![]() Still, the boys' cockiness only escalates when they meet a few girls who do indeed seem enthralled with them, in particular Natalya (Barbara Nedeljáková) and Svetlana (Jana Kaderabkova). ![]() Here they're forewarned of the mayhem to come when a fellow traveler, an older Dutchman (Jan Vlasák), makes an unwanted pass at Josh. The boys are thrilled to learn from the ultra-skeezy Alex (Lubomir Silhavecky) that a hostel in Slovakia promises even more loose girls and more potent drugs. In Amsterdam, they're amazed by the availability of sex, marijuana, and hash, all of these indulgences featured in graphic imagery. Show moreĪmerican backpackers Paxton (Jay Hernandez) and Josh (Derek Richardson) are traveling with their new friend Oli (Eythor Gudjonsson), each trying hard to impress the others with his capacity for partying. Characters use frequent foul language (over 100 uses of "f-k," derogatory terms like "f-got"). ![]() ![]() Characters smoke, drink, and do multiple sorts of drugs. Characters engage in boisterous sex, and a man makes a homosexual pass at an unwilling young man. These violent scenes are preceded by a sojourn in Amsterdam featuring bare breasts and one frontal nudity shot. One character throws herself in front of a train when she sees her disfigurement following torture. These images are graphic and bloody (severed limbs, penetrated genitals, sliced Achilles tendon, gouged eye, with weapons including scissors, chainsaws, knives, hammers, drills, clippers, guns, cars, and chairs). The premise and primary "plot" is torture - specifically, the torture of young travelers by wealthy adults who pay thousands of dollars for the experience. Like so, it doesn't stand above the rest of the lot.Parents need to know that Hostel is a 2006 horror movie in which a pair of American college guys backpacking through Europe in search of sex, drugs, and alcohol find themselves in a gory nightmare of sadistic torture. Hostel could've easily been a subversive take on the genre, criticizing it by showing too much nastiness, even by horror fans standards but also, with a polished plot, make it's good ideas work much better and making it's message come across. The material is there, but it's not handled well. Fortunently, it drops some very dark and twisted humor after the nastiness is introduced that saves the movie to some extent. The ambiance is well handled and the desperation palpable but we can't really connect too well with these characters all that much. The torture scenes work for some extent, because they are tense and leave some to your imagination. Come on, this is a typical old school video nasty flick, brought to modern audiences with all the best tool availables (Greg Nicotero anyone?), then why the hell have you backed of on the gore so much? Horror fans have flocked to see this one given the awesome promotion it had, sick and twisted posters and frightening premise but all that has kinda been thrown out of the window. It's just a shame that the script and dialogues are so poor and drag on for too long. That knowledge helped a lot on the inception of Hostel: the premise is original, having a bunch of pricks as protagonists was spot-on, treating Europe as a shady place is somewhat questionable but the beating on american culture and consumerism pays of later on. It's knowledge on the genre is undeniable but as craftsman he still leaves a lot to be desirable.
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