So my husband and I visited Bratislava and took a walking tour one day. The tour guide was this sweet college girl who actually thanked all of us for visiting because apparently between this movie and Eurotrip (which also painted Bratislava in a bad light) tourism had really suffered and dropped! The people were so friendly, the food was good and it was really cheap. Plus downtown was beautiful!!! We had a blast there and still feel bad for the locals because of these movies
I live in a very ''touristy'' part of scotland and as much as locals dislike tourists clogging up the streets and shops we need them to keep those shops open.
I repeat: Amanda has watched the Human Centipede, watched Hostel, read the After novels and watched the movies, read the 365 Days novel, the Fifty Shades trilogy including the Grey POV one... She deserves an award for this pain XD
I was working my first job at the movie theater when this came out, it’s the only movie I remember that management absolutely did not let anyone under 18 in even if a parent was with them and we had to stand guard to make sure no kids snuck in.
I was also working at a movie theatre when this came out. We did ID checks at the door and then right before the movie started we went into the theatre we did another round of ID checks. It was bonkers
I was working my first job at a movie theater when the second one came out. Seeing Heather Matarazzo get tortured is still a very vivid memory of mine 🙃
Fun story: I matched with a lawyer on some dating site and he took me to see this movie. He got way into it and wanted me to come back to his house (first date) I said no, he took it okay at the time, but then blew up my phone the next day, and my MySpace page, and later my LiveJournal. Anyway, he got picked up for human trafficking about a year later.
@@eliroth9978 I honestly wouldn't be able to say. After the way the story got lost in the torture porn of the first one, I had no desire to watch the second one. I'm not squeamish or easily grossed out, I just hate the way the horror storyline got lost in favour of as much carnage as possible, simply for the sake of carnage. It was just disappointing. Saw has almost as much carnage, but it never loses the actual story of John testing people (or Mandee missing the point with her traps). As evidenced by Green Inferno, Roth seems to just get some kind of enjoyment out of butchering people in the most outrageous ways possible regardless of whether or not there's a real storyline steering it. I might go ahead and watch the second one someday, just don't feel like being disappointed again.
@Eleanor Connelly you know that makes me wonder if they ever got super bored of normal life and got wild careers like tornado chasers, or volcano watcher or if they ever go clean the ocean. Wow. That last one is a genius idea, actually. They don't have to breathe, oil spills won't harm them, radioactivity won't harm them. I'm fairly sure they'd be able to lift whatever off the ocean floor...
Amanda should really make more reaction videos like this, it doesn't even have to be gross-out torture-porn movies. Her reactions are hilarious and her commentary is on point.
I'm from Slovakia and I work in hotel industry. I remember influx of tourists thinking hostel was based on reality. It couldn't be further from that...
And the best thing is that they didn't even film it in Slovakia 😂 and didn't even bother to change the street signs to the correct language so there are Czech signs in "Slovakia"
It took me a second viewing to realize how much of a gut-punch Katya's death is. It feels intentional: his big backstory drop is 'Yeah I always regretted seeing that girl drown', we watch him bust his bleeding butt trying to make good, and just when it looks like his arc is resolved by him saving himself and Katya...she jumps in front of a train. Ow, Eli. Ow.
Eh, that's imprecise. Human trafficking is just the logistics of obtaining and transporting the people FOR horrible things to be done to them. The trafficker might not be the one actually doing the horrible things, the 'end user' as it were.
i remember when my cousin went on a gap year in new zealand and spent most of her nights in hostels. my older sister was scandalized because she’d seen these movies, and i was scandalized because i was 11 and i had confused the words “hostel” and “brothel”. we both acted very shocked and asked her why she would do something like that. then my cousin continued to describe her experience and i said, “oh! hostel? i thought you said you were in a brothel.” then my other cousin said, “brothel? like, where they give soup to homeless people?”
I saw this opening night in the theater. I have NEVER seen an audience go that insane as far as cheering, screaming "Yes!", "Oh yeah!", etc. as I did in the last half hour of this movie. From the chainsaw scene on, it was just a rush.
I never watched any Hostel movies for the same reason I never watched any Saw movies. I can handle horror movies with supernatural creatures and situations, but Hostel and Saw have people getting tortured in ways that can actually happen in the real world and I just can not.
@@Dreigonix They would both still technically be considered horror. But the movie themselves don't scare me, it's the idea that something like that could actually happen to me or real people that freaks me out. Because there are no ghosts, vampires, or anything like that, just regular old twisted humans using everyday objects.
@@LxstinNeverland I like SAW as a pop culture phenomenon, I’d say. It makes excellent parody material, and the setups are certainly creative, though the only movie I’d say is actually any good is the first one (though SAW: The Game is _very_ much So Bad It’s Good). I am pretty excited for Spiral: From The Book Of Saw, though- they’ve implied it’s gonna be a return to the spirit of the first movie.
honestly, the plot for Saw as it goes on becomes so convoluted and difficult to follow that I'd tell people to avoid the movies just for that reason lol
Fun Fact: The reason why Quentin Tarantino and his works are mentioned so much in Hostel is due to Tarantino and Eli Roth actually being pretty chummy, with Roth even playing the Bear Jew in Inglorious Bastards. Funny how the most uplifting and heartwarming thing about Hostel is a piece of behind the scenes trivia.
Amanda talking about watching Hostel 3: "I started to have a panic attack when someone was being tortured around the eyes." Me knowing what happens in Hostel 1: "Girl! No. Don't do it!"
He’s abusive to his female actors though. He has a foot fetish so he puts gratuitous feet shots, and in Inglourious Basterds when the actress gets strangled it’s Tarantino’s actual hands in the shot
Fun fact: Roth directed _The House With a Clock In Its Walls_ a couple of years ago. Y'know, a kids' film. It's actually pretty decent. Also, Roth's films aren't masterpieces but the guy clearly has so much love for the genre he works in I can't actually hate him/ his films.
Oh yeah im from Slovakia and can someone tell me where all the stuff they talk about is? "you can pay for anything" Like dude i can't even pay for bread on a Friday because the grandmas bought all of it already
YES. Gore is kind of similar to jumpscares in that way- it can be effective if used well, but often is just used excessively as a lazy way to make a movie seem scarier and to get a reaction out of the audience.
