Hostel

Two adventurous American college buddies, Paxton and Josh, backpack through Europe eager to make quintessentially hazy travel memories with new friend Oli, an Icelander they’ve met along the way. Paxton and Josh are eventually 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.

To be honest, I had a hard time getting through this movie. The violence and gore in this movie is so graphic to reduce this movie's appeal to only a niche market. While the story is well layed out and terrifying, the images and sequences in this film will cause you to remember little else. Basically the first 1/3 of the movie fancies itself a porn movie and the last 2/3 of the movie fancies itself a snuff film.

Gratuituious violence, stomach-turning gore, graphic nudity, and explicit sexual situations makes one wonder if the MPAA actually sat through this movie as this movie is well deserving of a NC-17 rating.

As I've stated before, I don't rate based on the level of violence, gore, nudity or sex in a movie UNLESS it takes away from the movie. This is one of those movies. If your idea of a good time is watching Faces of Death videos when you aren't torturing neighborhood dogs, this is your type of movie. However, if you don't enjoy seeing the mutulation and torture of helpless victims displayed it graphic detail, stay far away from Hostel.

1.0 out of 5