10 Horror Movies You Only Ever Watch Once
2. Hostel
On the subject of overly-gory films, Eli Roth's Hostel came out in 2005 hot on the heels of the torture porn craze laid down first by Audition and then rejuvenated by Saw.
The first title in what would eventually become an original trilogy of films, Hostel revolves around a mysterious organisation that captures, imprisons and tortures tourists who are lured to a Slovakian hostel. It is revealed that this organisation is made up of rich folk who torture and kill people to relieve some of the stresses of their everyday life.
Hostel really pulls no punches when it comes to its gore, with decapitations, throat slits and a blowtorch to the face all shown on screen with an excruciating amount of detail.
This genre of film is hardly known for its deep, layered storytelling, but there really isn't a whole lot to digest or enjoy with Hostel once its been endured once. It doesn't have the wacky time jumps or outlandish trap gimmicks of something like Saw and the film notoriously has an exceptionally cheap, grimey look to it. For fans of that sort of genre it's obviously worth a watch, but almost definitely not worth returning back to afterwards.