@@AmandaTheJedi I actually appreciate how censored this is. It's like, I know I can be safe watching these scary movies without having to personally deal with the gross. So, I can get the storyline and feel the vibe of how terrible it is, but all with your safe interjections and sacrifice. ⭐⭐⭐ Golden stars for you, I'm so sorry, but also thank youuuu 😭⭐
@@AmandaTheJedi I really appreciate how well you edited this. I've always wondered what this movie was about but I knew that I would never have the nerve to watch it.
@@SmileyFace123Lolz seconded for sure! I'm a total weenie when it comes to real horror movies (aka non scifi/fantasy) so I appreciate the context Amanda is giving without showing anything. The Human Centipede ep she did was nausea inducing tho; I toughed it out but it took me more than one sitting.
When I was travelling in Sri Lanka, me and my boyfriend started watching Hostel on a bus with headphones of course but without really knowing the movie beforehand. When the explicit scenes in the beginning started, I got uncomfortable and turned around just to see a little kid watching the movie with us through the gap between our seats. Well, we stopped the movie. Do not watch Hostel on a bus.
Fun fact: in many EU countries, Czech rep and Slovakia included, they actually want you to give them your passport/citizen card in hostels. As someone from CZ, it didn't even occured to me that you should find this weird. In every hostel/hotel in EU I ever was, they took our citizen cards for min half an hour or checked it for info. In apartmans in Greece they took our citizen cards for an entire week, cuz they put them in a safe and forgot about it. Not that strange.
yeah it's the intent to hold onto them that's weird. hotels in the us take your ID/passport too, but only for as long as it takes to verify and register you
The alternate ending was by far better imo. He now has to wonder what is happening to his daughter... he knows the horrors of the world because he has committed them.
that's definitely one of the strengths of that ending, but it falls apart to me because Paxton wouldn't do anything to her (thankfully) and he'd probably just leave her at a future stop if not immediately reported by other passengers. he is a character you root for because, despite his very "American" and righteous behaviour abroad, he is not compassionless like the club members. it's cathartic in a way until you reconsider his character. you could argue he's "snapped" and would simply see it as an eye-for-an-eye but idk, I can't see him doing that to someone else after going through that ordeal, his trauma with not saving the drowning girl when he was younger, and her being an innocent child. many were deeply upset by his fate in the sequel and I think he'd be in a much more grey area with audiences had they gone with that as the official ending. unless the viewer would find it vengeful enough to just temporarily mess with the guy and leave her unharmed (aside from the kidnapping)... but the way the scene's cut and the context of the movie suggests otherwise.
@@washedblue my thoughts are he leaves her at a nearby stop or even shop... her father knows that and he also doesn't know who took her or where. Even taking her to a different town could take her days to get home or to get to a place to call him. Or he keeps her and gets her to America... many options all leave her father living in fear and sadness not know where she is in a city he KNOWS is dangerous for a little girl.
Each time one of the protagonists stated that they are Americans I had flashbacks to Neil Breen dramatically exclaiming "I can't do this, I'm an American, I love this country!" and had to giggle.
Your wincing is how I feel if people are cut open while awake or have their brains removed in horror movies. I have PTSD from waking up during open heart surgery as a child. So, while I love horror movies, I have some things I just can't watch. Some stuff here in this movie causes visceral reactions of fear if I watch it and the Sequel all the way through. Props to you Amanda.
I found it hilarious that she thought that was the most unrealistic part coz it was the most realistic part to me seeing as we actually have child-gangs (not a ton but they are there) here and my friend actually got robbed by one group where they forced him to remove most of his clothes and shoes in the street during the day.
@@wikidclownchris Not to give my country a bad reputation but I live in South Africa. It doesn't happen often at all which is why we all found it so hilarious.
Damn. I've seen this movie several times and this is the first time I've seen the version with Pax taking the kid. Here in Denmark, it was released with the other ending, both on DVD and in theaters.
I've not seen any of the Hostel movies, but almost 7 years after this movie came out I went to Venice and stayed in a hostel and everyone I knew was like, "NO OMG YOU ARE GONNA DIE!" I think the only thing that could have killed me that weekend was the mosquitos, but otherwise I encountered no other torture.
@@urbirdfriend Yup. I worked at a pilgrim's hostel and I remember overhearing a woman (I think she was American?) saying to somebody "no, this is not fucking Hostel, I'm fine".
It made me laugh when you saie re: Eli Roth "he's fucked up right?" because years ago the Discovery Channel did a special with him about evil and they actually did determine his mind does not react the same to images of violence as "normal" brains do. They also sort of reenacted the Milgram experiment. Very interesting stuff.
Nothing really happens in the hostel. It is the stupid drinking with random strangers that is really the moral of the story. "Never trust a beautiful woman, especially if she is interested in you."
It's actually a really well-thought-out slasher movie. I think it's such an interesting concept to compare sex tourism, which is not only super common in places like Amsterdam, but also encouraged, joked about, and accepted- to torture tourism. Both are forms of exploitation, and while it's hard to compare murder to legal prostitution, it can be assumed that these women are still deeply affected by those taking advantage of them. Yet, the protagonists aka clients never question it. In fact, the conversation with the annoying American client is equally crude as the ones they have when talking about the women in Amsterdam in the first half of the movie.
I definitely see your point, and you make good points, but unfortunately I think it’s not that deep. Eli Roth himself uses a lot of misogynistic tropes for entertainment/titillation, and it seems that he could have thoughtlessly damaged the reputation of normal tourism in this area. So I don’t think he necessarily thought it out, so much as used the concept as an excuse.
New policy, even with ads turned off, the most horrific thing shown, and the channel has no adsense account, RUclips can show ads and collect all the revenue. And you agreed to it.
