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I wish I was joking there's a scene where this guy and women are doing it in a plane toilet and the women takes her top off and then a snake kills the guy so my 4 year old brain thought if women take there top off near you then you'll get killed
As disturbing as "Hostel" is, there is a moment that people overlook when condemning the movie as nothing more than torture porn. Paxton jeopardizes his one chance to escape by going back for Kana. He's only met her once, and has no personal attachment to her. But he can't bring himself to leave her, even to save his own life. It's a moment of pure altruism that elevates the movie for me. Roth avoids taking the cynical, simplistic route of saying all humans are awful.
Great observation. Though human altruism peeking through a a vast disregard for life isn't uncommon in bleak horror, it's one of my favorite and most powerful types of character arc. I Have No Mouth is my favorite example, Hostel a close 2nd.
There’s a moment in the film that establishes this is not a random movement, when Paxton tells Josh an anecdote of him witnessing a young girl drowning at Lake Michigan. So he sees himself back at that very moment but now had a chance of helping that one
I never even imaged anyone not liking (like is not the correct word here, but you get the point) the movie. I always thought it was really scary because that sh*t actually happens.
@@eggnukes People prefer to just ignore anything distressful like this. So when someone puts it in front of them they get mad. Hence all the “torture porn” backlash these things get. To them if others don’t also ignore it like it doesn’t exist, they must get off on it or something.
Being tied up and tortured by an empathy lacking human being in a dark and unknown area is probably my biggest fear ever, and it makes me sad when people devalue that fear by calling it torture porn. Edit, a year later: I didn't realize I was going to start so much hassle over practically nothing
Viktor the victor there’s ways to capitalize on this aspect of horror without needing to go so in-depth with the torture and graphic imagery that this film and others like it do. Honestly calling Hostel torture porn is not nearly as illogical or unfair as you’re saying it is, it’s a movie that’s main spectacle and draw is its constant gore and torture scenes, I think when most of your film is comprised of that it loses some of its credibility as some deeper look on human trafficking or an exploitation of the fear of it that people have. Just my 2 cents
@@bdpchamp So, I've never seen this movie. I was talking more about the theme itself. And of course, it can be exploited for money, just like the jumpscare.
@JohnACorp782 1. Putting it in a movie does not make it torture porn. 2. "It's not happening regularly, so why bother being afraid?" You're saying you can't be affraid of unrealistic scenarios? You don't have a deep dark fear that wouldn't happen in real life? What about The Exorcist, Freddy Krueger, Pinhead, Jason Vorrhees, The Fly? You can't be affraid of these movies because it doesn't and wouldn't happen in the real world? Sounds like _you're_ the one who's full of shit.
The last time I went to Slovakia, in 2016, I was backpacking, and I took a city tour in Bratislava. The tour guide told me that after the release of Hostel, Slovakia's backpacker tourism dropped 80%, and it never fully recovered. Ever since, all the tour guides of the city always ask every group of backpackers to spread the word back in their home countries that Slovakia was not the way it was portrayed in Hostel. It seems sad and ironic that in the film's attempt to highlight American ignorance, it helped to make Americans (and other countries) more ignorant still to what Slovakia is like. And they didn't even film it there! For what it's worth I love Slovakia and I recommend a visit lol. Try the halušky!
When I went backpacking in Europe some of my mates were saying how they'd never stay in Hostels because of this film, it's just stupidity. They enjoyed it when we actually started
@321Ian123 And everyone ever travelled around in Eastern Europe and taken a wrong turn ending in some village getting the stare from the locals! This movie got under my skin right away.
TBH movies like Titanic or World Trade Center are scarier than most horror, being on a sinking ship in the middle of the freezing ocean, or trapped under piles of rubble, that is genuinely terrifying to me.
What scares me is that members are everywhere, you literally can’t escape, even police and doctors can be monsters inside and that puts a fear and lack of trust inside me that shook me
Thats why people who are supposed to protect us aren’t trustworthy. I suggest getting your own gun, security system, and locks. Learn survival tactics and own places where you can stay outside of your own house. Be prepared because people are fucking crazy and the pizza guy ALWAYS gets to your house faster than the police. Keep this in mind stranger.
Very true, that’s like Amber Alert or like the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. They’re monsters and actually do the opposite of what they say they do!
The real tortures of MK-ULTRA were not actually done by the CIA rather they were respected doctors and heads of psych hospitals and schools who did the real torture; fully aware of the total lack of consent from sufferers.
