Hostel

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Hostel

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Released Jan 6, 2006

1h 35m

Horror

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Best friends Josh (Derek Richardson) and Paxton (Jay Hernandez) decide to spend the summer after college graduation on an all-out backpacking trip across Europe. While stopping in Amsterdam to indulge their tastes for drugs and sex, they meet Oli (Eythor Gudjonsson), a like-minded traveler from Iceland. When the three bachelors set off to investigate enticing rumors of a Slovakian hostel in a city populated by lusty women, they find themselves drawn unwittingly into a deadly game.

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Critics Consensus

Featuring lots of guts and gore, Hostel is a wildly entertaining corpse-filled journey -- assuming one is entertained by corpses, guts, and gore, that is.

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Christy Lemire

Associated Press

Whether or not this kind of horror movie is your cup of tea, you have to at least admire Roth for the daring and creativity with which he illustrates that concept.

Dec 29, 2006

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Scott Tobias

AV Club

Hostel's merely unpleasant and more than a little dumb.

Rated: C

Nov 27, 2006

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Simon Crook

Empire Magazine

The first act's filler, otherwise it's a squirmer. Bring a bucket.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 2, 2006

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Akos Peterbencze

The Screen

Inelegant, schlocky, and full-on? Sure. But it’s also a relentless B-movie hitting your nerves with a blood-soaked meat pounder.

Apr 4, 2025

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Justin Brown

Medium Popcorn

This movie is rough all around. The gore was well done and was something different we hadn't seen before in a horror film.

Rated: 2/5

Apr 29, 2022

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Brandon Collins

Medium Popcorn

I did not enjoy watching this at all. The decisions the characters made were nonsensical. I couldn't recommend this less unless over the top gore with little substance is your thing.

Rated: 1/5

Apr 29, 2022

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Wendel L

Direção: Bom Atuação: Ok Roteiro: Bom Caracterização: Bom Soundtrack: Ok

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

09/07/25

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Alejandra C

Its so dumb but its so good, probably traumatized a lot of americans at that time.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

09/06/25

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George M

Brutal, worthless movie that proves Roth is a hack supreme.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/25/25

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Mattia S

Hostel starts off painfully slow, dragging through a dull first half that fails to build any real suspense or interest. When the action finally kicks in, it quickly turns into something even worse: a predictable and uninspired mess. You can see every twist coming a mile away, leaving no room for surprise or tension. In the end, it’s not scary, not clever—just plain awful.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/26/25

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Khaztiel Delbod D

Es una película con un inicio fatal, creo que eso hizo que no pudiera empatizar con los personajes y me diera igual se morían. El final tiene un desenlace que termino gustandome pero aún así le falto más desarrollo a la trama.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

07/16/25

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Beth R

I watched this movie when it first came out and I liked it! But now years later I watched it again and again and again! Very entertaining I highly recommend!

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

06/25/25

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Synopsis

Best friends Josh (Derek Richardson) and Paxton (Jay Hernandez) decide to spend the summer after college graduation on an all-out backpacking trip across Europe. While stopping in Amsterdam to indulge their tastes for drugs and sex, they meet Oli (Eythor Gudjonsson), a like-minded traveler from Iceland. When the three bachelors set off to investigate enticing rumors of a Slovakian hostel in a city populated by lusty women, they find themselves drawn unwittingly into a deadly game.

Director: Eli Roth
Producer: Eli Roth, Mike Fleiss
Screenwriter: Eli Roth
Distributor: Lionsgate Films
Production Co: Hostel LLC, Raw Nerve, International Production Company
Rating: R (Drug Use|Brutal Torture and Violence|Language|Strong Sexual Content)
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 6, 2006, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 16, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $47.3M
Runtime: 1h 35m
Sound Mix: SDDS, DTS, Dolby Digital, Dolby SRD
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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