Director Eli Roth (Cabin Fever) has scored a bull's eye simply by going back to what makes exploitation films great. Thus he produces a film that could have been lensed in the freewheeling year of 1975 rather than PG-13 stuffy year of 2005.
The film starts with two American college students and an Icelandic hanger on enjoying some debauchery in Amsterdam. They hear about a nirvana for sex and drugs in Slovakia and they pursue it as if they were traversing the Himalayas to find Shangri-La.
What they find is,,, well I won't spoil it for you but they should have stuck with the marijuana brownies and overpriced Dutch hookers.
The movie actually makes torture scenes enjoyable again. (I generally have hated the whole torture motif in modern film for example Rest Stop.) Roth unlike his contemporaries shows the gore without those annoying zooming camera tricks. The leads are unlikable in a fun rather than irritating way (not easy to do) and the film has both a wonderful energy and plentiful surprises.
Oh and there is copious amounts of extremely well done gratuitous nudity and sadistic gore. One of the best films of 2005.
Hostel is filled (at least the first two-thirds of it) with these wonderful bacchanalian scenes.
If you are going to be tortured to death spending your last moments with Barbara Nedeljakova and Jana Kaderabkova isn't the worst of trade-offs.
Say hello to Natali Tothova. Somehow Hostel scoured the modeling agencies of Eastern Europe and managed to find a bevy of beauties whereas other explotation films that take advantage of inexpensive local talent always seem to end up with ladies either two minutes from a heroin overdose or stout types in a embriotic bubushka state.
Paula Wild is the hooker with a heart of gold (comparatively speaking) in this crazy brothel in the beginning of Hostel. The shadows of sex are a brilliant way to suggest much more hardcore sex than is actually shown.
What kind of name is Sandy Style? Seriously that is the moniker for the actress in the clip above. It reminds me for some reason of the Wii first person shooter called The Conduit. The main villian of the Conduit is named John Adams so of course you are chasing John Adams... John Adams is double dealing with aliens... and my personal favorite John Adams is traveling through time to destroy the world.
Honestly how the playtesters for that game didn't get workmans comp from the rib injuries caused by laughing at the stupidity is beyond me.
Call me Mr. Overcautious... but I am not sure I would take sex tourism tips from a guy with an open sore on his lip.
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