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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.
20 January 1985, Czechoslovakia
3 June 1957, Prague, Czech Republic
15 January 1982, Prague, Czechoslovakia
12 March 1984, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
2 November 1986, Stockholm, Sweden
July 10, 2007
This is routine Roth as usual. Homophobia, attempted nihilism, vapid writing, paper thin plot, and nonsensical all the way...
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.
January 14, 2006
All this in a 94-minute movie that takes 45 minutes getting started!
August 03, 2007
A stern moralistic rebuke to ugly-Americanism. The movie is in-your-face but not pointlessly so.
August 30, 2009
A series of interesting ideas floating around a sea of blood
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.
November 27, 2006
Hostel's merely unpleasant and more than a little dumb.
July 03, 2008
Roth is able to change the focus from frolicking raunchiness to extreme chilliness in a way that's quite sobering.
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 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.
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.
August 28, 2015
This is a grim, gory, and unapologetically grungy piece of "survival horror." I dug it.