How disturbing is this movie?
I really want to watch it, but admittedly I can't handle excessively violent, gory films. So, what are movies you consider disturbing and how does this one compare to them?
shareIn terms of violence & gore it's really not that bad, in fact it's really rather tame.
It's certainly not a "disturbing" film - but then i'm more used to films such as Cannibal Holocaust, Men Behind The Sun, Martyrs, Snuff102 etc, etc. Or documentaries like Orozco The Embalmer.
Hostel is more along the lines of the Saw movies, but less gory than those.
There's not much here to shock tbh, apart from maybe one scene towards the end of the movie, but even that's not too bad, even in the uncut version.
I'd say you'll be fine!
"Hostel is more along the lines of the Saw movies, BUT LESS GORY THAN THOSE."
Completely disagree, the violence in Hostel is way more brutal. Saw is just filled by short torture scenes. Sure there is some gore, but even then it looks way less realistic (and more the franchise goes, worse it gets). Hostel in another hand has few torture scenes, but these scenes are long, and you have the time to enter the psychology of the victims (in the first one, except for Paxton, that wasn't so intense, but in the second one they nailed it). The first time you watch the movie you can actually feel sampathy for him and if you have a hard time to handle horror, you'll start to fear for him. The only Saw movie where I felt kinda the same thing for a character, is the doctor in the first one. And even then they try to go so deep in his personal life with all his flash backs that I almost forgot that he was trapped and will probably die.