Search Details

Word: hostel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...young to take death seriously, who will send those movies into almost gruesome profitability (some of the films have made more than $100 million). The group is loose knit, and other members include the director of the first Saw movie, James Wan, and his co-writer, Leigh Whannell; Hostel writer-director Eli Roth; The Descent's Neil Marshall; and Alexandre Aja, who remade Wes Craven's 1977 cannibalistic film, The Hills Have Eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Splat Pack | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

Roth's film Hostel, about young backpackers caught in a pay-for-torture club in Slovakia, was inspired, he says, by a website he saw advertising a club in Thailand that claimed to let you shoot someone for $10,000. The torture scenes Roth devised came from researching European witch trials and Nazis and from some trips he made to the tool aisle at Home Depot (one shot guarantees you'll never look at bolt cutters the same way again). In the scene that won Roth the Most Memorable Mutilation prize at this month's Scream Awards, a kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Splat Pack | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

...only thing that could end this horrorteurs lovefest, it seems, is if the extreme gore craze starts to suffer from, well, overkill. After Saw III comes Turistas, which is sort of like Hostel with Brazilian bikini girls instead of Slovakian ones. In addition to Tarantino and Rodriguez's Grindhouse, 2007 will bring a full sicko slate, including Hostel: Part II, a retooling of Halloween by Zombie and The Hills Have Eyes II. "These movies aren't for everybody," admitted Zombie, the day after he turned in his Halloween script. But they don't have to be. "I see trailers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Splat Pack | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

...MOVIE SAW THE DEVIL'S REJECTS HOSTEL THE HILLS HAVE EYES THE DESCENT SAW III THE FILMMAKERS Leigh Whannell and James Wan Rob Zombie Eli Roth Alexandre Aja Neil Marshall Darren Lynn Bousman THE GORY DETAILS An ill villain pushes victims to value their lives by forcing them into grisly traps in the 2004 hit Cost: $1.2 million Box office: $103 million A clan of serial-killer hillbillies take off on a gory road trip as they run from police Cost: $7 million Box office: $20 million Young backpackers unwittingly stumble onto a pay-for-torture club in Slovakia Cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Splat Pack | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

...will have you feeling quite at home. A cozy cigar lounge-cum-library, beds adorned with Belgian linen and down-filled pillows, and a swimming pool - rare in a property this size - make it even harder to leave. PHRANAKORN NORNLEN: Not so much a boutique hotel as a backpacker hostel done right, the 50-room Phranakorn Nornlen, www.phranakorn-nornlen.com, wins the approval of its bearded, tie-dye clientele by incorporating recycled materials in almost every aspect of the fittings. Showerheads are hammered together from brass dessert bowls; remaindered tins of mismatching emulsion from the local paint shop give the walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Is Beautiful | 8/29/2006 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Next