the plot and in short represent three backpacker and two american and one icelander and do europe by train with two major goal represent to get high and nail a many woman a possible . in amsterdam they accidentally learn of a hostel in bratislava and slovakia where sex mad woman thirst for men in general and and american men i particular . they of course decide to go there and at first it seem the rumor be true . but they soon learn that the hostel be nothing more than a front for a bizarre club and where people can pay a huge fee to get to perform unspeakable act . my 2 cent represent the director and writer eli roth big accomplishment before hostel be cabin fever ( 2002 ) weather or not that be something good be a matter of personal judgment . that he get two evil deaders ( scott spiegel and fx genius gregory nicotero ) interest in his script be not at all surprising . but how he get quentin tarantino to executive produce ( and thereby act a posterboy for his flick ) be and to me and a total and utter mystery . hostel have potential and i be not go to take that away from it . the thought that a place exist where rich people pay money to torture and kill other people be interesting . and a story about a kidnapped person who find himself lock in that very place and wait for his assassin and should make for a great film . the film be wonderfully lit and specifically in the torture chamber scene . and the set dressing in those scene be marvelous . it really feel like roth find these place and just shoot them a the be . but the lighting and set dressing and potentially rich story and unfortunately and end the positive thing i have to say about hostel . it be frustrate to see a story that could have be so exciting and horrific get so utterly fumble up . the movie be an hour and a half long and and take a whopping 50 minute to get to the place that be suppose to be the scene of terror and creepiness . the nearly hour long intro be spend observe the backpacker while they party and get high and watch naked lady in amsterdam red light district . when the story finally start to focus on whatever be wrong with the slovakian hostel it point everything out to such an extensive degree that it feel like roth want to put a stupid hat on every member in the audience . i sit and in vain and and wait for him to take the lid off and go ta daa . and show me something intelligent that i have miss . but it never happen and when the lid and towards the end and slowly slide off on it own accord it turn out that the one you suspect be bad guy be in fact . bad guy . the one you suspect be dead . be dead . and the entire movie end the way you suspect it would all along . jay hernandez ( paxton ) and derek richardson ( josh ) doesn not do to shabby in the two lead . but roth have stay true to hollywood formula and choose picturesque before personality and and the big part have unfortunately be give to hernandez instead of richardson who i think be more likable and and more interesting to watch . spanish director koldo serra make el tren de la bruja in 2003. a short film about a man who agree to partake in an experiment and suddenly find himself strap to a chair in a dark room . he hear metal object be handle and someone pacing back and forth in the room . when the light be turn on it dawn on him that he will probably be torture to death . serras short film be fifteen minute long . it be film in two day and be scary a hell . hostel be both longer and have and a it first seem and more story to build on . but it still want to base the horror in exactly the same sort of scene a serras short and fail miserably . hostel be and probably and make specifically for an american teen audience and where drug and naked woman represent half of the movie pull . blood and bodyparts make up the other half . if you watch this and expect anything more sophisticated than some blood and naked breast you will be disappoint .