{"id":375,"date":"2006-04-19T19:54:01","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T19:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomwire.com\/2006\/04\/19\/hostel-situation\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T22:41:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:41:25","slug":"hostel-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/hostel-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostel Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10568,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.imdb.com\\\/title\\\/tt0450278&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251006033823\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.imdb.com\\\/title\\\/tt0450278\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 16:03:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 16:03:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I must aplogise again for neglecting to post as often as I\u2019d like \u2013 events over the past half year have taken their tol on my time and energy, not leaving as much as I\u2019d like for this. However, life goes on even if it\u2019s coloured in a slightly different shade! I\u2019ve now rolled-on to a new project at work doing some infrastructure and DBA work so it\u2019s <em>\u201cgoodbye SharePoint, hello Oracle\u201d<\/em> etc. Looks like a good opportunity to learn some new stuff but of course nothing is without a steep understanding curve!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" class=\"wp-image-376\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hostel.jpg\" alt=\"Hostel\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>For whatever reason over the past few months there seem to have been a secession of unrelenting \u2018survival horror\u2019 films \u2013 i.e. films about people escaping from terrifying situations (mutant cannibals, Eastern Europeans and the like!). Recently I saw the ultra-violent \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0450278\/\">Hostel<\/a>\u2018 which I would imagine has single-handedly killed the tourism industry of Slovakia (no pun intended!). The film depicts a backpacking holiday gone badly wrong. The events that follow push back the barriers of what has ever been shown in mainstream cinema but I\u2019m not sure if this is a good or bad thing\u2026 do these films desensitise us to the real world? Personally no. I find I can just about watch this stuff (with my eyes half shut) as I know its all fake but when it comes to real violence of a graphic nature I really can\u2019t stand it!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must aplogise again for neglecting to post as often as I\u2019d like \u2013 events over the past half year have taken their tol on my time and energy, not leaving as much as I\u2019d like for this. However, life goes on even if it\u2019s coloured in a slightly different shade! I\u2019ve now rolled-on to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[1491,520],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-horror","tag-reviews"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":72,"url":"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/the-eye-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":375,"position":0},"title":"The Eye 2","author":"David","date":"8th June 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Just watched the much anticipated film 'The Eye 2', although the original was great this bears about as much resemblance to it as Russell's paradox does to a runaway train (hows that for a Tuesday evening!). 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Taken at face value it sounds\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Film&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Film","link":"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/film\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ringu1.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":29,"url":"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/uzumaki\/","url_meta":{"origin":375,"position":4},"title":"Uzumaki","author":"David","date":"5th February 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"When it comes to strange films I think I've just about found the strangest and yes, its Japanese, and no this isn't a case of cultural differences - this one is just plane weird, but at the same time totally cool! This film is Uzumaki. 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