Hostel
Three backpackers travel to Slovak city for pleasure seeking adventure without any clue what hardships they will face.
18 March 1976, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK
13 August 1946, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia [now Slovak Republic]
18 April 1972, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
18 January 1976, Queensbury, New York, USA
15 January 1982, Prague, Czechoslovakia
8 May 1976, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
9 November 1959, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
23 May 1963, Prague, Czechslovakia [now Czech Republic]
4 January 1984, Czech Republic
1980, London, England, UK
August 30, 2009
A series of interesting ideas floating around a sea of blood
November 27, 2006
Hostel's merely unpleasant and more than a little dumb.
January 10, 2006
The film is too casually misanthropic and enamored of its expulsive prosthetic virtuosity to be politically relevant, and it's not clear what response -- shame? outrage? titillation? -- Roth is after.
July 03, 2008
Roth is able to change the focus from frolicking raunchiness to extreme chilliness in a way that's quite sobering.
August 28, 2015
This is a grim, gory, and unapologetically grungy piece of "survival horror." I dug it.
December 29, 2006
Whether or not this kind of horror movie is your cup of tea, you have to at least admire Roth for the daring and creativity with which he illustrates that concept.
June 24, 2006
Sadly, as with [director Eli] Roth's promising but flawed debut feature, its central conceit is more compelling than what ended up on screen.
October 25, 2013
Whereas most modern slasher films cut straight to the flesh-ripping for no purpose of art or psychological stimulation, Hostel marries them with skillful execution and, somehow, a relevant subtext.
July 10, 2007
This is routine Roth as usual. Homophobia, attempted nihilism, vapid writing, paper thin plot, and nonsensical all the way...
January 13, 2006
Although I spent much of the second half staring into my lap while listening to a cacophony of screams and shop tools, I processed enough of the first to appreciate Roth's sinister evocation of a Slovakian provincial town.
August 03, 2007
A stern moralistic rebuke to ugly-Americanism. The movie is in-your-face but not pointlessly so.
January 14, 2006
All this in a 94-minute movie that takes 45 minutes getting started!
