Parents Guide for
Hostel (2005) More at IMDbPro »

Note: The number at the beginning of each section refers to how explicit that aspect of the film is on a scale of 1-10. The fraction at the end of the Frightening/Intense Scenes category is the total sum of all the sections out of the highest sum possible (50) and therefore an approximation of how much explicit content of any kind is in the film

10/10

A man and a woman have sex in bed: the woman thrusts on top of the man (her bare breasts and the side of her buttocks are visible and his bare chest is visible), he caresses her breasts, and four young men who are in the same room watch them.

Two young men with two young women have sex in separate beds, in the same room. The men are both bare-chested but have pants on, both women are topless, one with pants still on, the other in a thong revealing the cheeks but not crack of her buttocks.

A man thrusts with a young woman in a restroom stall (her bare breasts are visible); he photographs his actions on his telephone and sends it to his friends.

Young men walk past windows where scantily clad women pose and invite them inside: when they go in we see silhouettes and hear people having sex in different rooms, and a young man opens one door when he hears someone who is apparently in pain and finds two people having S&M sex (we see a woman on top of someone who is strapped down, and she wears leather straps and her bare breasts and buttocks are visible); a man and a young man go into the room to watch.

Three young men and two young women sit in a spa together (the men have towels around their waists and the women are fully nude, revealing their breasts and pubic region, and one of them have the side of their buttocks visible); they talk, and one man opens his towel to show another man his genitals after talking about having shaved a part of his body. Two nude young women dress as three young men enter the room (bare breasts and buttocks are visible); two nude young women dress in a room as one young man enters the room (bare breasts and buttocks are visible).

A man watches porn on TV: we see two nude women (bare breasts are visible) kiss another woman. A young man goes into a room in a brothel, a woman in the room invites him in, she removes her bra revealing her bare breasts, and her bare buttocks are visible through a thong (they do not have sex)

A young man shows other people photographs of fully nude women (their breasts and pubic region visible), and a few show him in sexual positions with them. A young man takes a picture of a man's bare buttocks with a face drawn on it. A young man in boxer shorts

is chained to a chair and we see his bare chest and legs (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details). A man touches a young man's knee, the young man yells at the man, and he leaves. A young man tells another young man to have sex with a man.

A young man and a young woman dance and kiss. Young men and young women dance together in several nightclub scenes.

Young men talk about finding women and having sex with them.

10/10

The film's focus shifts from sex to violence for the final thirty to forty minutes, and it does so in particularly bloody fashion. There are graphic depictions of torture and murder.

A man gets two of his fingers cut off by a knife

Another man also gets two fingers cut off, only this is by a chainsaw

A guy is shot in the head

Alot of dismembered bodies shown

A guys achilles tendrones get cut over, and he breaks his neck.

An Asian girl is tortured and paxton cuts the eye out (its hanging outside of her head) and yellow goo flows out

A girl gets splattered underneath a train

3 people gets splattered underneath a car

10/10

103 "fucks", 82 "bitches", 38 "asses", 19 "shits", 8 "mother fuckers", 3 "craps"

Several other profanities such as:

"Suck my dick, bitch" "Eat shit, asshole!"

UNRATED VERSION: 139 F-words, 26 S-words, 8 bitches, 7 uses of Pu*sy, 7 asses, 3 hells, 3 damns, and one use of c*ck.

10/10

There lots of scenes that include marijuana use and drinking throughout the film.

10/10

As mentioned above, the violence and gore are plentiful. If these are things you find frightening, this movie is NOT for you.

An idea of how accurate the TECE (below) is: 5-10 is a little-kid suitable, G-Rated type of film (i.e. Care Bears, Sleeping Beauty); 10-15 is going to be a little harsher, but not by much (i.e. The Incredibles); 15-20 is more like an average PG à PG-13 rated film (i.e. Indiana Jones), 20-25 is going to pretty high up there (i.e. The Dark Knight); 25-30 is quite harsh, but nothing too high or disturbing (i.e. Braveheart); 30-40 is pretty harsh and probably rated R (i.e. Saw), films over 40 are maximised in all categories and so are only suitable for anyone over 17 (i.e. THIS)

50/50