I remember watching this after it came out when I was 18. I started feeling sick watching the torture which was odd because it never affected me before. I ended up throwing up after the eyeball scene. Turns out I had a stomach virus lol
The worst part is that she can't cover her ears during the gross parts because she's wearing headphones. My horror movie go-to is closing my eyes and covering my ears.
i watched this movie when i was like 14 or something, i'm 25 now and that achilles' heels scene stayed with me all these years. unforgettable in the worst way possible
it's not just that it gets cut, or even that they focus on it. it's the detail put into watching the injury actually tear MORE as he falls I hate his writing but he hires some hard-working fucking crew
I ended up seeing this at my uncle's house when I was about 13 or so. He had one of those awesome basements with a theater room in it, and he told me I could watch whatever I wanted because my mom thought I was old enough to know the difference between reality and made-up things. I picked this movie because the unrated cut had interesting box art. When I tell you I can still close my eyes and vividly recall the details of the torture scenes in my mind a whole decade later, I'm not kidding. Almost as traumatic as having accidentally watched Saw 2 at the drive-in when I was 6... Hm, maybe that's what wrong with me. But at least I never watched the human centipede.
Something I noticed about this movie that I'll give it credit for: it's one of the few horror movies I've seen that has a "final guy." Nearly all horror films have a final *girl,* and sometimes they'll have a final guy *and* a final girl who make it to the end, but rarely do I see ones--from this era, anyway--where it's only the guy who survives.
I remember my friends and I were going to watch this movie when we were on a weekend trip together. we watched the first 20 minutes, got bored, and watched silence of the lambs instead and I am so happy we did
My favourite hated horror movie trope is: uninteresting man in unfamiliar place meets beautiful woman who's WAY too flirty with him and he sees nothing strange about it (bonus points if she's wearing a pretty dress in an unsuitable location like the woods, and BONUS points if she doesn't say a word to him and he still goes along with it)
Same. I took a glimpse of the scene when he had to cut out her eye to save her and that grossed me out. Vowed never to come near that movie or its sequels.
Yeah, I LOATHE this film. I was SOO excited for it when it came out, then massively disappointed when the horrifying storyline got lost in the torture porn. The idea of an underground organization kidnapping tourists and selling them to be murdered is frightening - especially with the very real human trafficking organizations out there...but then the focus became, "how gross can we make it?" Green Inferno was worse because it had even less of an underlying compelling plot. I honestly have no idea how the critic rating is higher than the audience rating in this one. I'd think any self respecting critic would rip this one a new one. It was very clear that Roth chose gore shock over storytelling. It's just a big gross disappointment that people say they like to seem edgy.
I tried watching Hostel about 7 years ago, but when he started going at her eye is when I started crying and almost threw up. I can't handle stuff like that. Just no.
I actually really like the alternate ending because although it might seem more dark and vindictive at first, it actually allows him to come full circle and truly save a girl who is in trouble. Although the guy PROBABLY kept his torture and murder to his "trip", getting her away from him is undoubtedly the right move to make for her safety.
Yup. I'm with you on this. I love horror of all shades EXCEPT the horror that focuses heavily on just hurting people, especially when it's done in realistic ways.
So I think I love Eil Roth just because he just does what he wants and doesn’t care. Also I remember being taken to see this movie with a woman my dad had been seeing and my mom flipped out. She wasn’t happy and I was like “Oh my...god...more horror please.” 😂
When I was living in Italy me and a friend watched it in theaters. A couple of days before we spent a weekend in Eastern Europe. Needless to say it freaked us out and we were crazy paranoid the whole trip.
Saw this movie for the first time when I was 14, my parents didn't know what it was and I thought it looked scary I had seen the Scream movies I could handle it, OHHHH BOY WAS I WRONG!! Scared me so much that I slept in my parents bed that night.
I remember watching this movie religiously when it came out. I love the story, this shit happens, also interesting how dark the movie setting is when Paxton is on his own compared to how colorful it was when he was with his friends. Also Jay Hernandez is still so beautiful!
Fun Eli Roth Fact: In Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009), in addition to obviously playing The Bear Jew, Roth guest-directed the segments of the in-universe film Nation's Pride. Also as far as I know, Tarantino had nothing to do with the production, he and Eli are just really good friends.
And at first, he wasn't supposed to play the Bear Jew, that role was originally for Adam Sandler to play, but he dropped out due to a scheduling conflict so Roth was hired in his place.
You're right about EuroTrip: 2004 was also the year that the Abu Ghraib photographs were released and televised beheadings became an almost weekly occurrence. There was something in the water at the time, and Roth captured it as a very fucked up grand guignol satire. For that reason, I think the first two Hostel movies are brilliant.
Thank you so so much for watching these types of movies Amanda! I'm curious about these but not enough to watch them. Reading about them is not good for me either because I enjoy reading so I have an over-active imagination and sometimes the images in my head are worse than the "real" images of movies. Again, thank you!
Amanda mentioned “walk-outs” (and being fun). I saw this movie, as my GF, back at that time, wanted to see this, but no one walked-out. “Wild Things” is where I saw people walk-out from…
I'm Czech. Slightly offended, very disgusted but amused at the same time. Sorry you had to go through all that and I swear it's not so horrible here anymore.
I somehow forgot that I've seen this movie. In the theater. I remember Cabin Fever just fine but had totally erased this one from my mind. Then the video started and I was all, "this feels vaguely familiar" and then I knew what the next scene was going to be and then it just all came back to me. Holding my hands up over my eyes, totally regretting my decision and my horror fan friends being rather kind to the fact that I was clearly not handling the movie well. And I blanked all that out and just never saw another torture porn movie again. This was a wild ride of remembrance and also an amazing video!
Regardless of the real story, my personal headcanon is that Eli Roth was inspired by Eurotrip
Man, Eli Roth needs to not remake another movie again. His remake of "EuroTrip" was SO different from the original.
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Do you remember that one time Eli Roth directed a kid’s flick, The House With the Clock in the Walls
@@JeffDoyen Yeah, I enjoyed it.
Lucy Lawles in Euro trip was one of my gay sexual awakening.
The use of twilight characters as censor bars is killing me
It really made it a lot funnier
I feel dumb for not realizing that's what she was using it as lol.
omg i didn't realise they were censor bars, i thought she was just pasting them into the scene to cover characters she didn't like 😂
So my husband and I visited Bratislava and took a walking tour one day. The tour guide was this sweet college girl who actually thanked all of us for visiting because apparently between this movie and Eurotrip (which also painted Bratislava in a bad light) tourism had really suffered and dropped! The people were so friendly, the food was good and it was really cheap. Plus downtown was beautiful!!! We had a blast there and still feel bad for the locals because of these movies
I live in a very ''touristy'' part of scotland and as much as locals dislike tourists clogging up the streets and shops we need them to keep those shops open.
