Story Synopsis:   Three backpackers travel to a hostel in a Slovakian city where the male population is scarce due to war.  What starts off as a hedonistic wet-dream come true quickly and systematically becomes a living nightmare.

I actually thought this one was better than the original. More character development (a much larger cast helped) and a greater total number of people and situations just made it overall more interesting. On top of that it was plenty disturbing, just like the original.

My wife doesn’t speak English well enough to really dig into a novel in English. I am sure she would do alright if she had to but the thing is that she isn’t much of a reader in the first place. I bought her a Spanish translation of Memoirs of a Geisha just as soon as it came out though, and she practically devoured it from cover to cover without putting it down.

Finally, I thought, when we went to see Memoirs of a Geisha together, she will understand what I’m talking about when I complain that a movie has failed to capture the essence of the book upon which it was based. Unfortunately for me and lucky for all the rest of us, Rob Marshall appears to have done as well at this as could possibly be expected.

Finally someone is applying what appears to some basic logic to the whole low-budget Horror thing. We’re making a movie with terrible actors and a script that could have been written by monkeys (since it was probably mostly ad-libbed anyway) but instead of getting people off the street to act in it we’ll use porn stars. Works for me, and it worked fairly well for this movie too. Remind me to get porn stars when I make my cheap horror movie.

Better than “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”!

Movies coming out of Australia continue to impress me. Having seen this I am going to have to go back and find a copy of “ICQ”, and earlier work by the same director. (Greg McLean)

So John Stockwell is asking God what the world really needs and God said, “there needs to be a movie about treasure diving. And it needs to have Jessica Alba in it because we haven’t seen enough underwater bathing suit shots of her” God went on to stipulate that the movie should not encourage drug abuse.