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| Hostel | |
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| Directed by | Eli Roth |
| Produced by | Eli Roth Quentin Tarantino Boaz Yakin |
| Written by | Eli Roth |
| Starring | Jay Hernandez Derek Richardson |
| Music by | Nathan Barr |
| Cinematography | Milan Chadima |
| Editing by | George Folsey Jr. |
| Distributed by | Lionsgate |
| Release date(s) | January 6, 2006 |
| Running time | 94 min. |
| Country | 
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| Language | English Czech example German example Icelandic example Japanese examp. Dutch example Russian example Slovak example Spanish example (example help) |
| Budget | $4.5 million |
| Gross revenue | $80,578,934 |
| Followed by | Hostel: Part II |
| Official website | |
| All Movie Guide profile | |
| IMDb profile | |
Hostel is a 2005 horror film written and directed by Eli Roth, starring Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Jennifer Lim, Eythor Gudjonsson and Barbara Nedeljáková. The movie is rated "R" in the United States for its infamous scenes of torture and violence, strong sexual content, language, and drug use. Due to the graphic nature of this film, its showing has been restricted in certain countries, primarily those with strict censorship policies. The sequel, Hostel: Part II, was released on June 8, 2007.
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In Amsterdam, backpackers Paxton (Jay Hernandez), Josh (Derek Richardson) and Icelandic Óli (Eyþór Guðjónsson) meet Alexei (Lubomir Bukovy), a Russian man who tells them about a Slovak hostel filled with American-loving, promiscuous women. The backpackers board a train to Slovakia, where they meet a Dutch businessman (Jan Vlasák) long enough to be unnerved by his bizarre behavior. Upon arriving in the small village, the backpackers check into the local hostel and find themselves sharing a room with Natalya (Barbara Nedeljáková) and Svetlana (Jana Kadeřábková), two attractive, single women who entice the backpackers to a spa and a disco before sleeping with them.
The next morning, Óli is missing. A young Japanese backpacker named Kana (Jennifer Lim) also reports that her friend Yuki (Keiko Seiko) has disappeared. A MMS photo sent from Yuki\'s phone shows Yuki and Óli beneath a smokestack of an abandoned factory, the word Sayonara written beneath it. Paxton and Josh decide to leave Bratislava with Kana the following day. Later that night, while partying with Natalya and Svetlana, Paxton and Josh succumb to the effects of alcohol. Josh stumbles back to the hostel while Paxton passes out in the disco\'s storage room. Hours later, Josh wakes up handcuffed to a chair in a dungeon-like room surrounded by power tools and weapons. The Dutch businessman enters in a leather apron and gloves and begins torturing Josh, explaining his unfulfilled dreams of being a surgeon. Despite Josh\'s pleas for his release, the businessman continues to torture him before finally murdering him.
Across town, Paxton awakens and returns to the hostel to find both Josh and Kana missing. In his room are a different pair of beautiful women inviting him to a spa, eerily similar to Natalya\'s and Svetlana\'s offer from before. When the local police chief (Miroslav Táborský) proves unhelpful, Paxton locates Natalya and Svetlana and demands to be taken to his friends. They drive to a factory on the outskirts of the town where inside, Paxton is ambushed by thugs who drag him past cells filled with other backpackers being tortured by various clients. Paxton is taken to his own cell and restrained to a chair, joined minutes later by a German client (Petr Janiš) who as he begins torturing Paxton, inadvertently saws off Paxton\'s handcuffs along with his index and middle finger before slipping on the blood from Paxton\'s injury onto the floor. Paxton breaks free, shoots the client with a nearby gun and conceals himself in the client\'s outfit before escaping to the upper levels of the factory, where outside he can see police officers conspiring with the factory men. Paxton dresses himself in the clothes of the previous client when he discovers a business card for Elite Hunting, now revealed as a secret, worldwide, murder-for-profit organization. An American businessman (Rick Hoffman) arrives and believing Paxton to be another client, discusses his intended victim and asks Paxton whether to kill her quickly or slowly. Paxton advises administering a quick death, but the American businessman disagrees and decides to resort to torturing, leaving behind a no longer needed firearm before exiting. Paxton steals the firearm and escapes to the courtyard when he hears a woman scream. Unable to ignore it, he returns to the factory and kills the American, now in the middle of burning Kana\'s face with a blowtorch.
Paxton and Kana flee the factory in a stolen car and drive to the railway station, now filled with waiting policemen and factory guards. Kana, who notices the disfigured reflection of her missing eye, is unable to live with her hideous scars and throws herself into the path of an incoming train, distracting the guards and allowing Paxton to escape aboard another train. Once aboard, Paxton hears the familiar voice of Josh\'s torturer, the Dutch businessman. As the train stops in Vienna, Austria, Paxton follows him to a public restroom and throws the Elite Hunting\'s card under his stall. When the Dutch businessman reaches down to pick it up, Paxton grabs some of his fingers from the outside and cuts them off. He then breaks in the stall and nearly drowns the Dutch businessman in the toilet bowl before slitting his throat, killing him. Paxton then leaves to board another train out of Austria.