@@seacucumber679 for sure. Edinburgh?
@@SonnieTravels orkney islands
@@seacucumber679 Ahh Beautiful! I lived in Edinburgh for about two years. Loved it, but the tourists were sometimes a pain
@@SonnieTravels it's a true love/hate relationship lol
I repeat: Amanda has watched the Human Centipede, watched Hostel, read the After novels and watched the movies, read the 365 Days novel, the Fifty Shades trilogy including the Grey POV one... She deserves an award for this pain XD
We put her through too much
Let's give her a comedy to watch and react to.
Someone give her a hug then line up Severence... best we can do is move into the comedy horror... or just House of Wax
I mean a GOOD comedy! Also, pay for her alcohol and therapy.
The worst one is the 2nd human centipede
I was working my first job at the movie theater when this came out, it’s the only movie I remember that management absolutely did not let anyone under 18 in even if a parent was with them and we had to stand guard to make sure no kids snuck in.
I was also working at a movie theatre when this came out. We did ID checks at the door and then right before the movie started we went into the theatre we did another round of ID checks. It was bonkers
Good fucking call.
I was working my first job at a movie theater when the second one came out. Seeing Heather Matarazzo get tortured is still a very vivid memory of mine 🙃
what if they were 16/17?
"It's a good thing I love my mom, coz I clearly hate myself" MOOD
My mom is my personal super hero and idol
I feel personally attacked
I need this on a t-shirt
Noooo
My mood is more of a ‘it’s a good thing I love myself, because I hate my mom’. I mean, I love my mom but gd she fucking sucks.
“Just act like you belong, just auf weidersehen your way out”
Amanda understands the assignment
The only censor I will accept from now on is Edward
And the emojis lol
Elvis the Alien using Nic Cage is great too
We need movie ratings to be named after twilight characters
Also Nick Cage.
He's the reason i left for another reaction. I came for a violent movie, not some sissy little emo kid pasted over top of it.
My boyfriend, listening while he plays Skyrim: She sounds like she needs a hug.
Average Skyrim playing Chad
Fun story: I matched with a lawyer on some dating site and he took me to see this movie. He got way into it and wanted me to come back to his house (first date) I said no, he took it okay at the time, but then blew up my phone the next day, and my MySpace page, and later my LiveJournal. Anyway, he got picked up for human trafficking about a year later.
I'm sorry WHAT
....what?!
OMG 😳
Did you say a “Fun Story”?! 😳
"Dodging a bullet" in its purest nonliteral form
Honestly him taking the kid feels like a more satisfying ending. Villain gets emotional torture because physical pain doesn’t faze him as much.
And he took the kid from a psychopath, I mean, I also see it as protection for the kid
ok but what is he going to DO with her I mean she can't come home with him
we're all sadists for wanting Amanda to watch this abomination and honestly, she's a lowkey masochist for putting up with us 😭 love ya girl
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Abomination? It's one of the best horror movies of all time.
@@TheFourthWinchester Except that it's not.
@@Amarianee the second one is at least
@@eliroth9978 I honestly wouldn't be able to say. After the way the story got lost in the torture porn of the first one, I had no desire to watch the second one. I'm not squeamish or easily grossed out, I just hate the way the horror storyline got lost in favour of as much carnage as possible, simply for the sake of carnage. It was just disappointing. Saw has almost as much carnage, but it never loses the actual story of John testing people (or Mandee missing the point with her traps). As evidenced by Green Inferno, Roth seems to just get some kind of enjoyment out of butchering people in the most outrageous ways possible regardless of whether or not there's a real storyline steering it. I might go ahead and watch the second one someday, just don't feel like being disappointed again.
"Is Eli Roth okay?" Asking the real questions.
Eli is a very nice guy in real life
Thank you Edward Cullen for your ever-watchful protection
Literally the only time he's ever heard that...🤣
I am very grateful for it, I will say.
@Eleanor Connelly you know that makes me wonder if they ever got super bored of normal life and got wild careers like tornado chasers, or volcano watcher or if they ever go clean the ocean.
Wow. That last one is a genius idea, actually. They don't have to breathe, oil spills won't harm them, radioactivity won't harm them. I'm fairly sure they'd be able to lift whatever off the ocean floor...
"Bella, you don't understand. I censor in the sunlight. _I'm a monster."_
Alpaca?
Amanda should really make more reaction videos like this, it doesn't even have to be gross-out torture-porn movies. Her reactions are hilarious and her commentary is on point.
? She does though? That’s her whole channel
I'm from Slovakia and I work in hotel industry. I remember influx of tourists thinking hostel was based on reality. It couldn't be further from that...
Wait, when they thought this was based on reality ... what were they in Slovakia for?? "The Hostel experience" or what?? WTF 😅
And the best thing is that they didn't even film it in Slovakia 😂 and didn't even bother to change the street signs to the correct language so there are Czech signs in "Slovakia"
Did it get more bookings and more money though?
But...why?
@@alecseusalec3418 people think the titanic is fake and that Arabia is real
It took me a second viewing to realize how much of a gut-punch Katya's death is. It feels intentional: his big backstory drop is 'Yeah I always regretted seeing that girl drown', we watch him bust his bleeding butt trying to make good, and just when it looks like his arc is resolved by him saving himself and Katya...she jumps in front of a train. Ow, Eli. Ow.
her name is Kana
"I swear this is a thing where rich people pay for horrible things to be done to people"
Yeah unfortunately it is. It's called human trafficking.
:(
Eh, that's imprecise. Human trafficking is just the logistics of obtaining and transporting the people FOR horrible things to be done to them. The trafficker might not be the one actually doing the horrible things, the 'end user' as it were.
@@RobertMorgan ah, well that makes it okay then
@@RobertMorgan End User License Agreement:
If you let them go, you take their place
[Agree] [Send Location]
@@RobertMorgan bro who do you think pays the traffickers and does the acts ? it's the people who can afford it so your comment makes no sense ?
