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You could tell during this movie they were trying their best to make it a distant cousins to Hostel, setting it in the middle of nowhere in Eastern Europe, that same clique. It was trying it's best to be something it just wasn't, a decent horror movie.

Initially I watched this movie because of the cover of it, it looked somewhat interesting but this movie was a fail. I usually turn movies off when they start to bore me and I guess I hoped for an almost Last House On The Left revenge story but instead I got..unimpressed, disappointment and boredom. The end was just the epic downfall of the whole movie, difficult to say since it really wasn't that impressive.

The acting was awful, the way the characters interacted with one another was boring and forced and there wasn't anything about this movie that I actually liked. It was difficult to find even small good things about it, maybe the initial premise was good jumping off point but that was a dive straight into concrete.

I wouldn't recommend this movie for anyone who is a horror fan, you won't find any aspect of it that fits nicely in the horror genre except maybe being in a place you don't know in the middle of nowhere.

It's hard to tell whether I'm bias or not given my love for noir and neo noir styled movies but I really did enjoy this movie. With the exception of Dakota Johnson that has as much personality and presence as a brown paper bag, the rest of the cast was perfection. It's a rag tag group of curious people each with their own stories but at the same time somehow meld together for a movie that felt exciting, intriguing and it actually had the answers for the questions asked along the way.

This is a hotel where those trying to hide, uncover and destroy their secrets and their pasts. Of course though, nothing is that simple. Where there is smile there is fire as they always say and by the end of the movie that fire truly burns bright.

Jeff Bridges and Chris Hemsworth steal the show in this one.