When I saw the movie at the flea market for a buck, I said, "What the heck, it's Tarantino." I had trouble following the movie due to a lack of confusing flashbacks (It's a joke.)Three guys are touring Europe doing guy things. They meet a man who tells them about a Hostel in a small isolated town in Eastern Europe where there is an overabundance of pretty women who have nothing better to do than to throw themselves at anyone with a foreign accent, and they love all Americans. When they get there (note "Pulp Fiction" on TV) it is true. Women who look like models unashamedly share sleeping quarters with men, give them drugs and have sex with them.One by one the men disappear (as do the Japanese girls) and are tortured to death, aka "Blood Sucking Freaks". Paxton (Jay Hernandez) the last of the trio demands to know where his friends are... The slaughterhouse was filmed at an actual mental hospital in Prague.Sex, nudity, f-bomb, torture.

Hostel stars: Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Eythor Gudjonsson and Barbara Nedeljakova, including Jana Kaderakova and Jan Vlasak. It was directed and written by Eli Roth, the director of Inglorious Bastards, Knock Knock, Clown and also the sequel, Hostel Part: II. Hostel is very strong and graphic in all ways possible. The idea of it is amazing, but something must've went wrong during production, because the turnout of the film in the end is completely terrible. It's a flush the DVD down your toilet type of horror film. I'm shocked that the studios and the production companies decided to go through with making this movie. It's a shame that they produced the wrong horror film when another amazing one could've been made instead of this trashheaped garbage. The horror factor is nothing scary or creepy, only blood and guts. Body parts being torn and the film is mainly pure torture. Nothing to get excited about or want to see again, and again and again. So on and so forth this movie should be banned from all stores that sell DVDs and on the internet. Sites like Amazon should not have this movie in stock. The fact that this movie reminds me of human trafficking is somewhat interesting, because it does happen in real life. Having said that, there's nothing else in this movie that makes it worth a second viewing or even to watch it on Halloween. It's a load of crap with terrible dialogue and way to graphically over the top extreme violence with gore. Featuring tones of cuss words, which horror films can do without or very little of. If you own this movie, throw it out. Just know that this film is the kind that is banned in certain countries. I wish that it was never made. Eli Roth should be ashamed of himself. We want new horror that's good and creative, not the same old junk that has been coming out what seems like every year or so. Since he went to film school, I wonder at times if he really paid attention on how to make great films, or if he was just in a rush to get into the industry. If I knew what I know now, I would've never watched this film in the first place. I'm glade that I saw this piece of junk for free. It's in my Grandma's movie collection. Otherwise, I wouldn't have even paid a penny to see this. We need better horror films than this, we need scary and creepy, not gore, swearing and all of this graphic nudity and sex scenes they put in now a days. That distracts the viewers and they can't really concentrate on the storyline with nudity and sex every ten to fifteen minutes within the film. It's not worth anything. Save your money for a great film that will wow you. This film will just make horror fans feel dumb that they got tricked out of their money and want to smack themselves in the face.Overall it's a thumbs down.2 and 1/2 stars.

This Eli Roth movie is pretty straight forward in terms of horror and gorefest movies go, so don't expect to be blown away by anything remotely revolutionary.The storyline was predictable, but still have enough gore and gruesomeness to make it watchable.Granted that the movie was predictable and generic, then it was well worth sitting through it to watch the gruesome torture scenes and the inventive ways that writer and director Eli Roth came up with ways of how to inflict bodily harm and pain upon people. With scenes such as these, then it is a make or break whether or not the scenes are believable and can make the audience cringe. Eli Roth is certainly good at making the audience cringe.The characters in the movie were actually quite nicely fleshed out, pardon the pun. More than others, obviously. I will say that Jay Hernandez actually carried the movie quite nicely throughout the entire course of the movie.I remember watching this movie when it was first released, and I was somewhat impressed back in the day. However, after revisiting it now some 13 years later, I am not all that impressed anymore. The movie is still entertaining, but in terms of storyline and plot it was mediocre. It is the grotesque torture that keeps the movie afloat.

I saw this movie a few years ago but it's one of those movies that you can hardly forget. I love horror movies, but I'm more afraid of what is cleverly suggested than with what I see explicitly. So this movie is not the kind of movie I prefer. The action revolves around a group of three North American travelers who are making the traditional backpacking trip to Europe that immense teenagers or pre-university students do. The recipe is the usual: drink, testosterone, little brain and huge desire for sex and light drugs. They go to Slovakia, where they are looking for a hostel, advertised as the ideal place to find all this, but they end up wrapping themselves in a criminal and dangerous web where they are the flies. From here, the film is basically a torture session capable of making the Spanish inquisitors want to take notes in a notepad.We can then understand that the most serious problem of this film is the absence of a credible and well-constructed story behind the horror scenes. The script is built on gore, graphic violence is an end in itself. Another problem, a direct consequence of this, is the poor construction of the characters, who are just stupid teenagers who deserve to die in the film because the public does not care about them. Never mind the names of the actors. There are no sounding names, they would not risk their career in such a movie. They are meat to the slaughter. Eli Roth, the director / screenwriter, must have a distorted conception of what horror movies are but, in any case, the film has a specific audience and Roth was entirely capable of meeting their expectations. Special and visual effects are a fundamental part of the most soulless scenes and were done with great attention to detail.This is a movie inappropriate for popcorn, as I say, for joke. It is sadistic and shocking, arresting public attention for explicit violence. It is not a movie that is suitable for most people. They would think it is too visual, too disgusting to bear. But fans of gore and pure and tough violence will love it.