Planning a fun overseas trip to Slovakia with some friends? Sounds great, but the Elite Hunting Club have other plans for you.
Eli Roth's <I>Hostel</i>, a "torture porn" classic that follows young tourists looking to have fun, only to be captured by an underground organization who pay top dollar to torture and kill tourists, took us on a whole new adventure that made some of our biggest traveling fears come true.
Well done, Mr. Roth. Well done.
(<A HREF="https://boxd.it/4UbUwl">Originally published on LG OLED's Letterboxd</A>)
Hostel
Welcome to your worst nightmare.
Rating
3.3 (2)
Release Date
9/17/2005Runtime
94 minsGenres
Overview
Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$4,800,000Revenue
$81,979,826Homepage
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How It Feels
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A relentless descent into terror where naive tourists discover too late that a seemingly perfect vacation is a predator's trap. The film escalates from disorientation to unsparing brutality, leaving viewers stranded in a nightmare with no escape route.
Mood
ParanoidDread-soakedUnsettlingClaustrophobic
Themes
SurvivalCorruptionIsolation
Tone
Bleak
Pacing
Propulsive
Look
HandheldNaturalisticHigh-contrast
Structure
Linear
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Graphic violenceSexual contentBody horror
Reviews
Hostel Collection
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