Imagine someone swapping the discs of Eurotrip and Hostel. The shock of the person who rented it.
i remember when my cousin went on a gap year in new zealand and spent most of her nights in hostels. my older sister was scandalized because she’d seen these movies, and i was scandalized because i was 11 and i had confused the words “hostel” and “brothel”. we both acted very shocked and asked her why she would do something like that.
then my cousin continued to describe her experience and i said, “oh! hostel? i thought you said you were in a brothel.”
then my other cousin said, “brothel? like, where they give soup to homeless people?”
@kshamwhizzle she thought it was french lol
This comment took me on a whole journey of joy 😂
This whole comment was a ride and I love it 😂
Omg this made me chuckle, thank you for making my morning better lol
I LOVE THAT. The fact that one of you thought that "brothel" was the more innocent term lmao
I saw this opening night in the theater. I have NEVER seen an audience go that insane as far as cheering, screaming "Yes!", "Oh yeah!", etc. as I did in the last half hour of this movie. From the chainsaw scene on, it was just a rush.
But the dialogue and idiotic scenarios dropped it to a 4 out of 10.
I never watched any Hostel movies for the same reason I never watched any Saw movies. I can handle horror movies with supernatural creatures and situations, but Hostel and Saw have people getting tortured in ways that can actually happen in the real world and I just can not.
And neither of them have any real horror elements. It’s just gross-out.
@@Dreigonix They would both still technically be considered horror. But the movie themselves don't scare me, it's the idea that something like that could actually happen to me or real people that freaks me out. Because there are no ghosts, vampires, or anything like that, just regular old twisted humans using everyday objects.
I love the Saw movies. They're so good. However, I can't watch the Hostel movies (I tried). They're just... 🤮
@@LxstinNeverland I like SAW as a pop culture phenomenon, I’d say. It makes excellent parody material, and the setups are certainly creative, though the only movie I’d say is actually any good is the first one (though SAW: The Game is _very_ much So Bad It’s Good). I am pretty excited for Spiral: From The Book Of Saw, though- they’ve implied it’s gonna be a return to the spirit of the first movie.
honestly, the plot for Saw as it goes on becomes so convoluted and difficult to follow that I'd tell people to avoid the movies just for that reason lol
Fun Fact: The reason why Quentin Tarantino and his works are mentioned so much in Hostel is due to Tarantino and Eli Roth actually being pretty chummy, with Roth even playing the Bear Jew in Inglorious Bastards. Funny how the most uplifting and heartwarming thing about Hostel is a piece of behind the scenes trivia.
Amanda talking about watching Hostel 3: "I started to have a panic attack when someone was being tortured around the eyes."
Me knowing what happens in Hostel 1: "Girl! No. Don't do it!"
Same!
That was my exact first thought
Just imagining if Amanda want to watch Hostel 2 and her reaction during the bathroom scene 😂
The only part of hostel 3 I’ve seen is a chick getting suffocated by cockroaches
Girl, I hate to break it to you, but something happens to someone's eyes in _every_ movie in the series.
"i think i can handle the chainsaw, i think im gonna be okay"
honey NO THIS IS ONE OF THE WORST SCENES
Yeah, 15 years later and the chainsaw and eye cutting are the only scenes I remember.
famous last words.
I just realized Amanda had to watch this movie twice; one: the first reaction, two: editing this video.
"Quentin Tarantino presents
Of course he does"
😭😭😭 That man is a menace, I love him
A genius menace
He’s abusive to his female actors though. He has a foot fetish so he puts gratuitous feet shots, and in Inglourious Basterds when the actress gets strangled it’s Tarantino’s actual hands in the shot
@@eileensnow6153 didn’t know that, always knew he was odd like, that’s disappointing
@@eileensnow6153 thought that was kubrick
@@eileensnow6153 the actress refused to do it unless it was tarantino
Fun fact: Roth directed _The House With a Clock In Its Walls_ a couple of years ago. Y'know, a kids' film. It's actually pretty decent.
Also, Roth's films aren't masterpieces but the guy clearly has so much love for the genre he works in I can't actually hate him/ his films.
It's so weird that he can go back and forth between a good film and then "ooh faced" and offending slovakia.
Why not? Bob Clark directed both “Black Christmas” and “A Christmas Story.”
I love his show Eli Roth's History of Horror
Oh yeah im from Slovakia and can someone tell me where all the stuff they talk about is?
"you can pay for anything"
Like dude i can't even pay for bread on a Friday because the grandmas bought all of it already
Huh, so Cookie Clicker takes place in Slovakia then.
@@TheBonkleFox yeah but only the rozky/bread roll spin off
Heh you were just late, why do you think they need all that bread Sonny boy ಡ ͜ ʖ ಡ
True pain 🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣
i said it once, i will say it a million times: Gore is not horror, being grossed out is not the same as being scared.
YES. Gore is kind of similar to jumpscares in that way- it can be effective if used well, but often is just used excessively as a lazy way to make a movie seem scarier and to get a reaction out of the audience.
She said the words “somebody’s Achilles’ tendon gets slashed” and I IMMEDIATELY noped out of the video. I’m a wimp I cannot handle this sorry 😂
I understand but I don't show ANYTHING if that helps. This video is monetized so it can't be graphic. But I truly understand
@@AmandaTheJedi I actually appreciate how censored this is. It's like, I know I can be safe watching these scary movies without having to personally deal with the gross. So, I can get the storyline and feel the vibe of how terrible it is, but all with your safe interjections and sacrifice. ⭐⭐⭐ Golden stars for you, I'm so sorry, but also thank youuuu 😭⭐
@@AmandaTheJedi I really appreciate how well you edited this. I've always wondered what this movie was about but I knew that I would never have the nerve to watch it.
@@AmandaTheJedi I LOVE CHOCOLATE!!!
@@SmileyFace123Lolz seconded for sure! I'm a total weenie when it comes to real horror movies (aka non scifi/fantasy) so I appreciate the context Amanda is giving without showing anything. The Human Centipede ep she did was nausea inducing tho; I toughed it out but it took me more than one sitting.
No I’m actually so paranoid that this actually happens, just think about how many people go missing and are never found 😖😖
I mean it probably does.
