Look at the poster. It doesn't get more generic than this. Hostel is a crapshoot, cliche horror movie that does not actually include a single moment of horror. It is the story of two stupid men who let their body below their waist control them when they go to Amsterdam. Things go awry when a seemingly perfect hostel (with topless women) is actually a trap for tourists to kill other tourists. This is why you don't stay in shady places in Europe!
Hostel is among the worst movies I have ever seen for this reason: each scene is either sexual of graphically violent. The first half of the movie is sex scenes compiled in an order to loosely have a plot, but then it fades into violence. Viewers will sure be grossed out by the numerous limbs or other appendages cut off in this film.
The poster boasts Quentin Tarantino as a director, yet Eli Roth actually directed it. They are using Tarantino's name as a poor reason to justify it's violence. Doesn't it disturb you at all that the violence comes dangerously close to a NC-17 rating (but isn't) and Requiem for a Dream actually is? Weird.
To call the Hostel the "scariest American movie in a decade" is a cinematic crime. Nuff said. By the way, it has a sequel. Only another two hours of violence, but this time there's a castration scene.
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