Hostel (2005)

Regista:

Eli Roth

Sceneggiatore (WGA):

Eli Roth (written by)

Data di uscita:

6 gennaio 2006 (USA)

Genere:

Horror | Thriller

Slogan:

Welcome To Your Worst Nightmare

Plot:

Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.

Plot Keywords:

Whipping | Gory | Chainsaw | Perverse | Nipples

Premi:

4 wins & 5 nominations

Recensioni degli utenti:

Good idea...turned to generic garbage.

Cast

Jay Hernandez	...	Paxton
Derek Richardson	...	Josh
Eythor Gudjonsson	...	Oli
Barbara Nedeljakova	...	Natalya
Jan Vlasák	...	The Dutch Businessman
Jana Kaderabkova	...	Svetlana
Jennifer Lim	...	Kana
Keiko Seiko	...	Yuki
Lubomir Bukovy	...	Alex
Jana Havlickova	...	Vala
Rick Hoffman	...	The American Client
Petr Janis	...	The German Surgeon
Takashi Miike	...	Miike Takashi
Patrik Zigo	...	Bubble Gum Gang Leader (as Zigo Patrik)
Milda Jedi Havlas	...	Desk Clerk Jedi

Durata:

94 min | Philippines:93 min (cut)

Nazionalità:

USA

Lingua:

Inglese | Ceco | Tedesco | Olandese | Slovak | Giapponese | Icelandic | Russian | Spagnolo

Colore:

Colore

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sonoro:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Divieti:

Sweden:15 | France:-16 (with warning) | Philippines:R-18 (MTRCB) | Australia:R | Hong Kong:III | Portugal:M/18 | South Korea:18 (re-rating) (cut) | Belgium:KNT | New Zealand:R18 | Malaysia:(Banned) (theatrical) | South Africa:16 | Finland:K-18 | Netherlands:16 | Argentina:16 | Switzerland:18 (canton of Geneva) | Norway:18 (self applied) (with warning) | Mexico:D | Japan:R-18 | Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Italy:VM14 | Malaysia:18SG (unrated DVD version) | Switzerland:18 (canton of Vaud) | UK:18 | Canada:18+ (Quebec) | Brazil:18 | Iceland:16 | Germany:Not Rated (SPIO/JK) (extended version) | USA:R (certificate #42205) | South Korea:Limited (original rating) | Hungary:18 | Singapore:R21 (cut) | Germany:18 (nf)

Luoghi delle riprese:

Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic

Company:

Hostel LLC

Curiosità:

Oli speaks a little Icelandic in the film. When knocking on the hotel door Oli yells "Djöfulsins" which literally means "devil", but in the context it kind of the Icelandic "fuck", also Oli says the word "snípur" which means "clit". Also when Josh calls Oli and he gets his voice mail which sounded "Hæ, þetta er Óli, legðu inn skilaboð og ég hringi í þig." which translates "Hi, this is Oli, leave a message and I'll call you back". In the subtitles on the DVD the word "snípur" is misspelled as "sneepur" to avoid people confusing it with the english word "sniper".

Errori:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Closely after the beginning of the movie, one of the characters speaks about the fact that in Slovakia there are so many women and so few men left because the war had nearly killed them all. The last military conflict that took place in Czechoslovakia (which at the time was formed by the actual Czech Republic and Slovakia) was the soviet military intervention in 1968, meant to stop the people's movements against the communist regime, and it can hardly be called a "war". But this may have simply been a ploy to get them to go there.

Citazioni:

[first lines]
Paxton: Amsterdam, motherfucker!

Movie Connections:

Features Chodník cez Dunaj (1989) (TV)

Colonna sonora:

Oddity

Good idea...turned to generic garbage.

This movie really could have been so much more. The idea would have been much better off with someone who actually wanted to make a decent movie, instead of a porno gorefest. The first half of the movie consists almost entirely of sex, talk of sex, drugs, and talk of drugs. Instead of, hey, maybe develop the characters a little so the audience might care about them and make their plights a little more tense, the filmmakers decided to have a lot of party scenes and annoying main characters acting like idiots until, uh oh, we didn't plan on being tortured, oops! The sad thing is, there are hints of something more intelligent beneath the surface, but the surface is piled so high with garbage that it's lost. For example, while at a sex club (wow, original!) one of the characters mentions something along the lines of "paying to do anything you want to a person," of course he means sexually, but we know the basic plot of the movie involves the same concept with death and torture instead of sex. One of the characters is supposed to seem like a nice guy, but still never really develops enough for us to care. The main character has absolutely no depth other than a childhood story and his shallow interaction with his friend. The last half or so of the movie actually starts to gain momentum, and the first half not been an entire waste of film, I could have walked away with more than a feeling that I'd just watched 15 minutes of an okay movie, and an hour and fifteen minutes of porn and senseless gore. Sadly enough, the idea of this movie was put into the wrong hands. A little less than halfway through, my friend turned to me and said, "Maybe I picked up the wrong movie..." to which I replied, "Yeah, I think you got Eurotrip by accident." I am baffled as to why they decided to write the first half like they did. I guess I was hoping for something deeper. Don't watch this expecting anything special, be ready for lots of nudity and lots of incredibly disturbing gore mixed randomly, the two not even seeming to fit like they would in a slasher flick.