Been a while

Sorry to have had such a long gaps between posts. Time seemed to slip away due to school, work, and a number of "real life" situations. This update is going to be a short but a more detailed review shall be posted either later tonight or tomorrow.

I recently rented Hostel II, against my better judgment. I knew that it was not really going to be a "good" movie, or even so laughably bad to make it enjoyable. It was, as expected, almost pure torture porn, to use a now socially acceptable description of gore-fest movies that also have a heavy dose of T & A.

I do have two noteworthy observations about the film.

The first one is that the human body can only take so much stress and abuse before the person passes out, even if they are running on adrenaline. So half of the victims would most likely only be conscious for about half of the time the movie portrays them being aware enough to beg for their lives.

Secondly, the people doing the torture don't seem to care about hygiene or sanitation. Now, I don't mean that their tools for torture weren't bright, shiny and sterilized. No, my concern has to do with a specific scene. A scene in which a naked young woman is suspended (upside down, mind you) over a tub surrounded by candles and a slightly older naked woman comes in, lays in the tub, and then cuts the holy Hell out of the girl. You know, the whole, killing her slowly while bathing in her blood.

Now, who screened the victim? This woman is getting the blood of a stranger dumped all over her, and into her eyes. Personally, I hope her victim had AIDS, HIV, or Hepatitis. It would be kind of poetic to be "killed back" in that manner.