My boyfriend and I were travelling round Europe we went to Hungary and were approached at the train station by a man saying he had this amazing place we could stay at for a good price, he had photos and wanted us to catch a bus with him...i was horrified that my boyfriend was actually willing to go, I reminded him of hostel suffice to say we didn't go.
@@lavieenrose5954 and my suspicious nature 😂 I was also 4 months pregnant at the time so instincts were heightened. I still to this day bring this up to my partner, he saw my comment 😂 now says he wouldnt have gone really... We literally got to a bus stop with this man 🙄 all the time I was thinking what are you doing? then I'd had enough and said wtf no way.
flick24 I sure am glad about your suspicious nature 😁 (I can imagine this making good dinner party conversation 😂).. God bless you and your boyfriend and your little one ❤️
There was no mention here of Hostel's literal and metaphorical premise that the rich can and will do anything they want to the poor, with no feeling about it one way or the other. This can and might happen irl.
If you're interested in the subject, there's an amazing Brazilian thriller called Bacurau that talks about that... it's one of the most impactful movies I've ever watched
Man, this is just a perfect example of how superb your video essays are, you are able to cram so much information in such a short amount of time without making it feel convoluted or making the audience feel lost. You ask for our attention but reward it handsomely and I thank you for that
@@obi-juankenobi7176Lol no.. he was pretty positive about the film. Most critics fucking hated this movie dude xD This is like the first positive review I've seen and it made me so happy
Ghosts and monsters work much better when they represent something irl. Like how zombies in Dawn of the Dead represented the fact that we are all mindless slaves to capitalism.
I remember staying at a hostel in Australia, and trying to sleep while some jerks were watching Hostel in the common room at full blast at 2am. I kept falling asleep and waking up thinking people were actually being tortured next door.
Honestly, before this movie I had no idea what a "hostel" was and it kinda added this weird sense of... passive aggressiveness to it's tone because I kept thinking of "hostile."
When I first saw trailers for this series, I was traveling New Zealand, staying in a different hostel every 1-3 nights. I was at a hostel in Wellington and a guy was watching one of the movies in the community TV lounge. I watched with him for a little while and we chatted about the premise, but I didn't see any of them all the way through until I was safely home again.
I think Hostel also shows how these normal mundane people can easily be sadistic psychopaths. You could pass these people on the streets and not bat an eye. It's utterly chilling to hear the Dutch businessman talk so casually about almost being a surgeon and how the American client talks about torture like it's an everyday thing.
My favorite twist for a movie like this would be if one of the victims was actually a more evil and vicious killer than the club members were, the idea that no matter how evil someone may be there will always be someone worse
TheStarsDon'tDance prove it 🤷🏼♀️ afaik there's no actual evidence red rooms actually exist or that snuff films happen on the level hostel implies they do. yes people are trafficked. everyone knows that. yes those people sometimes tragically die. does a real life version of hostel exist? maybe. prove it.
@Jody Doherty I'm not gonna do yer a Kermode-style dissertation, but three main issues: acting, uneven at best, dismal at worst; little or no character development (give me a reason to care about a character's nasty 'end'); pacing - the films I've seen get rather boring after the first act. But it's not all bad - I think the phone auction in Hostel 2 is chilling (the banality of evil etc). But there are far better films in the space Roth mostly operates in e.g. Martyrs, REC, Mum & Dad, Lady Vengeance (now there's a jolly weekend).
The reason why Hostel is so disturbing for me is that I was raised in Eastern Europe and very familiar with this sense of poverty, crime, corruption and hopelessness.
Theres a difference in American poverty and eastern Europe poverty. After spending the past 3 years here, I'd rather be poor in the US. Literally potato farmers trying to get by with homes held up by 4x4 and 2x4s. Money that's worth next to nothing compared to their western neighbors.
My mom says this is her favorite horror movie because no matter how many scary parts there might be in other movies, they never can reach the fear level of something as real as this.
Actually, that was one of the triggers for making this film. Roth heard about the website, decided not to give them access to his credit card because whether it was real or not he didn't feel right about that, and decided instead that this was the premise for his next movie. Fascinating!
@@wendychavez5348 Yeah, no. Eli Roth never said anything about a credit card. He said a friend of his said he found a Thai website that stated you can pay $10,000 to simply shoot someone in the head, but when the friend went to show him the website, it wasn't there anymore. Stop making shit up.
