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Hostel Inspired Japanese Film 'Grotesque'
Tuesday, January 6, 2009


By: MrDisgusting
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Some big news for HOSTEL fans as Koji Shirashi's Grotesque will be released on January 17th in Japan, according to Nippon Cinema. Over at BDTV you can check out a pretty brutal trailer for the film (not work safe), which shows that Shirashi was obviously inspired by Eli Roth's HOSTEL franchise (right down to the color scheme). Even the film's official website displays that the promo materials for the film are HOSTEL inspired. For loads more info on the film, click on over to Nippon Cinema, the site who we'd like to thank for bringing this film to our attention. Please send in a review if you see it. Koji Shirashi also directed CARVED (A Slit-Mouthed Woman).



Source: Nippon Cinema

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Rambo Lunchbox
4:34pm, January 6, 2009

Holy shit.


Chococat
5:04pm, January 6, 2009

hostel? this looks a million times better and brutal than hostel!!! I CANT WAIT!!!


Kaname Tousen
5:22pm, January 6, 2009

They can't even give it a real name they just give it the name "Grotesque"


tszilla
5:26pm, January 6, 2009

Yeah, Grotesque just about covers that. Yikes!


tszilla
5:26pm, January 6, 2009

Yeah, Grotesque just about covers that. Yikes!


Kaname Tousen
5:30pm, January 6, 2009

No no fuck that I wasn't expecting that much gore in the trailer alone!


Dead_Scream
5:32pm, January 6, 2009

Whoa... it's insane that the same country that came up with shit like Hello Kitty also comes up with something like this as well, LMAO.


edanlove20
5:47pm, January 6, 2009

So I am pretty much over excited for this film. Any movie that makes me want to vomit is a good movie in my book :)


Cathedral opf Demoni
6:04pm, January 6, 2009

Makes Rothy-boys "Hostels" look like the Teenager T & A flick that it really is. I like what I see but Japan has delivered a lot of excellant Catagory III violence.


Jacques
6:13pm, January 6, 2009

Cathedral opf Demoni, what movies are you referring to with that lasr sentence? I've never seen a Japanese movie that I thought was genuinely gory at all, and I've seen ALL the "gory" Japanese movies everyone raves about. This doesn't look all that gory, either. The camera will most likely be staring at the wall as gory stuff happens off-screen, as in all Japanese movies. And I don't see why people are so excited about a Hostel rip-off just because it's Japanese. Not to mention, it looks a lot more like something from the Guinea Pig series than Hostel, anyway.


AnthroFred
6:14pm, January 6, 2009

Posted on this a while ago on UHM, looks like a good movie =)


lgoasklucyl
7:21pm, January 6, 2009

Western Cinema has always outdone us on the torture/gore front. Now they're going to show up the hack Eli Roth and out-due him with ease. I might see it. I've never enjoyed anything Roth made, personally, though perhaps they have removed enough of his teeny-date-movie-ness and made a decent flick.


ChrisV
7:44pm, January 6, 2009

Wow, thats a lot of torture... Lets hope they didn't blow their load with the trailer, cuz thats about the goriest promo ive seen in a while. very Hostel looking......


Horror_Luva
8:54pm, January 6, 2009

Now we can't complain about our remakes! This looks like a Japanese remake of Hostel.


twistedbitch
8:54pm, January 6, 2009

The trailer looks great. But I didn't like Hostel. It sucked big time. I was excited seeing the trailer for Hostel. I wonder if this will be the same way??


Jhanse29
9:28pm, January 6, 2009

Not big at all on Japanese horror films but this one I will check out if we see it released to DVD stateside


Jonny Horror
9:42pm, January 6, 2009

Brutal. This looks like they watched HOSTEL, then said, let's take it even further. I would want to see this just to see how far they go.


Mr. Willson
9:54pm, January 6, 2009

Wow! All this hate. How you gonna hate on them for 'ripping off' Hostel when they made it blatantly known the film was inspired by 'Hostel'. Its not like they're trying to take credit. Dunno what movies you were watching Jacques, but I've seen plenty like you and have no idea where you're coming from. I've seen many a buckets o' organs coming from the Pacific. *lol* This makes 'Hostel' look like 'The Waltons'. Looking forward to it. :)


I'LLEATYOURFUCKINGFACE
1:59am, January 7, 2009

oh hells ya


JahSoldier
3:51am, January 7, 2009

I agree partly with Jacques on this. Hostel itself was not all that original, and this feels more like a Guinea Pig movie anyway. I'd suggest The Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police if you want example of some gory Japanese films (not to mentioned the Guinea Pig series.


dub_fierce
4:44am, January 7, 2009

If youve seen Guinea Pig 2, you wouldnt even be mentioning Hostel. :P


ironlung
5:04am, January 7, 2009

the trailer is fucking evil!!!


joe31183
8:52am, January 7, 2009

Looks gross... and totally pointless. Hostel was silly enough, but this is just nasty. Interesting though, that a Japanese movie is copying an American film for once instead of the other way around.


horrorchick81
10:13am, January 7, 2009

WOW!!! awesome!!!!!! this looks hundred times better than hostel! alotmore gorier!!!!


GRUDGE4life
6:58pm, January 8, 2009

the trailer doesnt look that gory...nevertheless this is expected gore from japan where you dont actually see the gore happen, but you use your imagination instead... i still want to see it though.


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