Hostel (2006)
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Reviews Counted: 103
Fresh: 62 | Rotten: 41
Featuring lots of guts and gore, Hostel is a wildly entertaining corpse-filled journey -- assuming one is entertained by corpses, guts, and gore, that is.
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 11
Featuring lots of guts and gore, Hostel is a wildly entertaining corpse-filled journey -- assuming one is entertained by corpses, guts, and gore, that is.
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Cabin Fever director Eli Roth skips the humor of his freshman feature and goes straight for the jugular in this unrelenting scare-fest about a pair of libidinous American backpackers seeking cheap thrills in the European countryside. Their carefree college days close behind and the responsibility of the real world looming ever closer on the horizon, Josh (Derek Richardson) and Paxton (Jay Hernandez) strap on their backpacks and prepare for a stratospheric last hurrah of booze, babes, drugs, and
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Jay Hernandez
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Derek Richardson
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Jan Vlasák
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Barbara Nedeljakova
Natalya -
Jana Kaderabkova
Svetlana -
Jennifer Lim
Kana -
Rick Hoffman
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Miroslav Táborský
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Takashi Miike
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Mark Taylor
Brucey -
Martin Kubacak
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Paula Wild
Monique -
Roman Janecka
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Petr Janis
The German Surgeon -
Milda Havlas
Desk Clerk Jedi -
Dan Frisch
Fanny Pack Man -
Philip Waley
Alfie -
Keiko Seiko
Yuki -
Lubomir Bukovy
Alex -
Jana Havlickova
Vala -
Zigo Patrik
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Vladimir Silhavecky
Yuri -
Barbora Oboznenkova
Disco Girl -
Radomil Uhlir
The Stoned Manager -
Jan Spanbauer
Jacket Man -
Mirek Navratil
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Vanessa Jungova
Saskia -
Katerina Vomelova
Dominique -
Lubos Vinicky
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Petr Sadlacek
The Toothless Cab Drive... -
Drahoslav Herzan
Bob -
Daniela Bakerova
Older Woman -
Martina Kralickova
Pretty Woman -
Ota Filip
Muttonchop -
Jakub Habarta
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Nick Roe
Stan -
Natali Tothova
Natalya Shemp -
Petra Kubesova
Svetlana Shemp -
Lord David Baxa
Museum Tortury Guard -
Miroslav Hanus
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Christopher Allen Nelson
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Josef Bradna
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Gabriel Roth
Sir Robert Wappus
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All Critics (113) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (70) | Rotten (42) | DVD (28)
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.
Top CriticSadly, as with [director Eli] Roth's promising but flawed debut feature, its central conceit is more compelling than what ended up on screen.
All this in a 94-minute movie that takes 45 minutes getting started!
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.
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.
The tone is too schizophrenic for the movie to be great, but writer/director Eli Roth is showing serious potential.
A series of interesting ideas floating around a sea of blood
Extremely brutal and graphic; not for kids or the faint of heart.
Roth is able to change the focus from frolicking raunchiness to extreme chilliness in a way that's quite sobering.
actually makes an intriguing point about the nature of pleasure for its own sake and the constant desire to increase sensory intake
The four full audio commentaries in this package might sound like overkill, but with Roth in charge, there is surprisingly little repetition.
A stern moralistic rebuke to ugly-Americanism. The movie is in-your-face but not pointlessly so.
This is routine Roth as usual. Homophobia, attempted nihilism, vapid writing, paper thin plot, and nonsensical all the way...
Roth proves unable to control the tone of his premise, in the end pandering too much to the male adolescent audience that he at first seems to be satirising.
You are unlikely to find another contemporary American horror movie with as much intensity and style as this one.
Director Eli Roth likes to talk about his film, so there are no fewer than four full-length audio commentaries, each including Roth.
The skill with which Eli Roth has constructed his film, especially its first 40 minutes, leads me to give it the benefit of the doubt. It's creepy, gripping, horrifying stuff.
While there are some cheap thrills to be had here, much of the movie is profoundly boring.
Audience Reviews for Hostel
Super Reviewer
Horror director Eli Roth has always had a terrific visual style and understands the elements of making good horror movies but i've always had mixed feelings about him because he never manages to completely pull it off. Firstly I think he's talented because he has a terrific directorial style and evidently he's a completely dedicated film maker. Although I didn't like the film much he demonstrated he had talent with Cabin Fever but the film wasn't quite up to scratch, Hostel suffers from similar problems. The first 50 minutes offers nothing more than tongue in cheek humour and sex which at times work but also feels somewhat like a filler for what has yet to come. When it does come it's fantastic, the last 40 minutes of Hostel is rightfully disturbing and gut churningly sick with plenty of blood, gore and corpses. It doesn't come across as dumb like most films of the genre, in ways this corrects what was wrong with Cabin Fever but Hostel unfortunately lacks what was good about Cabin Fever. It had substance and characters you cared about. It's not scary in the slightest and at best the film works as a throw away gorefest but it's nothing more than that. But since I still believe Roth may do better with the first sequel i'm up for seeing Hostel's Part 2 and 3 because maybe they turned out to be an improvement. Doubting that they will have any more substance than this, maybe they'll at least get to the gore quicker with a setup that doesn't take half the film's running time.
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- Josh: Look at those factories.
- The Scarred Cab Driver: What? There? There we make plastic for Slovakya.
- Paxton: Is that so?
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- Natalya: I get a lot of money for you. And that make you my bitch.
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- Natalya: You are so serious. MR. SERIOUS AMERICAN.
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- The Scarred Cab Driver: There we make plastic for Slovakia.
- Paxton: Don't fuck us.
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- Oli: I am the king of the swing!
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- The Dutch Businessman: [to Josh] You should do what is better for you.
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