|
 HOSTEL
With
Jay
Hernandez,
Derek
Richardson,
Eythor
Gudjonsson,
Barbara
Nedeljakova,
Jan
Vlasák,
Petr
Janis,
Takashi
Miike,
Patrik
Zigo
Directed
by
Eli
Roth
In
the
midst
of
the
mid-2000
torture
horror
flood,
Cabin
Fever
director
Eli
Roth’s
second
feature
Hostel
stood
out
from
the
rest.
It
actually
had
a
bit
of
social
commentary
hidden
in
the
gratuitous
terrorizing
and
murder
of
American
backpackers.
Could
it
even
be
seen
as
a
metaphor
for
terrorist
attacks
on
America
and
the
country
as
a
whole?
A
bunch
of
young
carefree
friends
hit
Europe
for
a
spot
of
hedonism
and
exploitation
–
be
it
sex
with
women
or
getting
wasted
on
booze
and
drugs.
While
on
their
whirlwind
trip
of
excess
in
Amsterdam
they
get
wind
of
a
place
in
Slovakia
where
absolutely
anything
goes.
The
hostel
they
check
into
is
in
fact
a
base
where
young
tourists
get
picked
out
to
be
tortured
and
killed
in
whichever
way
the
high
paying
“customers”
feel
fit
-
the
exploiters
becoming
the
exploited
in
the
worst
possible
way.
Victims
are
taken
to
a
dilapidated
factory
where
they
are
locked
in
rooms
with
their
respective
tormentors.
It
is
run
in
the
same
fashion
as
any
industry
(albeit
heavily
guarded),
in
this
case
victims
and
killers
moving
through
like
a
slaughterhouse.
Dark,
sadistic
and
bloody
with
some
visceral
special
FX,
Hostel
is
nothing
new,
but
will
no
doubt
spawn
a
load
of
sub-par
imitations
with
very
little
point
except
the
ripping
apart
of
bodies
and
ear
piercing
screams.
Granted,
Horror
themes
from
ghost
stories
and
madmen,
to
monsters,
Japanese
remakes
and
real
life
fear
&
terror
subjects
(like
this)
has
been
explored
in
every
shape
and
form.
In
the
future
all
we
can
do
is
hope
for
a
fresh
approach.
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