15 Recent Horrors You Should Avoid This Halloween

15. Hostel: Part III

Eli Roth's Hostel was among the first of its kind for a Western film (we're not counting the Takashi Miike pieces it was heavily influenced by), and is, along with the similarly influential Saw, widely credited with kick-starting the genre's 'torture porn' phase. A brutal, gory and undeniably scary work of cinema, what it lacks in subtlety it more than makes up for in guts (literally, at times) and bravado. The sequel is even better.

Less so, the third entry in the series.

Directed by Scott Spiegel and written by Michael D. Weiss, with minimal involvement from Roth, it ships the franchise off to Vegas, and skips the cinematic release. Cheap, ugly and unimaginative, it adds nothing to the story worth telling, and seems largely to have killed off the franchise, stone cold dead.

Unless you're planning on boring your Halloween guests to death (one bug-bite demise aside), this one is best avoided. For our money, you'd be better off with the more recent Baskin, instead, which takes the torture basement theme and truly runs with it... all the way to Hell.