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.
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Language	English Czech example ( info) German example ( info) Icelandic example ( info) Japanese examp. ( info) Dutch example ( info) Russian example ( info) Slovak example ( info) Spanish example ( info) (example help)
Budget	$4.5 million
Gross revenue	$80,578,934
Followed by	Hostel: Part II
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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 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. Eli Roth (born April 18, 1972) is an American film director, producer, writer and actor. ... Eli Roth (born April 18, 1972) is an American film director, producer, writer and actor. ... Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an Academy Award- and Palme dOr-winning American film director, screenwriter and actor. ... A writer and film director with a gift for dealing with controversial issues on personal, human terms, Boaz Yakin was born in New York City in 1966. ... Eli Roth (born April 18, 1972) is an American film director, producer, writer and actor. ... Javier Manuel Jay Hernandez, Jr. ... Derek Richardson (born January 18, 1976) is an American actor. ... Lions Gate redirects here. ... is the 6th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... The year 2006 in film involved some significant events. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links Pulp_fiction. ... Image File history File links Dein_leben. ... Image File history File links Djofulsins. ... Image File history File links Sayonara. ... Image File history File links Dutch_buissnes_man. ... Image File history File links Problem. ... Image File history File links In_english. ... Image File history File links Senorita. ... The year 2005 in film involved some significant events. ... “Horror Movie” redirects here. ... Eli Roth (born April 18, 1972) is an American film director, producer, writer and actor. ... Javier Manuel Jay Hernandez, Jr. ... Derek Richardson (born January 18, 1976) is an American actor. ... Eyþór Guðjónsson (born February 5, 1968 in Iceland) is an actor. ... Barbara Nedeljáková (born 19 May 1979) is a Slovak actress who is perhaps best known as Natalya from the film Hostel. ... For other uses, see Censor. ... is the 159th day of the year (160th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...

Plot

In Amsterdam, American backpackers Paxton (Jay Hernandez) and 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 local 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. For other uses, see Amsterdam (disambiguation). ... Javier Manuel Jay Hernandez, Jr. ... Derek Richardson (born January 18, 1976) is an American actor. ... Eyþór Guðjónsson (born February 5, 1968 in Iceland) is an actor. ... Barbara Nedeljáková (born 19 May 1979) is a Slovak actress who is perhaps best known as Natalya from the film Hostel. ... Look up spa, Spa, SpA in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the music genre. ...

Afterwards, 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. Unbeknownst to Josh and Paxton, Oli has been decapitated and Yuki tortured, and (presumably) killed. Paxton and Josh decide to leave Bratislava with Kana the following day. They spot a man wearing Oli's jacket at a museum of medieval torture relics. Paxton later notices that the MMS photo of the Oli, Yuki and the smokestack is faked. 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. For the Microsoft Media Server (MMS) protocol, see Microsoft Media Services. ... The Japanese language is a spoken and written language used mainly in Japan. ... , Nickname: Beauty on the Danube Country  Slovakia Region Districts Rivers Elevation 134 m (440 ft) Coordinates , Highest point Devínska Kobyla  - elevation 514 m (1,686 ft) Lowest point Danube River  - elevation 126 m (413 ft) Area 367. ...

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 drilling him in his pecs just above josh's nipples. after he is done, the Dutch Business man sits down and talks to Josh, explaining his unfulfilled dreams of being a surgeon. Josh begs to be released, the businessman then cuts Josh's ankles and lets him crawl towards the door before finally murdering him. The dungeons of Blarney Castle. ... PECS stands for Picture Exchange Communication System, and is typically used as an aid for autistic children. ... Nipple is, generally, the name given to the mammalian nipple, or to things resembling it, such as the tip of an artificial teat or the tip of a grease secreting mechanism in machinery. ...

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 an "art show" where he thinks his friends are. They drive to a factory on the outskirts of the town where inside, Paxton sees the Dutch Businessman cutting up Josh's dead body. He screams at Natalya who laughs at him and he is then 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 tortures him. Distracted by Paxton's ability to plea for his life in German, the client puts a ball-gag in his mouth and tries to kill him with a chainsaw, but before he can begin Paxton starts throwing up. Due to his ball-gag, he starts to choke on his own vomit, and the client quickly removes the ball-gag, probably to stop Paxton dying before he could kill him. He then continues his torture with the chainsaw, but inadvertently saws off Paxton's handcuffs along with his ring and pinky finger before slipping on the blood from Paxton's injury onto the floor. Paxton breaks free and shoots the client; he then calls to a guard for help and shoots and kills the guard before escaping to the upper levels of the factory, where he sees dead bodies being chopped up by a butcher for cremation. Paxton kills the butcher, and then peers outside where he can see police officers conspiring with the factory men. Paxton dresses himself in the clothes of a client, pulling a glove over his mutilated hand, when he discovers a business card for Elite Hunting, now revealed as a secret, worldwide, murder-for-profit organization that charges ascending rates for Slovakians, Europeans, and most of all for Americans. 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. Miroslav Táborský (born 9 November 1959, in Prague, Czech Republic) is a notable Czech actor who has appeared in multiple Czech TV series, as well as in some American movies. ... Elite Hunting is a fictional criminal organization and the major antagonists in the horror films Hostel and Hostel: Part II, which operates a worldwide clandestine murder-for-profit business. ... Rick Hoffman (born June 12, 1970 in New York City, New York) is an American actor. ...

