak. There wasn't a whole lot of action, the traps - aside from the Reverse Bear Trap - were lacking, and upon rewatching it recently, it was way more boring than I expected?? The psychological aspect had potential, I guess, but it wound up just being two guys whining for the most part and I wasn't invested. Also, Cary Elwes' voice kept going from an American accent to a British one and that was very distracting.
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