World Famous Comics: Hostel (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Hostel (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Eythor Gudjonsson, Barbara Nedeljakova, Jan Vlasák Directed By: Eli Roth Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Lions Gate Films Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 99 Release Date: April 18, 2006 Running Time: 94 minutes Theatrical Release Date: January 06, 2006
Product Description: Presented by genre master Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2) and directed by Eli Roth (Cabin Fever) Hostel is a shocking and relentless film in the tradition of Saw about two American backpackers (Jay Hernandez Friday Night Lights and Derek Richardson Dumb and Dumberer) in Europe who find themselves lured in as victims of a murder-for-profit business.Paxton and Josh two college friends are lured by a fellow traveler to what's described as a nirvana for American backpackers a particular hostel in an out-of-the-way Slovakian town stocked with Eastern European women as desperate as they are gorgeous. The two friends arrive and soon easily pair off with exotic beauties Natalya and Svetlana. In fact too easily...Initially distracted by the good time they're having the two Americans quickly find themselves trapped in an increasingly sinister situation that they will discover is as wide and as deep as the darkest sickest recess of human nature itself if they survive.System Requirements:Run Time: 94 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS Rating: UNRATED UPC: 043396138384 Manufacturer No: 13838
Amazon.com: Well-made for the genre--the excessive-skin-displayed-before-gruesome-bloody-torture-begins genre--Hostel follows two randy Americans (Jay Hernandez, Friday Night Lights, and Derek Richardson, Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd) and an even randier Icelander (Eythor Gudjonsson) as they trek to Slovakia, where they're told beautiful girls will have sex with anyone with an American accent. Unfortunately, the girls will also sell young Americans to a company that offers victims to anyone who will pay to torture and murder. To his credit, writer/director Eli Roth (Cabin Fever) takes his time setting things up, laying a realistic foundation that makes the inevitable spilling of much blood all the more gruesome. The sardonic joke, of course, is that Americans are worth the most in this brothel of blood because everyone else in the world wants to take revenge upon them. This dark humor and political subtext help set Hostel above its more brainless sadistic compatriots, like House of Wax or The Devil's Rejects. In general, though, there's something lacking; horror used to suggest some threat to the spirit--today's horror can conceive of nothing more troubling than torturing the flesh. For aficionados, Hostel features a nice cameo by Takashi Miike, director of bloody Japanese flicks like Audition and Ichi the Killer. --Bret Fetzer
This Movie Doesn't Cut It I love horror movies and books and this movie did not cut it. I felt like the movie was a joke. It was not scary to me and it seemed ridiculous. The premise is a club where you pay to hunt, torture and kill people. It is just slice and dice `em with the bare bones of a plot with some sex and violence thrown in. It should appeal to teenage boys, but I am not sure who else.
2.5 stars out of 4 The Bottom Line:
Oh sure, Hostel is horrifying enough, and some of its commentary on Americans in Europe is a bit interesting (notice who's the only person we see killing someone else on screen) but anyone with a couple million lying around can make something repulsive: a good horror movie relies on the director's craft rather than gore, and this one is all about the gore.
Granny Says: "Hot Chicks Only Lead To Cold Steel!" HOSTEL, like AUDITION, BROKEN, HIGH TENSION, etc., is best seen knowing nothing about it. Eli Roth has made a viciously tricky classic here. Unlike in his earlier CABIN FEVER, the main characters (Jay Hernandez and Derek Richardson) are likeable guys. They're unaware of the fact that their idea of fun- smoking as much pot, drinking as much alcohol, and nailing as many hot babes as humanly possible- is actually exploitive, and could even be dangerous. They are just young, hormonally explosive college kids, out for the experience of a lifetime. This is also their undoing, as they are oblivious to any hint of impending doom. Even after their buddy Oli disappears, they still return to the nightlfe and the two gals they've hooked up with. Hell has to literally open up in their faces before these guys realize they're in deep, deep trouble. HOSTEL is part horror / cautionary tale, part sadistic blast of jet-black humor, and part geo-political commentary. Roth builds the story slowly (they used to call this character development), revealing the true terror in one big switch, like waking up in a bloody nightmare, while suffering from the world's worst hangover! Yes, HOSTEL can be a gruesome, bleak affair, but it is probably not as gory or twisted as rumor has made it out to be. There is a certain morality buried under the bodies and viscera as well. That's another difference between HOSTEL and CABIN FEVER. HOSTEL hits you in the head and gut w/ a hammer for a reason, not simply to shock you and make you sick...
Could have been so much more. I was pretty hyped for this movie since I enjoyed Saw so much and my friends talked about how awesome and similar this movie was. I was really let down. This is not a horror movie, it's a badly made stoner movie gone horribly, horribly wrong. Over half of the movie is just about some stoners trying to score some European hotties. If they had the time working on developing the characters and making you care for them, the movie would ahve been much more horrifying. The so-called "horror" segment of the movie comes along finally. It's not really scary at all, but it's entertaining at the very least. Some of the scenes are extraordinarily gruesome. The very last scene involving some kids playing their own special version of soccer was actually very funny, but I don't know if it was supposed to be. If they didn't spend so much time during the movie doing such a terrible background story, this could have beena very excellent horrormovie, but as it stands now it's simply passable.
Diana Very graphic and not for the light of heart. One of the best scary movies I've ever seen.
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