Hostel III (2011)
Hostel III on Netflix Streaming
At the risk of defending the overall notion of the trilogy theme and Elite Hunting, and telling people to move past the lesser video quality, I like this one. It takes the idea of the first two-- rich assholes paying to kill other humans without reparation or punishment in the middle of nowhere-- and elevates it to a gladiator ring. Forget the characters in this, members bid on the right to kill, gamble on the number of shots taken or kind of victim pleas, and watch everything behind the safety of glass. Like a peep show for the bloodthirsty.
Some of the humour and quirkiness is gone, replaced with an action/thriller mood, but I really can't complain. It seems to be a bigger commentary on the setting of the new arena, that placing it stateside in the den of gambling and vice, it must be taken seriously.
Except it's still Hostel. And stripping some of the humour strips out some of the horror, too. Oh well.
Would I watch it again? Yes.
Would I own it? Eh, probably not.
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