Produced, Written & Directed by: Eli Roth Starring: Jay Hernandez .... Paxton Derek Richardson .... Josh Eythor Gudjonsson .... Oli Barbara Nedeljakova .... Natalya Jan Vlasak .... The Dutch Businessman Jana Kaderabkova .... Svetlana Yaphet Kotto .... Parker Jennifer Lim .... Kana Release Date: Toronto Film Festival: September 17, 2005; Iceland International Film Festival: November 12, 2005; Theatrical: January 6, 2006 (USA); Gerardmer Film Festival: January 27, 2006; Mar del Plata Film Festival (Argentina): March 13, 2006 Rating:

3 American backpackers are hanging out at a Hostel in Amsterdam where they party and have sex at sleazy joints.
Then they are locked out but are invited into a man's house where he tells them of a Hostel in eastern Europe where there's alot of hot women who love American men.
They arrive there from a train where they encounter a strange man and then when they go to the city they are stalked by a group of children.
Suddenly when the group hooks up with the women there they end up missing one by one as they are kidnapped by a group of psychotic agents who torture and kill them and realise the city is invaded by these people and not even the law is safe.

I am not a fan of psychological horror films but I gave this an average rating for it's suspenseful story as it should please viewers who like a good story with blood and action in it.
It is very disturbing and intense too as you feel like you're in the film with these people trying to escape the city and also making you think that a far off country to stay for a vacation can be hellish and deadly.

The acting is terrific as we get a dynamic performance by Jay Hernandez with a well supported cast.
The acting is incredibly intense during the death and torture scenes as it will guarantee to make you cringe.

Oooh yeah plenty of nudity as the first half seems like a soft core porn flick.
There's full bodied nudity by women at the sleazy joints as well as pics of them having group sex and fornicating with the American men there.
We even have some butt shots of the men too.

Extremely gory and bloody.
Lots of body parts
Drilling holes through people's skin
Side of an asian girls face is burned
Lots of blood slattering
Heads smashed in
People being dissected you name it! This film has it!

Eli Roth at his best.
He knows how to pack the terror and suspense in this film especially with the last survivor trying to escape this madness.
He has good shots of the train coming into the stations for passengers as well as the dark building where the people are being slaughtered alive.

The music was also terrifically composed with a great chilling classical score by Nathan Barr.

We also get a balls to the wall soundtrack by groups like Shortie, The Phonosapiens, Mephisto Odyssey, The Dwarves, C-BO, Tublatanka, Elan, Meky Zbirka and Marika Gombitová, The Sneaker Pimps, Michal David and Kroky Frantiska Janecka, Team and even a track by writer/director Eli Roth himself titled "The Surgeon"

The DVD Features:

U.S.A.	DVD
Canada	DVD
U.K.	DVD

[first lines]
Josh: Did we come all the way to Europe to smoke pot?
Oli: Hey, I came all the way from Iceland.

Paxton: You made a reservation under "The King of Swing"?
Oli: Of course my horse.

[repeated line]
Oli: I am the king of the swing!

Paxton: Do you see a single other person in here with a fucking fannie pack? Wait, there's a guy. Why don't you go over there and have fucking fannie back sex with him, and then you can jizz all over each others storage commpartment

Paxton: We can't rail a girl that's in a coma

Paxton: Excuse me, I uh... excuse me. How is it in there?
Man: [referring to the torture chamber] Be careful.
Paxton: Why's that?
Man: You could, spend ALL your money... in there.

Josh: You... Why?
The Dutch Businessman: I always wanted to be a surgeon. But the boards would not pass me. Can you guess why? You see? So I went into business. But business is so boring. You buy things you sell them, you make money you spend money. What kind of life is that? A surgeon, he holds the very essence of life in his hands - your life. He touches it.
The Dutch Businessman: He touches it. He has a relationship with it. He is part of it.
Josh: Please just let me go, please...
The Dutch Businessman: You want to go? Is that what you want?

Svetlana: [to Paxton] Why don't you... have a drink?

Paxton: I don't want to drink. I want to look at art!

Natalya: I get a lot of money for you, and that makes you MY bitch.