@@jakefoster5611 I am not making it up. I remember him saying that he didn't want to share that information because, legitimate or not, they would have his credit card information, which made him uncomfortable. Perhaps he did decide to investigate further and found the site was gone--i don't recall that from the interview but it could easily be in there.
My body does this thing where If I see someone in pain, I can sorta feel it myself. So it’s hard for me to watch movies like this because I can feel everything in my nerves. It makes me sick.
Jody Doherty journaling, setting boundaries, avoiding energy vampires, meditation, spending time alone. these are a few basic ones i do sometimes. hope it helps!☺️
I just realized the tourists in Hostel act just like Logan Paul when he went to Japan and just harassed and terrified people ause he doesn't see them as human beings.
I admit that I would probably kidnap one of his family members but not to actually harm them just to Luer him to a location where I could get back at him I am unwilling to harm the innocent but I will do anything to get back at someone who has done evil to me I just won’t hurt someone who is basically good
I remember reading that Eli Roth was researching the actual shit that goes on, for Hostel, and was eventually told to drop it by some shady characters. Now I’m not a conspiracy theorist but I think that Hostel may have more truth to it than one normally thinks.
@@nothin_justchillin_killin855 i mean i wouldnt doubt that rich sociopaths do that kinda shit, BUT i think if he ever said that it was probably just to hype up his film ngl
It's actually a toe. They don't actually show the amputation, though it's clear what is happening. That's one of the most poignant scenes in Hostel Part I.
I've always enjoyed the hostel movies. Wealthy people abusing their power to an extreme is real and horrific. Sure maybe not to this extent but it's great to showcase this and play off of that fear.
I agree. The concept of being a tourist, at the mercy of locals who seemingly have a disdain for outsiders (so they won't help you even if you escape your torturers)...It's a frightening thought.
i love how the message a lot of people got from this movie was "europeans are backwards and weird and scary" rather than how scarily realistic the idea of rich people paying to torture humans for fun is
I will say though that this movie does create some stigma about traveling. When I travelled Europe, I had people referencing either Taken or Hostel. These movies, despite their intent, feed into the fear of the other and make people afraid to go outside their normal boundaries.
cause human trafficking really exists and sadly they can bribe so your not safe if you go missing..you wont be found sadly unless you have a lot of money...
Krawberry Strush the dude who wrote jaws regretted all the fear it caused. He didn’t know a lot about sharks when he wrote it and he hated how his book led to the hunting of thousands of sharks after. He was an activist for the rest of his life, if memory serves me right
@@thriftyfreebies It's actually called the Achilles tendon :) but yes lol. It really does. Pet Sematary (Original) messed me up with their version of it haha
That's the exact moment I'm always forced to stop the movie. I've tried to watch it like... 4 times already, and it's always at that point I when can't continue and dump the whole idea of watching TV for the rest of the night.
Honestly a shortened version of this video is as follows: It was made to be sickening and horrifying to truly drill into viewers minds how messed up the world can be especially with how money can buy you anything as long as you have enough of it
This reminds me, there was a show called Smallville that aired like fifteen years ago, probably more, and was a solid, accessible superhero TV show about pre-Superman Clark Kent. I say all this because I don't expect many to know what it is. Anyway, there was an actor on the show, bright, intelligent, and a great actress. Her co-stars lauded her performance, and said she was well-read and mature for her age. She was so adored by fans that DC officially made her character canon. Just a few years ago she was caught in that big European sex cult scam thing, Nxivm. Apparently she was involved quite heavily in human trafficking. Just goes to show you don't really know anyone.
I liked the guy that survived at the end. I wasn't expecting that. When he told his friend the story of how he didn't save the little girl who drowned in Lake Michigan and can still hear the mothers screams, its that memory that gave him the courage to go back inside the torture house and save the poor asian girl from the sicko guy. Sadly she didn't make it back safely but at least he tried this time.
Yeah, his style isn't what appeals to me, but I watched his recent multi-part History of Horror series and I have to say, he does have good taste in films. He cites a lot of films which I also would consider classics, which are very different from what he does himself.
7:57 I think you missed the part where the character, Josh apologizes to the guy from the train at the disco bar for being homophobic. This showed that he actually was a good person and made you care about him a lot more.
