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By Mark Pfeiffer (406) for Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema (402) on 18 Jan 2006

This is a vile exploitation film, and a shoddily-made one, that's half softcore porn and half horror porn…

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By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 15 Jan 2006

Hostel certainly delivers in the gore department, and Roth, who knows and loves his favorite genre at least as well as the gang over at the…

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By Linda Cook (1,442) for Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (1,206) on 14 Jan 2006

Audiences either will embrace Hostel or they'll feel, well, hostile toward it…

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By Jan Stuart (404) for Newsday (2,345) on 13 Jan 2006

Seems to have been tailored to its designated R for brutal scenes of torture and violence, strong sexual content, language and drug use…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Lessons of Darkness (465) on 11 Jan 2006

Wants to be preeminent shock cinema, but doesn't have the [courage] to fully follow through on its promise of unbridled carnage…

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By Ken Hanke (2,234) for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (2,247) on 11 Jan 2006

Setting aside the question of the value of horror where the entire raison d'être of the film lies in showing people being tortured and murdered,…

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By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 11 Jan 2006

If last year was the beginning of the end for horror films, Roth shows there is still life - life in death - in the old girl yet…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 10 Jan 2006

Pure exploitation, ineptly made, and completely repulsive…

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By Mark Holcomb (179) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Jan 2006

Falling somewhere between fratboy porno wish fulfillment and Europhobic sex-tourism scare flick, Eli Roth's taut, wily, but ultimately pointless…

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By Rod Gudino (4) for Rue Morgue Magazine (29) on 10 Jan 2006

Buried somewhere in this movie is an interesting concept, but the delivery lacks imagination and suspense, and the plot is largely predictable…

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By Stina Chyn (75) for Film Threat (5,156) on 10 Jan 2006

What prevents Hostel from fully harnessing the suspense factor in its rising action, climax, and conflict resolution is the insufficient impetus…

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By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 09 Jan 2006

The tone is too schizophrenic for the movie to be great, but writer/director Eli Roth is showing serious potential…

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By Jeremy C. Fox (165) for Pajiba (523) on 09 Jan 2006

[T]here's plenty here that might make a person puke -- if not the torture, then perhaps the scenes in which the actors themselves puke, one…

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By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 08 Jan 2006

Now comes Hostel, the most extreme, punishing, pain-filled gorefest yours truly has ever cringed through…

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By Mark Collette (97) for Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) (351) on 07 Jan 2006

A steady, grueling, suspenseful march to a raucous finish that is likely to give it a devoted cult following…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 07 Jan 2006

A disturbing, uncompromising descent into the blackest corners of human nature…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 07 Jan 2006

Has the foresight to let us spend an hour or so with the stoners before the chainsaws are cranked up…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 07 Jan 2006

Skillfully made...but basically this is a movie that traffics in sadism as much as its villains do, and your reaction to it will pretty much…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 07 Jan 2006

nothing but a reined in gorefest for aficionados of torture,, and even they won't be happy until the director's cut DVD is issued…

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By Blake French (136) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 07 Jan 2006

A horror movie cannot run on shock value alone…

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