When I was travelling in Sri Lanka, me and my boyfriend started watching Hostel on a bus with headphones of course but without really knowing the movie beforehand. When the explicit scenes in the beginning started, I got uncomfortable and turned around just to see a little kid watching the movie with us through the gap between our seats. Well, we stopped the movie. Do not watch Hostel on a bus.
poor kid LMFAO
@@brightdreamsfilms3446 i think he felt lucky😂😂
@@Justice2Hearts I actually don't remember if it was a boy or a girl but it looked very interested 😂
that's just how sri lankan kids are lmaoo
@Dylan Rodrigues no dude us brown kids are brought up conservative , we take every chance we get🖐😭
Creepy dude: f*cking drills through a guys leg
Me, playing animal crossing while watching this: 👁👄👁
Well everyone knows Animal Crossing is essentially demonic anyway, what's the issue? lmao
Wait, you play games while watching YT videos?
@@VicenteTorresAliasVits multitasking!👏
@@anima9450 Hmmm... I think it's better to pay attention to the video.
@@VicenteTorresAliasVits yeah would be nice to have that much free time (:
Didn't occur to me that you were using Edward as a 'censor bar' and I genuinely thought he was calling Robert Pattinson a hog.
until I read a comment about it being a censor, I thought Amanda was just having fun inserting Edward into the film tbh
I knew that eyeball scene was going to fuck her up because it still haunts me more than any other scene I've ever watched.
Fun fact: in many EU countries, Czech rep and Slovakia included, they actually want you to give them your passport/citizen card in hostels. As someone from CZ, it didn't even occured to me that you should find this weird. In every hostel/hotel in EU I ever was, they took our citizen cards for min half an hour or checked it for info. In apartmans in Greece they took our citizen cards for an entire week, cuz they put them in a safe and forgot about it. Not that strange.
yeah it's the intent to hold onto them that's weird. hotels in the us take your ID/passport too, but only for as long as it takes to verify and register you
I think the hostel employees are keeping them in the movie, but I'm not sure
The alternate ending was by far better imo. He now has to wonder what is happening to his daughter... he knows the horrors of the world because he has committed them.
that's definitely one of the strengths of that ending, but it falls apart to me because Paxton wouldn't do anything to her (thankfully) and he'd probably just leave her at a future stop if not immediately reported by other passengers. he is a character you root for because, despite his very "American" and righteous behaviour abroad, he is not compassionless like the club members. it's cathartic in a way until you reconsider his character.
you could argue he's "snapped" and would simply see it as an eye-for-an-eye but idk, I can't see him doing that to someone else after going through that ordeal, his trauma with not saving the drowning girl when he was younger, and her being an innocent child. many were deeply upset by his fate in the sequel and I think he'd be in a much more grey area with audiences had they gone with that as the official ending.
unless the viewer would find it vengeful enough to just temporarily mess with the guy and leave her unharmed (aside from the kidnapping)... but the way the scene's cut and the context of the movie suggests otherwise.
@@washedblue my thoughts are he leaves her at a nearby stop or even shop... her father knows that and he also doesn't know who took her or where. Even taking her to a different town could take her days to get home or to get to a place to call him. Or he keeps her and gets her to America... many options all leave her father living in fear and sadness not know where she is in a city he KNOWS is dangerous for a little girl.
Ngl I didn’t really make any sense. People would notice a crying child.
If anything he's saving the daughter
@@isaacbruner65 I never said he should harm her. I said he should take her.
Each time one of the protagonists stated that they are Americans I had flashbacks to Neil Breen dramatically exclaiming "I can't do this, I'm an American, I love this country!" and had to giggle.
Your wincing is how I feel if people are cut open while awake or have their brains removed in horror movies. I have PTSD from waking up during open heart surgery as a child. So, while I love horror movies, I have some things I just can't watch. Some stuff here in this movie causes visceral reactions of fear if I watch it and the Sequel all the way through. Props to you Amanda.
that happened to you?! holy shit that's so awful, i can't imagine how terrifying it must have been
I'm so sorry that happened to you! How traumatizing.
@@brightdreamsfilms3446 Yea, I'm stuck with PTSD for life, but I'm in therapy so it's become better.
@@lilscenechick1995 Yea, no kidding. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.
@Lia Meni Yea. I'm 27 and still have nightmares sometimes.
As soon as Amanda mentioned getting freaked out by the eye thing in the third one, I was like, “oh, honey, so you're watching this one?” 😂
That ruthless gang of kids is without a doubt the best part of the movie. I watched the second movie after finding out the kids were in it again.
The improvised soccer game
I found it hilarious that she thought that was the most unrealistic part coz it was the most realistic part to me seeing as we actually have child-gangs (not a ton but they are there) here and my friend actually got robbed by one group where they forced him to remove most of his clothes and shoes in the street during the day.
@@nbucwa6621 where was that at ?
@@wikidclownchris Not to give my country a bad reputation but I live in South Africa. It doesn't happen often at all which is why we all found it so hilarious.
@@nbucwa6621 can confirm child gangs like this do exist in Slovakia.
Omg I was so confused as to why Edward Cullen was there when the characters were talking about beastility it should've been Jacob!
Well, doesn't Edward refer to Bella as a lamb?
This film is my ACTUAL nightmare fuel. Like four times a week at least.
Shall We Dance Full Movie - Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon & Jennifer Lopez Movies what movie name
I feel like any nightmare that circles back more than two times per week has earned itself some time in a therapist's office
Is it weird that I found tusk wayyy mire creepy?
Damn. I've seen this movie several times and this is the first time I've seen the version with Pax taking the kid. Here in Denmark, it was released with the other ending, both on DVD and in theaters.
I've not seen any of the Hostel movies, but almost 7 years after this movie came out I went to Venice and stayed in a hostel and everyone I knew was like, "NO OMG YOU ARE GONNA DIE!" I think the only thing that could have killed me that weekend was the mosquitos, but otherwise I encountered no other torture.
Not even Pizza overdose?
People still had a similar reaction when I went to Spain a few years ago lol
@@urbirdfriend Yup. I worked at a pilgrim's hostel and I remember overhearing a woman (I think she was American?) saying to somebody "no, this is not fucking Hostel, I'm fine".
"Pleading in German... a bold choice." Bahahaha, I love this woman.
so quirky so original
It’s one thing to subject yourself to this but making Lucy Hale watch from the corner? How could you!? 😂
Guess she figured if she was going to subject herself to this torture, then she's coming along with her.
