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| The poster for Scott Spiegel's Hostel: Part III looks like a cheap rehash of the posters for the first two films |
Four unsympathetic young men are en route to Las Vegas for a bachelor party. Once there they go to a party way off the Strip, where one of them disappears.
Far into Hostel 3, I was in. - The characters of Eli Roth's (Cabin Fever (2002)) first two films (2005 and 2007) aren't angels as well, - but then at some point I realized that I had not even a mild liking for any of the guys here, and that the film's focus seemed to flap around between them, seemingly unclear about who of them was leading the narrative ahead. Michael D. Weiss (Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)) has written the script, 'based on Roth's characters', (although there doesn't seem to be any characters from the first two films in this one.) It is directed by a producer on the first two films, Scott Spiegel (From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999)), and Roth was not involved in making it.
When Kip Pardue (The Rules of Attraction (2002)), who plays the ultra-douche, SPOILER begins to fight his friend, the film becomes involuntarily funny, because things simply get too ridiculous. And although Thomas Kretschmann (Valkyrie (2008)) is in this one, he never really becomes a very good villain unfortunately.
Hostel 3 is still a fairly large production SPOILER with cockroach-, face-ripping- and Japanese cyberpunk/crossbow-kills and an intro scene, which cleverly turns the franchise from its Eastern Europe setting to the Americans home scene. But when it's over, a fan of the first two films will almost certainly feel pretty disappointed. The Hostel franchise provisionally dies here.
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| Here are the four schmucks that are in for some cultural punishment in Scott Spiegel's Hostel: Part III |
Watch the trailer for the movie here
Cost: 6 mil. $
Box office: None - released straight-to-DVD and VoD
= Uncertainty
[But almost certainly a huge flop. - However, since DVD sales and VoD revenue have not been publicized, I can't know for sure. Hostel 3 is the first of the Hostel films to go straight-to-DVD. The release was meant to be followed by a viral marketing campaign, which was canceled, when the film got bad test screenings.]
What do you think of Hostel: Part III?
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