Paxton and Kana flee the factory in a stolen car and head to the railway station, on the way spotting Alexei, Natalya, and Svetlana from the original hostel. Paxton subsequently runs them over, presumably for revenge. He later runs into the gang of kids and notices that he is in the same car that he was driven in to the 'art show', which has a bag of candy in it. The gang then kills the people chasing Paxton. At the railway station, 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 his hand and, using a scalpel, cuts off the same fingers he lost during his escape. He then breaks in the stall and nearly drowns the Dutch businessman in the toilet bowl, allowing time for him to recognize Paxton, before slitting his throat, killing him. Paxton then leaves to board another train out of Austria. This article is about the city and federal state in Austria. ... Elite Hunting is a fictional criminal organization and the major antagonists in the horror films Hostel and Hostel: Part II, which operates a worldwide clandestine murder-for-profit business. ...

Cast

• Jay Hernandez as Paxton
• Derek Richardson as Josh
• Eyþór Guðjónsson as Oli
• Barbara Nedeljáková as Natalya
• Jan Vlasák as The Dutch Businessman
• Jana Kaderabkova as Svetlana
• Jennifer Lim as Kana
• Keiko Seiko as Yuki
• Lubomir Bukovy as Alexei
• Jana Havlickova as Vala
• Rick Hoffman as The American Client
• Petr Janis as The German Surgeon
• Takashi Miike as Miike Takashi
• Patrik Zigo as The Bubblegum Gang Leader

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Production

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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."^[1] Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 399 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (503 × 755 pixel, file size: 90 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This image is of a poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher or the creator of the work... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 399 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (503 × 755 pixel, file size: 90 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This image is of a poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher or the creator of the work... Organized crime or criminal organizations are groups or operations run by criminals, most commonly for the purpose of generating a monetary profit. ...

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. 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. , Nickname: Beauty on the Danube Country  Slovakia Region Districts Rivers Elevation 134 m (440 ft) Coordinates , Highest point Devínska Kobyla  - elevation 514 m (1,686 ft) Lowest point Danube River  - elevation 126 m (413 ft) Area 367. ... Barrandov Studios are a famous set of film studios in Prague, Czech Republic. ... . Český Krumlov (  listen) is a small city in the South Bohemia region of the Czech Republic, best known for the fine architecture and art of the historic old town and Krumlov Castle. ... Barrandov is the largest film studio in the Czech Republic, located in Prague. ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ...

Reception

Box office

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,^[2] and the film went on to gross over $80 million dollars at the box office worldwide.

Reviews

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.^[3] On Metacritic, the film had an average score of 55 out of 100, based on 21 reviews.^[4] This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Metacritic is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows, DVDs and books. ...

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".^[5] David Edelstein of New York Magazine credited director Roth with creating the horror sub-genre 'torture porn,' or 'gorno,' using excessive violence to excite audiences like a sexual act.^[6] Jean Francois Rauger, 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. For other uses, see Guardian. ... Peter Bradshaw is a British writer and film critic. ... David Edelstein is the chief film critic for New York Magazine, as well as the film critic for NPRs Fresh Air and CBS Sunday Morning. ... New York is a weekly magazine concerned with the life, culture, politics, and style of New York City. ... Poster art for Blood Feast (1963) A splatter film or gore film is a type of horror film that deliberately focuses on graphic portrayals of gore and graphic violence. ... For the song by the Thievery Corporation, see Le Monde (song). ... Cinémathèque Française hosts the largest archive of films, movie documents, and film-related objects in the world. ...

Controversy

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 gypsy 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."^[7]-1... Whore redirects here. ...

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."^[7] 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.^[8] Roth has repeatedly argued that despite the many films in the The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series, people still go to Texas.^[9][10] The Texas Chainsaw Massacre horror films began with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) by Tobe Hooper. ...

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]}

Sequel

Hostel: Part II is the sequel to Hostel. The film was released on June 8, 2007. is the 159th day of the year (160th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...

References

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