Hostel

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Hostel

R

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

Dec 29, 2006

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.

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Scott Tobias

AV Club

Nov 27, 2006

C

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

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Simon Crook

Empire Magazine

Aug 2, 2006

3/5

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

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Bryce Hanson

Horror Movie Talk

Sep 23, 2025

10/10

It’s definitely exploitative. From the generous heaping of bare tits, to the sinkfuls of mangled limbs, it’s not purporting to be high art. However... it does take extra care into providing a framework for these exploitative elements to exist believably.

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Akos Peterbencze

The Screen

Apr 4, 2025

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

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Justin Brown

Medium Popcorn

Apr 29, 2022

2/5

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

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Arnold

2 days ago

I was very happy to see this movie return to theaters for a first time watch been dreaming to see this movie in theaters for a long time I watch this movie at home as a teenager.

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Nolan M

@vyzee Sep 26, 2026

Not very good. Way too pervy for my taste, but the gore is impressive.

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Robert P

@Superbad Sep 4, 2026

Hostel is a violent movie including killings. Not recommended

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B P

@Bradster69 Sep 2, 2026

Not Bad, but Not My Favorite

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Cinema S

@cinema_sensei Aug 29, 2026

The idea of rich tourists paying to murder victims is genuinely terrifying, and the bleak European setting builds great initial tension. But once the torture starts, it drops all mystery for pure, stomach-churning gore. The characters are paper-thin slasher clichés, making it hard to care. It certainly leaves an impression, but as a film, it relies far too heavily on cheap shock tactics.

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Dan C

@djeec Aug 17, 2026

The second I knew what Eli Roth was all about was when I saw one particular scene from Hostel. It's easy to miss if you're not paying that close attention, but it's a big tell in how Eli doesn't really understand how motivation is supposed to work in a film: Two pretty girls seduce the American boys into staying at the hostel. When the boys are left to their, soon to be very gruesome deaths, the girls give each other a knowing look and a smile and just walk away. That's when the whole thing fell apart for me. These are two very attractive females, that give zero indication that they are evil, especially THAT evil. Knowing what they did to these guys and thinking it's funny doesn't make any sense in any universe. Their motivation is completely and utterly out of character. When you're writing is that sloppy, you shouldn't be making movies. But, I guess if you know QT, you get to make them anyway.

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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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