Hostel opens with 3 drug minded college age kids looking for sex in Amsterdam. They pay for it and we get our first montage of female nudity. They meet a guy who tells them of a Hostel(place to stay) somewhere near the Ukraine where the girls are all gorgeous and naked. The boys quickly travel to said Hostel and in the spa we get our second montage of female nudity. The guys do more drugs and go back to the hostel where they have sex and we have our third montage of female nudity. It pretty much sounds like heaven, seeing as how they amassed the most beautiful naked bodies known to the human mind, but of course there is something darker lurking.
This film, directed by Eli Roth who brought us cabin fever, takes a twisted turn towards the bloody and gory. The guys are picked off one by one and taken to some dungeon where they are dismembered in horribly disgusting ways. The dungeon is dank and dark and somehow you feel as if you are right there. Most of the gore is actually implied and is in fact no worse than the Texas Chainsaw remake, but hearing the chainsaws, or even worse, hearing the skin being sliced is enough to make one want to vomit. I wanted to turn the movie off, yet there is something about the film that draws you in. It certainly isn't the acting by Jay Hernandez and it certainly isn't script, which mostly contains words for female genitalia, curse words and lots and lots of screaming and crying. But it is there. The story. The curiosity of what is going to happen next and wondering how it will end.
The movie is not for the prudish or squeamish but if you can endure more than a fair share of nudity, blood and severed body parts I recommend skipping saw and renting this guiltiest of guilty pleasures. Also, the ending, I think speaks to human beings at their core, which is not what I was expecting here.
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