Article: At the Movies: 'Hostel'

CHRISTY LEMIRE, AP Movie Critic
AP Worldstream
01-06-2006
Dateline: NEW YORK
Eli Roth won't just show you a close-up of a chain saw severing the fingers of a hapless backpacker who's been chained to a chair and tortured. He'll also show you the bloody stumps falling onto the dark stone floor, as well as the partial paw that remains.

Such is the relentlessly graphic nature of "Hostel," which surely must have been intended as a homophone for "hostile," and is not for the faint of heart. (Reportedly not one but two ambulances were called to care for audience members who fell ill while watching the horror movie during last year's Toronto Film Festival. Coincidence? Perhaps not.)

Roth follows up ...

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