The trailer for Hostel III clearly depicts the conventional scenes familiar to Hostel fans of utter terror and pain. The audience for Hostel have to be tolerant of gut wrenching, graphic scenes of torture. I think the scenes in the trailer more than jusify the films classification in the Horror genre.
As for the the production value, the trailer shows more high tech equipment, weapons and facility being used, as apposed to the primitive, "dungeon" setting used in the previous 2. In the film the buisness that has been made of the controlled torture of kidnapped teenagers, has grown to the point of people being killed in front of an audience. People watching the film therefore will enjoy the added hopeless despair of the victims, and also the new range of killing techniques that seem to be implemented. Further audiences may be attracted to the introduction of the american gambling and party scene, if they are planning a holiday to locations similar to this, i will naturally add to the fear factor because although you know it's only a film theres always a slight doubt it your mind that it couldnt possibly happen.
Through the trailer, at regular intervals, inter-titles appear on the screen such as 'The unlucky have no chance', these introduce the storyline, but since there is no voice over, the main charcters are not clearly introduced. The music fits well, with it reaching loud, powerful climaxes when someone is hurt. It changes half way through at the interchange of the casino and 'the house' from being party music to being more mystical and intimidating.
There doesnt appear to be a clear narrative structure either, as far as the viewer can work out, one minute the people are in a casino, the next they are being tortured in horrific ways. It is possible that the film producers decided to abandon a complex story line in favour of pure gore factor.
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