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Dancing_P [ 7.0 ]
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Although gory 70 and 80's-style horror is enjoying a renaissance of sorts these days, I can't really say that I've been impressed at all by the recent crop. One of the leading figures of the genre is Eli Roth, whose previous effort (Cabin Fever), left me cold enough that Hostel did not particularly look all that tempting. Although it's not really that original (it essentially lifts its structure from Miike's Audition), it's a much more assured effort from Roth, a full-fledged horror film that doesn't feel like an overlong namechecking referential demo reel. All the more surprising considering it's produced by Quentin Tarantino. A couple of American twentysomethings (Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson) and one sex-crazed Icelander (Eythor Gudjonsson) go on a backpacking trip across Europe, partying hard and having sex with unrealistically hot European chicks. After getting a tip from a scuzzy guy in a motel, they decide to travel to Slovakia where there are apparently an endless supply of promiscuous supermodels with nothing to do. The rumors are true, but the supermodels may have something to do... and it involves painful, painful shit. Suffice to say that the last act is as brutal as they say, although even mild horror fans probably won't be fazed by the gore. There are a few things that prevent it from really being a terrific film, namely it's as nihilistic and as lacking in social commentary as the rest of its recently-released ilk. It seems enough to just show horrible things happening with little context (beyond 'Yo, Europe is BEYOND FUCKED UP BRO!') these days, which is pretty disappointing. Roth's effort, however, is gorier, funnier, better-paced and more entertaining.
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DokBrowne [ 6.5 ]
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By jettisoning his sub-fratboy sense of humor (yes, even the actual fratboy scenes in the beginning of this movie aren't as grueling as any given moment from "Cabin Fever"), self-congratulatory style, and his penchant for crude excess, Eli Roth turns in a fairly decent movie this time (thus marking a radical change in his technique; seriously). This one actually seems to have been made by a competent, adult human being. And yes, it's a lot like "Wolf Creek", only more entertaining and less nihilistic. There's not much to it, being a horror film, but what's there is efficiently executed, disturbing, satisfyingly gory, and has a good payoff (unlike "Cabin Fever", which had maybe the worst series of payoffs in movie history)
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| Weighted Rating | : 6.7 |
| No. Ratings | : 5 | |
| No. Reviews | : 3 | |
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