Lucy Hale has lots of experience with acting in terrible movies and shows. This would be a cakewalk for her 😂
Don’t forget the fact that all of those pop vinyls are being forced to watch as well.
It made me laugh when you saie re: Eli Roth "he's fucked up right?" because years ago the Discovery Channel did a special with him about evil and they actually did determine his mind does not react the same to images of violence as "normal" brains do.
They also sort of reenacted the Milgram experiment. Very interesting stuff.
That sounds really interesting, do you know where I can watch that?
Oh god that movie made me afraid to even think about spending time at a public sleeping place like that
Don't worry, most Europeans are still alive. Can confirm, am European lol
@@rebel4466 Well if we're talking the ratio of dead to alive Europeans, I'm afraid to tell you that most Europeans are actually dead. 😰
@@Safiyahalishah Ever since the first Homo Sapiens came to Europe 99% of Europeans have died. Coincidence? I think not.
Nothing really happens in the hostel. It is the stupid drinking with random strangers that is really the moral of the story.
"Never trust a beautiful woman, especially if she is interested in you."
@@MaylocBrittinorum 99% of every human being that has been alive is now dead. *It's the WATER.*
It's actually a really well-thought-out slasher movie. I think it's such an interesting concept to compare sex tourism, which is not only super common in places like Amsterdam, but also encouraged, joked about, and accepted- to torture tourism. Both are forms of exploitation, and while it's hard to compare murder to legal prostitution, it can be assumed that these women are still deeply affected by those taking advantage of them. Yet, the protagonists aka clients never question it. In fact, the conversation with the annoying American client is equally crude as the ones they have when talking about the women in Amsterdam in the first half of the movie.
"Though out"* not well executed
I definitely see your point, and you make good points, but unfortunately I think it’s not that deep. Eli Roth himself uses a lot of misogynistic tropes for entertainment/titillation, and it seems that he could have thoughtlessly damaged the reputation of normal tourism in this area. So I don’t think he necessarily thought it out, so much as used the concept as an excuse.
@@adeer87 better than today's feminist horror movies like black Christmas though.
I can’t believe I got an ad while watching this. Either you covering up the gore with twilight was extremely effective or RUclips LOVES you
New policy, even with ads turned off, the most horrific thing shown, and the channel has no adsense account, RUclips can show ads and collect all the revenue. And you agreed to it.
youtube also puts ads on demonetized videos, regardless of content. Or, almost regardless. I haven't seen exceptions yet.
@@QuikVidGuy it was a joke
@@RobertMorgan it was a joke
I remember watching this after it came out when I was 18. I started feeling sick watching the torture which was odd because it never affected me before. I ended up throwing up after the eyeball scene. Turns out I had a stomach virus lol
Alternate title: Amanda tortures herself with yet another movie that I will never watch
It was stupid. You didnt miss anything.
Fun fact: One of the many meanings of the Japanese name Kanna is "mirror". Kanna jumped in front of the train after seeing her reflection.
A Turtle didn't approve of this torture you put yourself tru
Turtle,, thank you so much for attempting to bless us.
🐢🐢🐢
As a fellow Turtle, I also don't approve of this.
The worst part is that she can't cover her ears during the gross parts because she's wearing headphones. My horror movie go-to is closing my eyes and covering my ears.
Why are you watching things you can't stand seeing nor hearing?
I watched this when it was on Spike TV and when I saw it I thought, "I'm bored, I guess I'll watch it". By far one of my worst choices in life.
I find it funny that 2 is effectively the same movie just with women and then a fun twist ending. They even both have homoerotic sub plots.
i watched this movie when i was like 14 or something, i'm 25 now and that achilles' heels scene stayed with me all these years. unforgettable in the worst way possible
it's not just that it gets cut, or even that they focus on it. it's the detail put into watching the injury actually tear MORE as he falls
I hate his writing but he hires some hard-working fucking crew
I ended up seeing this at my uncle's house when I was about 13 or so. He had one of those awesome basements with a theater room in it, and he told me I could watch whatever I wanted because my mom thought I was old enough to know the difference between reality and made-up things. I picked this movie because the unrated cut had interesting box art. When I tell you I can still close my eyes and vividly recall the details of the torture scenes in my mind a whole decade later, I'm not kidding. Almost as traumatic as having accidentally watched Saw 2 at the drive-in when I was 6...
Hm, maybe that's what wrong with me. But at least I never watched the human centipede.
Oh no the 'nice area' of Slovakia is literally the town where I go to school, it's not even in Slovakia it's in the Czech Republic xdd
Krumlov?
@@janapruskova3620 yeaaaa
@@frankievertigo6336 the "amsterodam" looks suspiciously like Prague 👀
It's all good, not like Americans can tell the difference. Most of them think we still have Czechoslowakia.
@@katt.1787 Unfortunately true..
I never realized that "A House with a Clock in its Walls" was directed by Eli Roth.
And somehow, watching 50 Shades was more torture than anything in this film
I watched the 3 Hostel movies, wouldn't watch 50 Shades
Something I noticed about this movie that I'll give it credit for: it's one of the few horror movies I've seen that has a "final guy." Nearly all horror films have a final *girl,* and sometimes they'll have a final guy *and* a final girl who make it to the end, but rarely do I see ones--from this era, anyway--where it's only the guy who survives.
I'm only 5 minutes in, but had to pause so I could tell everyone how much I'm going to be saying "Of course my horse" when asked questions...
I remember my friends and I were going to watch this movie when we were on a weekend trip together. we watched the first 20 minutes, got bored, and watched silence of the lambs instead and I am so happy we did
“I swear there are people out there doing this stuff.” - Amanda “Yeah they are named Eli Roth and Quentin Tarantino.” - My Brain
no they're named the ruling .001%
“They don’t want to disco” 🤣🤣🤣 you are hilarious, Amanda!!
Petition for Amanda to do a reaction of her Eurotrip rewatch
Yeeessss
At least that doesn't have gore, or abuse, right? Save her eyes-
I love your pfp :')
My favourite hated horror movie trope is: uninteresting man in unfamiliar place meets beautiful woman who's WAY too flirty with him and he sees nothing strange about it (bonus points if she's wearing a pretty dress in an unsuitable location like the woods, and BONUS points if she doesn't say a word to him and he still goes along with it)
I've made it my business to never watch this movie. This will be the closest I ever watch this movie.
