 Director :
Eli Roth
Starring : Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Eythor Gudjonsson
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The plot of Hostel
Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
Hostel Review
Review by JOHN ANDERSON:
With a style as high as its body count -- plus the imprimatur of gore connoisseur and presenting entity Quentin TarantinoQuentin Tarantino -- "Hostel" may become something of a classic among Fangoria magazine's readership, acolytes of George Romero and audiences who thought "Saw II" was for babies. Translation to the small screen will be all but impossible given the rain of corpuscles, but theatrical and DVD should spur a moderate downpour. And the aptly termed "director's cut" is all but inevitable.One of the better looking horror films of recent vintage, "Hostel," which showed as a work in progress as a midnighter at the Toronto Film Festival, begins as a dream and turns into a nightmare. Two college pals -- Josh (Derek Richardson) and Paxton (Jay HernandezJay Hernandez) -- are backpacking across Europe with an Icelander, Oli (Eythor Gudjonsson), whom they met en route, and pull into Amsterdam for a siege of epic drinking, pot smoking and, hopefully, sex. While there, they are told they should travel to Bratislava, where the Slovakian women are crazy about foreigners, especially Americans. They're just not told how crazy.Writer-director Eli RothEli Roth's previous entry in the horror genre, "Cabin Fever," was about young sex-crazed vacationers attacked by a flesh-eating virus. While never quite sure whether or not it was a parody of itself, "Cabin Fever""Cabin Fever" had a refreshing degree of unhinged gruesomeness. Likewise, "Hostel."Roth apparently based his film on a story about a Thai Internet business through which, for $10,000, one could kill another human being (the victims being so impoverished they were willing to die for their heirs). Review By Tim Knight:
2006 gets off to a gruesome start with Hostel, Eli Roth's blood-splattered follow-up to his 2003 sleeper hit, Cabin Fever. Heavy on the gore but light on bona-fide scares, this reasonably well-directed piece of schlock is yet another horror flick about sadists preying upon clueless twentysomethings—in this case, three horndog buddies backpacking across Europe. Although Roth has a flair for creating an atmosphere of nightmarish dread, he's far less adept at developing sympathetic characters who talk in anything but "dude-speak." Of course, Hostel's target audience won't care one whit about such failings, once the extremely graphic torture scenes begin. But if explicit bloodletting's not your idea of quality entertainment, this picture will only succeed at turning your stomach. Filmed in the Czech Republic, Hostel stars Jay Hernandez and Derek Richardson as Paxton and Josh, two crass American party boys out for good times and loose women in Europe. With their obnoxious Icelandic friend, Oli (Eythor Gudjonsson), in tow, they hop a train for remote Slovakia, where they'll supposedly find a hostel filled with wanton, East European beauties "hot" for Americans. And sure enough, Paxton and Josh hook up with Natalya (Barbara Nedeljakova) and Svetlana (Jana Kaderabkova) within minutes of arriving. But, as all three backpackers quickly discover, there's a horrific price to pay for staying in this hostel, where many check in, but few ever leave. |