The film was billed as "inspired by true events"; Eli Roth claimed to have read about poverty stricken individuals in Thailand who would sell "members of their family to organized crime, then American and European businessmen would pay $10,000 to walk in a room and shoot them in the head."\'Hostel\' - Eli Roth Q&A - News - Film - Time Out London
Despite the fact that most of the movie is set in a small fictional location near Bratislava, Slovakia, actually not a single sequence was shot in Slovakia, and the film opened #1 at the box office in Slovakia. The filming locations were at the Barrandov Studios, in Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic. In addition to the lower costs of filming in the Czech Republic, Barrandov has well-equipped sound stages, making it a popular choice for US productions set in Europe. 95% of the film was shot on location in and around Prague, and the stage was only used for the main torture rooms.
The film\'s opening weekend North American box office gross was $19.5 million, making it the top grossing film that weekend. It went on to gross a total of $47.2 million in the U.S. The film\'s budget was around $4.5 million,Hostel (2005) - Box office / business and the film went on to gross over $80 million dollars at the box office worldwide.
The film received mixed reviews from critics. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 58% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 96 reviews.Hostel - Movie Reviews, Trailers, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved on 2008-02-08. On Metacritic, the film had an average score of 55 out of 100, based on 21 reviews.Hostel (2006): Reviews. Metacritic. Retrieved on 2008-02-08.
Critics attacked the film for its violence, while defenders interpreted it as a subversive commentary on the darkest aspects of a capitalist society, and how people exploit others for their own pleasure.[citation needed] Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw noted that Hostel was "actually silly, crass and queasy. And not in a good way".Peter Bradshaw: "Hostel" review, at Guardian Unlimited Jean Francois Rauger, a major film critic for Le Monde, a French newspaper, and programmer of the Cinémathèque Française, listed Hostel as the Best American Film of 2006, and hailed the film as a brilliant comment on capitalism gone too far.[citation needed] Artforum magazine in America called the film the smartest comment in cinema to date on American imperialism.[citation needed] Hostel won the 2006 Empire Award for Best Horror Film. In October 2007 H.M.V. stores\' annual Horror poll ranked Hostel on their list of the 10 best horror films of all time. It was the only modern horror film on the list, the most recent after it was made in 1988. Bravo\'s "100 Scariest Movie Moments: Even Scarier Movie Moments" ranked Hostel as the #1 scariest film moment of all time.
The film received strong pre-release complaints from the country of Slovakia, which is depicted in the film, and also from the Czech Republic. Slovak officials were disgusted by the film\'s portrayal of their native country as an undeveloped, poor and uncultured country suffering from high criminality, war and prostitution, fearing that it would "damage the good reputation of Slovakia" and would make foreigners feel that it was a dangerous place to be. The tourist board of Slovakia invited Roth on an all-expense paid trip to their country so he could see it\'s not made up of run down factories and kids who kill for bubble gum. Tomas Galbavy, a Slovak Member of Parliament, recently commented: "I am offended by this film. I think that all Slovaks should feel offended."Movie & TV News @ IMDb.com - WENN - 28 February 2006
In his defense, Director Eli Roth said that the film was not meant to be offensive, arguing that "Americans do not even know that this country exists. My film is not a geographical work but aims to show Americans\' ignorance of the world around them." To many viewers, Hostel appears to be misplaced, both culturally and geographically. Roth said he did this intentionally, meaning to show American stereotypes of Eastern Europe, while the Americans in the film are portrayed accurately.Hostel: April 2006 Archives Roth has repeatedly argued that despite the many films in the The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series, people still go to Texas.Close-Up Film FeaturesReally Scary Interviews Eli Roth
At the very first screening of Hostel at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival, two separate ambulances were called from people having such extreme reactions to the film. One man left the theater during Josh\'s torture, fainted, and tumbled down the escalator, and during Paxton\'s torture a woman had festival volunteers call an ambulance, claiming the film was giving her a heart attack. Both patrons were okay, and local media thought it was a publicity stunt by director Eli Roth.[citation needed] Roth said he knew nothing of the incidents, as he was in the theater watching the film, and only found out after when he was told by the festival programmer Colin Geddes of the chaos that transpired.[citation needed]
Hostel: Part II is the sequel to Hostel. The film was released on June 8, 2007.
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| Preceded by The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Box office number-one films of 2006 (USA) January 8, 2006 | Succeeded by Glory Road |
| Films directed by Eli Roth |
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Cabin Fever • Hostel • Grindhouse • Hostel: Part II • Trailer Trash (film) • Cell |
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