The sets are uniformly impressive-particularly the torture chambers, which are just terrifying to look at. Visually, the film is interesting-alternating young actresses with bodies like strippers with the burnt-out remnants of the Eastern European countryside.
Yes, there is no shortage of squirm-inducing moments in this film, but several of them are powerful simply because we actually fear for the characters we've come to know. There's an actual story at work here, and Roth spends nearly half the film getting his characters into harm's way-making the violent events that unfold in the second half of the film all that much more profound since the audience has come to identify with the victims. It's disappointing that a lot of people have been led to believe the film is really nothing more than extended torture sequences-because it's not. While the onscreen carnage isn't on the same level as something like Peter Jackson's Dead Alive, there's no denying that Hostel certainly goes a lot farther than many of the R-rated horror films released in years past. What really sets the film apart is the level of violence on display.
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The script is one part slasher movie and one part The Most Dangerous Game, all filtered through an Eastern European sensibility.
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At its core, Roth's script is very traditional-sex leads to bad things no matter how hot the girls might be, traveling off the beaten path is always a terrible idea no matter how enticing something on the detour sounds, and former Soviet nations now free from Communism but still just as poor as they always were will undertake some really nasty things as ways of making money. Their subsequent investigation into what happened to Oli will reveal the hostel's dark secret-and may well cost the young men their lives. Unfortunately, Oli never makes it back to the hostel-he sends a message saying he's gone back to his home in Iceland-and our two American kids don't buy it.
They hook up with two gorgeous Russian girls (Barbara Nedeljakova and Jana Kaderabkova) and spend the night in a local disco. Sounding too good to pass up, our three heroes board a train and head for the hostel-and when they arrive, it turns out to be everything they expected-and something much more. After an extended stay in Amsterdam (with the requisite visit to a bar where you can smoke pot and the infamous red light district), the guys hear about a Slovakian hostel filled with beautiful women who will fulfill essentially any sexual urge a guy could have. Jay Hernandez (Paxton), Derek Richardson (Josh), and Eythor Gudjonsson (Oli) play three young men backpacking across Europe.
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