Word: hostel
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...have a trailer or a preconceived notion, so you don't anticipate any shocks and scares. When I saw Saw (2004) there I was pretty freaked out by it. I think it disturbed me more than someone who knew what to expect. It was the same with Hostel (2005) a year later. But that's the whole point of the Festival...
...course, horror films aren't the only place kids can go to for their violence fix. Eli Roth, director of Hostel, an R-rated film about a European backpacking trip gone horribly wrong, knows that kids under 18 are seeing his films. He thinks they should be 15 or 16 to see the Hostel sequel, due out in June. "Kids that age have seen enough TV and real-life violence by then that they understand the difference," he says. "You can turn on Fox at 9 p.m. and see someone drilling into someone's head [on the series...
...months later, he and his friends can rent it from a video store, where kids are rarely carded. Or they go to Wal-Mart and buy the even grottier "unrated" version. (Wal-Mart won't sell R-rated movies to kids under 17, but it will sell unrated ones. Hostel was a No. 1 seller there.) Or they watch lurid clips on YouTube. You can whitewash the billboards, but you can't delete all the sources of input to a child's curious mind...
...www.bahamasun.com, www.jetblue.com Paris (and London) in the Springtime Can’t decide where to go this spring break? Don’t. Jet set to Paris and stay at the Caulaincourt Square Hotel, then take the train to London and set up camp at the Astor Hyde Park Hostel. Or, fly into London and out of Paris. For $424, you’ll get roundtrip airfare from Boston, accommodation for 6 nights and a one-way intercity ticket on the Eurostar. www.statravel.com For the Adventurer... Explore Costa Rica: $382 gets you airfare from Boston to San Jose, six days?...
...Moroccan immigrant Omar, 39, has worked steadily since arriving in Bologna three years ago. He's happy about that and relieved to have a place in a city-run hostel for single immigrant males, even though he'll have to find other quarters within a year. "This resolved a crisis for me," Omar says. "Life isn't easy for immigrants, but the city does help...