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Release Date:
6 January 2006 (USA)
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Tagline:
Welcome To Your Worst Nightmare more
Plot:
Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them. full summary | full synopsis
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Europe
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Bratislava
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Backpacker
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Friend
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Awards:
4 wins
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5 nominations
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(218 articles)
Disney's 'Prep & Landing' - Clip from the ABC show.
(From Movie Jungle. 27 November 2009, 4:20 AM, PST)
Terrifyingly Gnarly # 19 - Teenage Filmmaker Jd Lifshitz Gets Killed On The 4th Of July
(From Fangoria. 26 November 2009, 2:34 PM, PST)
(From Movie Jungle. 27 November 2009, 4:20 AM, PST)
Terrifyingly Gnarly # 19 - Teenage Filmmaker Jd Lifshitz Gets Killed On The 4th Of July
(From Fangoria. 26 November 2009, 2:34 PM, PST)
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Somewhat stylish, but very trite and predictable!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jay Hernandez | ... | Paxton | |
| Derek Richardson | ... | Josh | |
| Eythor Gudjonsson | ... | Oli | |
| Barbara Nedeljakova | ... | Natalya | |
| Jan Vlasák | ... | The Dutch Businessman | |
| Jana Kaderabkova | ... | Svetlana | |
| Jennifer Lim | ... | Kana | |
| Keiko Seiko | ... | Yuki | |
| Lubomir Bukovy | ... | Alex | |
| Jana Havlickova | ... | Vala | |
| Rick Hoffman | ... | The American Client | |
| Petr Janis | ... | The German Surgeon | |
| Takashi Miike | ... | Miike Takashi | |
| Patrik Zigo | ... | Bubble Gum Gang Leader (as Zigo Patrik) | |
| Milda Jedi Havlas | ... | Desk Clerk Jedi |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
Hostel: Part I (Australia) (DVD title)
Хостел (Russia) [ru]
Hostal (Venezuela) [es]
Hostel (Finland) [fi]
Hostel (Germany) [de]
Hostel (Serbia) [sr]
Hostel (Spain) [es]
Hostel, i arhi tis paranoias (Greece) [el]
L'auberge (Canada: French title) [fr]
O Albergue (Brazil) [pt]
Otel (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
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Хостел (Russia) [ru]
Hostal (Venezuela) [es]
Hostel (Finland) [fi]
Hostel (Germany) [de]
Hostel (Serbia) [sr]
Hostel (Spain) [es]
Hostel, i arhi tis paranoias (Greece) [el]
L'auberge (Canada: French title) [fr]
O Albergue (Brazil) [pt]
Otel (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
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MPAA:
Rated R for brutal scenes of torture and violence, strong sexual content, language and drug use.
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Runtime:
94 min | Philippines:93 min (cut)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:16 |
Canada:18+ (Quebec) |
Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) |
UK:18 |
Netherlands:16 |
New Zealand:R18 |
Germany:18 (nf) |
Australia:R |
Switzerland:18 (canton of Vaud) |
Switzerland:18 (canton of Geneva) |
Singapore:R21 (cut) |
Sweden:15 |
Mexico:D |
Argentina:16 |
Portugal:M/18 |
Brazil:18 |
South Africa:16 |
Philippines:R-18 (MTRCB) |
Belgium:KNT |
Hungary:18 |
Finland:K-18 |
South Korea:18 (re-rating) (cut) |
South Korea:Limited (original rating) |
USA:R (certificate #42205) |
Italy:VM14 |
Germany:Not Rated (SPIO/JK) (extended version) |
France:-16 (with warning) |
Norway:18 (self applied) (with warning) |
Malaysia:18SG (unrated DVD version) |
Malaysia:(Banned) (theatrical) |
Hong Kong:III |
Japan:R-18 |
Italy:VM18 (re-rating) |
Taiwan:R-18
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Trivia:
"The American Businessman" (Rick Hoffman) almost gave himself a concussion and bruised his head with the butt of his gun while filming the scene where he decides how to murder his victim.
