ultra_tippergore This foreign movie is a great example of a good horror movie without the millions of dollars that Hollywood use in their horrible flicks. First a Warning, this movie is in Spanish with English subs, and its in Black and white (looks like DV, not film but i don't know that for sure). If you cant stand subtitles or B&W, stay away from this. If you want to see a very good horror movie, get this from netflix now! A group of young girls are in a town in the middle of nowhere were all the inhabitants are religion-freaks. The massacre begins quickly. There are some Dario Argento inspired moments, like the nightmare sequences, that are really good and creepy. Also, there is a cool amount of blood and gore. 8/10

Scarecrow-88 Four females in search of an exit. Four young women, on route to Trinidad for an abortion, become confined within a creepy bed'n'breakfast in some small, hostile impoverished town of San Ramone where a preacher, Horacio(Oscar Ponce)has a religious hold over. His iron fisted fanaticism has the town in his grip. This might play into the ultimate plot where these girls find themselves closed within the dark of the hotel as they pursue an escape route as some psycho with a meat cleaver chases after them. The main protagonist is Theda(Elena Siritto), crippled with guilt..it seems she was plagued with premonitions they are now facing even before the train trip. The film follows these girls as they travel throughout a house where booby-traps and benevolent figures hide in the darkness ready to appear at any time.The film uses the Hostel premise(poor souls away from home and stuck in a situation where no one of merit can hear them scream or know where they are)and ratchets up the suspense thanks to the brilliant idea of lensing this in B&W photography. Granted the film is shot micro-budget, but the idea of B&W photography brings an uncanny dread to the proceedings. You might ask:why shoot this in B&W? Simple..because the darkness for which the characters are caught engulfs the screen. Man, is it claustrophobic, also. There's an amazing scene where director Adrián García Bogliano pulls the camera back as three of the girls become merely a white circle completely overtaken by darkness around them..it's absolutely stunning. The director drains every ounce of terror he can from the simple plot and doesn't hold back on the grisly unpleasant violent attacks. He shows the killer slicing open the skin of several girls as the wound opens slowly. One poor girl gets her face blew apart by a shot-gun blast. The B&W photography might remove the red blood, but the violence certainly is potent enough to garner a reaction, that's for sure. The ending, when it is revealed why these girls are being slaughtered, has a dark sense of irony. Keep an eye out for this director..he's going places.

m0rg16 It's interesting to see what the director tried to do with this film. But the problem is that it's not very good. There was nothing really original in the film and while the plot was well presented, the main characters were all a bit to shallow and you didn't bother for any of them.Rather bland (and sometimes downright bad) photo leaves a bit to be desired but I guess you can't expect to much from people who are just doing a low budget film for the heck of it. It's unfair to review the film and compare it to other high-budget films. But alas, that is what one must do. On its own, it's not very good. And compared to others, it's still not very good. But it is not without its good points! I liked the plot. It was built up rather nicely and tied together well at the end. Sometimes in the really dark scenes, it managed to build up a creepy feeling as well.However in the end the film fails to impress. The characters are pretty much non-existent and we don't care for any of them. Any of them might die, but it's possible to pinpoint the final "survivor" from very early on.

treintayseispasos Being as this argentinean slasher was just released on DVD, I maybe should have posted in the DVD forum. However i wanted a slightly bigger forum to praise this hidden gem.I'm not sure how many of you have heard of "rooms for tourists" but it's basically a very low budget argentiean version of "hostel" with 5 girls trapped in a hostel while waiting for a bus. I don't want to give anything away but Naturally there are some psychos around to do some bloody work here.This is surprisingly well done for the obviously small budget the picture was alloted. With very good gore effects that won't let any gore hound down.Filmed in black and white helps hide the low budget feel. But I have to say, director Adrian Bogliano could teach Eli Roth a few things about suspense and style. This is everything "hostel" should have been. While not completely original and hit and miss on scares, you can't help but appreciate a slasher that has style and actually contains characters you like and care about what happens to them.I hope Bogliano stays with the genre and can get some better funds for his next movie. This is definitely a movie any slasher fans should check out especially those who felt burned or even slightly disappointed with "hostel".