Word: hostel
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...Rosenfeld, herself a former Lowell resident, is currently taking a semester abroad in Argentina, but felt strongly enough about the cause contra cockroaches to write a letter to The Crimson in late September decrying the College’s handling of the pest problem. E-mailing from an Argentinean hostel on Sunday, she said that the frustration—and the sting—of her cockroach encounters had not been dulled by distance. “From the innumerable encounters that I have had, a deep phobia has grown,” she wrote. “Never...
...seconds of the Borat trailer. Then came a trailer in, of all languages, German (subtitled in English): a guttural voice observing that in the U.S. 10,000 people are killed each year, most of them by guns. "Americans," the voice sneers, "they have no imagination." The title came on - Hostel Part II, a sequel to the horror hit about an abattoir for unwary humans - and the audience erupted in cheers...
...Vendetta, which is after all about a defaced creature in a cave who plots violent revenge on his enemies, and Saw III, which would require a blackout on 3,000 screens to keep it from being declared #1 on Sunday. But the very first weekend of January, Hostel emerged triumphant over King Kong and The Chronicles of Narnia. Two and four weeks later, Underworld: Evolution (a sequel) and When a Stranger Calls (a remake) reigned. In April, Scary Movie 4 giggled its way to $40 million, and the next week Silent Hill made $20 million...
...Flags cost $55 million to make, plus another $35 to market. That's not a lot for a prestige epic, but it's in the Superman Returns empyrean compared to many horror films. Hostel, for example, was made in the Czech Republic for a pinchpenny $4.5 million and grossed 10 times that in North America alone; its worldwide take was $80 million, and we haven't even got to the video revenue, where horror movies clean...
...better to punish it. It's a weirdly anti-life streak that runs through most vampire movies, where one dies, or becomes undead, with a single love bite; death those movies say, is a sexually transmitted disease. Even the non-supernatural horror films, from Psycho to Halloween to Hostel, tend to begin with young people having sex-play, then kill them off. Hostel, whose first 40 mins. are a-groan with luscious young women, eventually turns to more esoteric issues. Like, what to do with a dangling eyeball that's been yanked from its socket? You might guess: push...