25 Greatest Easter Eggs From The Last 20 Years Of Horror
12. Hostel
The torture porn/gornography sub-genre was spawned in part by Eli Roths Cabin Fever, a tale of five kids in a cabin who become delirious and without skin when they contract a flesh-eating bacteria. The emphasis here is on the former part of each category: torture and gore.
Well, it takes little nudging these days for someone with a gaggle of willing actors and a camera to forget about those nasty details and focus on the porn. With salacious spins on film titles, its easy to see why customers flock to x-rated video stores. Roths debut was given the treatment a year after release with the imaginatively titled Sex Fever.
If you havent had a chance to see it, then you can catch a glimpse during his follow-up gorefest, Hostel. Moments after Paxton manages to escape from the scrawny clutches of his torturer, the film cuts to the guard outside, sat amongst the screams watching the porn rip-off on his tiny laptop.