Singled Out

If there is one movie that should stop your kids from ever wanting to backpack across Europe, than this movie must be Hostel, Quentin Tarantino's latest co-production. I've always loved Tarantino's work (who can forget Pulp Fiction or Kill Bill), so I had to see this movie.

Hostel claims to be "the scariest American movie in a decade, inspired by true events", and in one sense, that's true. Although there are some pretty gruesome scenes that will make your stomach turn, the movie shows that making a mere suggestion about what's happening offscreen can be more terrifying than actually showing it. Too bad that about halfway through the director seems to forget there's an actual storyline he wanted to follow, and the movie becomes a showcase of semi-realistic looking gore scenes. Byebye suggestion, welcome in-your-face horror. A missed opportunity, if you ask me.

This doesn't mean that Hostel is a bad movie, far from it. I'm pretty sure anyone who loves a scary movie will enjoy watching Hostel. Just don't expect too much of it as I did after seeing Tarantino's name on the movieposters, or you might be disappointed...