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Goofs:
Continuity: When Paxton is handcuffed to the chair and his torturer grabs the three-pronged metal pole, Paxton is shown with bloody hole marks on his shirt. Then it shows the guy holding the rod, then hitting Paxton twice, then the shot goes back to Paxton and the bloody holes are there. The holes were added and filmed before the torturer hit him.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Down to the Bone: Anatomy of a Prequel (2007) (V)
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Soundtrack:
Treti Galaxie
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How did Paxton know that the Dutch Businessman was part of Elite Hunting?What does the non-English dialogue mean?
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The plot, in short: Three backpackers, two Americans and one Icelander, does Europe by train with two major goals: To get high and nail as many women as possible... In Amsterdam they accidentally learn of a hostel in Bratislava, Slovakia where sex-mad women thirst for men in general, and American men i particular. They of course decide to go there and at first it seems the rumors were true. But they soon learn that the hostel is nothing more than a front for a bizarre club, where people can pay a huge fee to get to perform unspeakable acts...
My 2 cents: The director and writer Eli Roths biggest accomplishment before Hostel is Cabin Fever (2002) - weather or not that is something good is a matter of personal judgment. That he got two Evil Dead'ers (Scott Spiegel and FX-genius Gregory Nicotero) interested in his script is not at all surprising. But how he got Quentin Tarantino to executive produce (and thereby act as "posterboy" for his flick) is, to me, a total and utter mystery.
Hostel has potential, I'm not going to take that away from it. The thought that a place exists where rich people pay money to torture and kill other people is interesting. And a story about a kidnapped person who finds himself locked in that very place, waiting for his assassin, should make for a great film! The film is wonderfully lit, specifically in the torture chamber-scenes. And the set-dressing in those scenes are marvelous. It really feels like Roth found these places - and just shot them as the were. But the lighting, set-dressing and potentially-rich story, unfortunately, ends the positive things I have to say about Hostel.
It is frustrating to see a story that could have been so exciting and horrific get so utterly fumbled up! The movie is an hour and a half long, and takes a whopping 50 minutes to get to the place that is supposed to be the scene of terror and creepiness. The nearly hour-long "intro" is spent observing the backpackers while they party, get high and watch naked ladies in Amsterdams Red Light-district. When the story finally starts to focus on whatever is wrong with the Slovakian hostel it points everything out to such an extensive degree that it feels like Roth wants to put a stupid-hat on every member in the audience. I sat, in vain, and waited for him to take the lid off, go "ta-daa!" and show me something intelligent that I had missed. But it never happens and when the lid, towards the end, slowly slides off on its own accord it turns out that the ones you suspected were bad guys were in fact...bad guys. The ones you suspected were dead...were dead. And the entire movie ends the way you suspected it would all along.
Jay Hernandez (Paxton) and Derek Richardson (Josh) doesn't do to shabby in the two leads. But Roth has stayed true to Hollywood formula and chosen picturesque before personality, and the bigger part has unfortunately been given to Hernandez - instead of Richardson who I thought were more likable, and more interesting to watch.
Spanish director Koldo Serra made El tren de la bruja in 2003. A short-film about a man who agrees to partake in an experiment and suddenly finds himself strapped to a chair in a dark room. He hears metal objects being handled and someone pacing back and forth in the room. When the light is turned on it dawns on him that he will probably be tortured to death. Serras short-film is fifteen minutes long. It was filmed in two days and is scary as hell! Hostel is both longer and has, as it first seems, more story to build on. But it still wants to base the horror in exactly the same sort of scenes as Serras short - and fails miserably! Hostel is, probably, made specifically for an American teen-audience, where drugs and naked women represent half of the movies pull. Blood and bodyparts make up the other half. If you watch this and expect anything more sophisticated than some blood and naked breasts you'll be disappointed.