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I didn't hate Hostel. I was disappointed with my first viewing, but I haven't had the chance to give it a second watch.
It is a loving throwback to grindhouse films, as urge said. A time I'm a bit too young to remember getting to live through, but a time I consider special none the less.
There are a lot of reasons why people don't really care for Hostel. First, it's been one of the first recent movies that really went overboard in touting itself as a complete gorefest in quite some time. However, a lot of the youger generation, having already been exposed to such fabled cinema as the Guinea Pig series, August Underground & the like found it extremely underwhelming. IT IS more gore and torture than the mainstream cinema goer would ever normally see in a horror movie (although it pales in comparison to certain war movies & The Passion) It was, IMHO, advertised more towards the hardcore crowd, promising gore and debuachery beyond what they've ever seen. Needless to say, for most it seemed to fail miserably on that part.
Then there's the gratuitous T&A. I'm not going into that here, though, as if I remember correctly there were about 20 threads dedicated to that subject within a month after its release.
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