Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Hostel Movie

I will usually try to check out other movies in the same vein or similar genre when I go to work on a screenplay.  Before working on my Crazy Family feature screenplay, I read the script for the remake of, "The Hills Have Eyes."  It was okay, but I wasn't blown away by it.

Over the last three days, (yes that's how long it took me to get through a 90 minute movie, time is scarce here) I watched the movie, "Hostel," by Eli Roth.

I was pleasantly surprised on how much set up and character development there was.  In fact, the beginning didn't have much horror to it at all.  It was a nice change of pace and I did feel for the characters in their hellish predicament.  I have to wonder how the script got read since not much happens in the first five minutes, and I've always read and have been told how important those first five minutes are and you better hook your reader right away.  Basically they hit a couple of clubs looking for girls.

It was a good movie, but certainly violent when the torture happens.  It's not for the weak of heart or stomach.


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