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Loading ...Hostel isn’t horror.
Big_Adam
In recent years more and more bloody and horrid films have been coming out.
We got “Hostel” and now “Hostel 2″ as well as the “Saw” films. If you look these films up on IMDb you’ll see they come under the genre of “horror”.
I don’t know about you but horror scares the crap out of me. That’s sort of the definition of horror, scare the crap out of you in a massive way then leave you scared of your own shoes at the end of the film.
Now, I don’t class “Hostel” or any of the “Saw” films in this area as…..well….their really not that scary. I mean they have plenty of gore, death, blood but their really not that scary. In my mind both of these films are about as close as you can get to a snuff film without watching a true snuff film.
Lets look at “Saw”, in it the 1st film (I’ve not seen it. I have seen a later “Saw” film thats about it) you got a few chaps in a room who have to do horrible, horrible things to each other to get out. not really scary, interesting as to how they will get out and an odd look into their human choices but it’s not scary. You don’t walk out the cinema thinking “oh no my choice could be bad for Bob” later on.
Same with “Hostel”, not scary just disgusting with people getting their faces torched off by some old nutter in a basement.
It’s disgusting, sickening and wrong. But not scary.
While I write this I bought it up with good Mr JJ(W009) who puts it in a nice way:
” there isn’t a better label… ”
And damn it he’s right. We need a new label in the film world to cover these snuff sick style films that seem to be alright with the world (oh, but Manhunt is bad?).
Their just not scary films. Alien, Day of the Dead, Exorcist all proper scary ass films that will make you jump out your skin if you watched it late at night at home……alone.
Film people need to get off their arse and get on with proper films and classification of films. Or at least a sub section or something.
Totally agree with you there. Alien especially scared the crap out of me the first few times I saw it, and I still get the “holy sh*t what would I do if that was me” feeling every time I watch it. The original game was awesome too. Very rare in a film these days. I think films like Hostel are gross for the sake of being gross but personally I’ve never been into that kind of thing. I think horror+sci fi is a great mix as you have two genres that already push the limits mixed together and done right it can be a once in a decade film.
Let’s not forget Paradise Lost, which they’re currently advertising on DVD as having even more blood than the cinema screening (which is great news for the those who saw it at the flicks - hacks me off when they do that for comedies). So a bunch of people get sliced up, not for pure entertainment like Hostel but for their organs.
Horror goes in cycles, it’s either crap sequels or crap remakes that make them go away again, and when that happens any film with blood in it gets drafted in to fill the gap.
surely you answered your own question? “Snuff” was a word you used yourself, what’s wrong with that?