Same
My dad has all of them😭
Big SAME
Same. I took a glimpse of the scene when he had to cut out her eye to save her and that grossed me out. Vowed never to come near that movie or its sequels.
Lol same. I coundnt even watch the scenes she showed. I had to cover some of em with my hand
You called it, “oh a daddy. He’ll be the first to die.” LOL! You are predicting this movie down to a tee.
As far as I’m concerned, Eli Roth’s film career starts and ends with his role in Inglourious Basterds.
Yep, he was awesome as the Bear Jew.
That head bashing was more real and horrific than whole hostel movie
He did make that one good movie with Jack Black as a wizard or whatever. That movie was okay.
@@komal146 why do you feel the need to compare the two, it's apples and oranges
To paraphrase what a celebrity once said, "If you can imagine it, it's happening somewhere in the world."
Yeah, I LOATHE this film. I was SOO excited for it when it came out, then massively disappointed when the horrifying storyline got lost in the torture porn. The idea of an underground organization kidnapping tourists and selling them to be murdered is frightening - especially with the very real human trafficking organizations out there...but then the focus became, "how gross can we make it?" Green Inferno was worse because it had even less of an underlying compelling plot. I honestly have no idea how the critic rating is higher than the audience rating in this one. I'd think any self respecting critic would rip this one a new one. It was very clear that Roth chose gore shock over storytelling. It's just a big gross disappointment that people say they like to seem edgy.
I tried watching Hostel about 7 years ago, but when he started going at her eye is when I started crying and almost threw up. I can't handle stuff like that. Just no.
I went to my cousin's house once and he had me watch "Hostel" with him.
I still haven't forgiven him.
I actually really like the alternate ending because although it might seem more dark and vindictive at first, it actually allows him to come full circle and truly save a girl who is in trouble. Although the guy PROBABLY kept his torture and murder to his "trip", getting her away from him is undoubtedly the right move to make for her safety.
The best part is the twilight characters as the censors😂
Yup. I'm with you on this. I love horror of all shades EXCEPT the horror that focuses heavily on just hurting people, especially when it's done in realistic ways.
I love the pause in the outro where she realizes that this time she's really only MOSTLY ok
Amanda singing "scotty (joshy) doesnt know" gives me life and has restored my faith in humanity
I know it doesnt makes sense but thats how i felt
My immediate reaction to the notification was "OH NO WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!"
So I think I love Eil Roth just because he just does what he wants and doesn’t care.
Also I remember being taken to see this movie with a woman my dad had been seeing and my mom flipped out. She wasn’t happy and I was like “Oh my...god...more horror please.” 😂
I remember enjoying this at 17. Then again, that was when I actively sought disturbing movies. That phase ended once I got my hands on a copy of Salo.
Oh I bet it did
When I was living in Italy me and a friend watched it in theaters. A couple of days before we spent a weekend in Eastern Europe. Needless to say it freaked us out and we were crazy paranoid the whole trip.
fun fact. I had to get therapy for my irrational and extreme fear of tendants. all thanks to this movie. love this movie.
Are you serious? 😧
What’s a tendant?
@@tobythomas3413 Google suggests that it is some kind of telecommunications company.
Seems pretty harmless, but maybe it's more scary up close?
The man screaming his daughter’s name reminds me of Naruto screaming “Sasukeeee!” 😂😂
Saw this movie for the first time when I was 14, my parents didn't know what it was and I thought it looked scary I had seen the Scream movies I could handle it, OHHHH BOY WAS I WRONG!! Scared me so much that I slept in my parents bed that night.
U mean 'wrong' right?
@@RandomSwiftie13 shoot...you're right...
@@FringedHorizon no worries mate
I remember watching this movie religiously when it came out. I love the story, this shit happens, also interesting how dark the movie setting is when Paxton is on his own compared to how colorful it was when he was with his friends. Also Jay Hernandez is still so beautiful!
Fun Eli Roth Fact: In Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009), in addition to obviously playing The Bear Jew, Roth guest-directed the segments of the in-universe film Nation's Pride. Also as far as I know, Tarantino had nothing to do with the production, he and Eli are just really good friends.
And at first, he wasn't supposed to play the Bear Jew, that role was originally for Adam Sandler to play, but he dropped out due to a scheduling conflict so Roth was hired in his place.
Eli Roth made that role so iconic, I can't even begin to imagine what Sandler would've been like. I think he would've pulled it off though.
@@tristanhartup4936 hold up, *Adam Sandler* Adam Sandler???????
@@myettechase I agree like, what?
You're right about EuroTrip: 2004 was also the year that the Abu Ghraib photographs were released and televised beheadings became an almost weekly occurrence. There was something in the water at the time, and Roth captured it as a very fucked up grand guignol satire. For that reason, I think the first two Hostel movies are brilliant.
Thank you so so much for watching these types of movies Amanda! I'm curious about these but not enough to watch them. Reading about them is not good for me either because I enjoy reading so I have an over-active imagination and sometimes the images in my head are worse than the "real" images of movies. Again, thank you!
Amanda mentioned “walk-outs” (and being fun). I saw this movie, as my GF, back at that time, wanted to see this, but no one walked-out. “Wild Things” is where I saw people walk-out from…
I'm Czech. Slightly offended, very disgusted but amused at the same time. Sorry you had to go through all that and I swear it's not so horrible here anymore.
Ecactly my feelings. I am also Czech.
"anymore" lol
I would be so happy if you decided to watch the sequels as well!
I somehow forgot that I've seen this movie. In the theater. I remember Cabin Fever just fine but had totally erased this one from my mind. Then the video started and I was all, "this feels vaguely familiar" and then I knew what the next scene was going to be and then it just all came back to me. Holding my hands up over my eyes, totally regretting my decision and my horror fan friends being rather kind to the fact that I was clearly not handling the movie well. And I blanked all that out and just never saw another torture porn movie again. This was a wild ride of remembrance and also an amazing video!
Jugs is much older than 2005. That goes back to the 80s. I didn’t even notice that when I watched this.