Hostel
Slovak city is visited by three backpackers for their self-indulgent adventure, what they don’t know that things are not what they seem from the outside.
2 November 1986, Stockholm, Sweden
18 May 1984, Czech Republic
12 June 1970, New York City, New York, USA
16 January 1972, UK
9 November 1959, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
1983, Osaka, Japan
20 January 1985, Czechoslovakia
18 March 1976, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK
18 April 1972, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
27 December 1978, Czech Republic
16 May 1979, Banska Bystrica, Czechoslovakia [now Slovak Republic]
July 03, 2008
Roth is able to change the focus from frolicking raunchiness to extreme chilliness in a way that's quite sobering.
August 03, 2007
A stern moralistic rebuke to ugly-Americanism. The movie is in-your-face but not pointlessly so.
July 10, 2007
This is routine Roth as usual. Homophobia, attempted nihilism, vapid writing, paper thin plot, and nonsensical all the way...
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.
January 14, 2006
All this in a 94-minute movie that takes 45 minutes getting started!
August 28, 2015
This is a grim, gory, and unapologetically grungy piece of "survival horror." I dug it.
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.
November 27, 2006
Hostel's merely unpleasant and more than a little dumb.
August 30, 2009
A series of interesting ideas floating around a sea of blood
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.
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.
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.