I've never been able to watch the films, but I'm so happy that someone is articulating them on my behalf. And who better than Ryan to talk me through the films
That's the problem. I was like you, and refused to watch films like cannibal holocaust and the likes, because I heard how brutal they were. Then one day I had a couple drinks and said screw it. You'd be surprised how many movies "horror" is mostly just hype, and you can actually just sit back and appreciate the acting and visual effects.
Hostel was extremely difficult to watch, it felt like I was literally living through it. Which is why it’s one of my favorite horror movies. Eli Roth is a genius, he literally makes his movies feel like an experience. Same with Green Inferno, loved that movie too
@Fauxindigo i think what he finds funny is the subject of corruption and degradation in the local governments, which is kinda widespread in central and eastern europe. I know it's kinda surreal to see problems you've experienced be brought up in media from some other country
@@nathanielbanghart1900 1. Corruption is a real thing in each and every country of the world, differing just in amount of money flowing thru it and ppl involved. 2. Just assuming that operating this kind of stuff in Central or Eastern Europe would be possible to make part of the local "corruption system" or keep it out from the unwanted central authorities' and medias' attention (by concealing it) just has made you yet another candidate for having your head checked by a psychiatrist. This is really no Mexico with its cartels' (silently cooperating with Mexican gov) "safe houses". No offence to innocent Mexicans...
In the first one there is a sex scene where a remix of "Willow's Song" plays in the background. I think it's a really cool detail, because the original song was a deceitful seduction song from "Wicker Man". Willow tries to offer herself as consolation to Howie, because he is unwittingly walking to his doom. In "Hostel", the girl who is having sex with one of the main characters is actually leading him to the slaughter in a similar way. It's a really neat piece of intertextuality.
The third one wasn’t even in Europe, just a story of a bachelor party gone wrong in Las Vegas Nevada with a plot twist that was confusing. Don’t get why was it called hostel 3.
Names have power, that is why so many unrelated movies are named as sequels, but are just films that decide to capitalize on the name of another film to boost sales.
shallendor makes me think that if it wasn’t called hostel 3 it would be titled killer Vegas, or death gambler. Cause the plot makes no sense and they aren’t even in a hostel.
Shellandor is right, look at the whole “Conjuring Universe” we’ve been given two pretty crappy movies loosely related to The Conjuring and it’s characters. I mean the Nun and La Llarona are basically the same movie. La Llarona is basically just the Nun, but spicy.
Hostel: Part III puts forwards the idea that the Elite Hunting Club has also a Vegas Branch, with a gambling theme, probably for those who don't want to do the torturing for once and just gamble on how people will be killed. On paper, it could have worked I guess but the actual execution fell way too short for me.
Ive seen all three movies and during an interview for a job i was applying for as a customer service representative for Orbitz, the interviewer asked me if ive travelled in or out of the country, i said no,not yet. He asked again if ive seen a movie or a show about going to other countries , where and what reason and i said "yes, i just finished all three parts of the movie Hostel where in 3 friends went on a trip to Slovakia and met this unfortunate events". He then asked: "what would you do if you were in their shoe to avoid that situation?" I, proudly and confidently answered: "i will not go there". I dont know if its the "confidently giving the wrong answer" that got me the job, but hey, i got hired. Thanks Hostel!😌
Roger Bart, the guy who plays one of the torturers in Hostel 2 also did the singing parts for Hercules in the Disney movie and during one of the torture scenes he screams "I'm motherfucking Hercules!" Makes me laugh every time. Anyway, goes without saying, great video Ryan, you continue to pump out banger after banger, keep it up!
I don't think the term torture porn refers only to explicit showing of torture, but rather the excitement the movie wants to give us with knowing that these characters are being tortured. It's like in slasher franchises when the people started going to them just to how Jason or Freddy was going to kill people. The difference between those slashers and Hostel is that they grew more into comedies, that were actually fun. By Nightmare III Freddy was a homicidal Bugs Bunny, Hostel never gives you anything but the torture. That's it's brand that's what it does, that's why people see it.
Being a huge horror genre fan i went to see Hostel with my best friend and his girlfriend at the time in the theater when it first debuted. And when the movie ended we all left there with a pit in our stomach that didn't go away the rest of the day! Truly disturbing but great horror movie imo. I always wanted to go to Europe, until i watched Hostel.
ymir162 to be an esteemed critic you need to be somewhat of a cinephile and be able to write clever, catchy quips about movie content. There’s no right or wrong, just popular and unpopular.
Oh Cabin Fever!! I saw that movie years ago and for ages I thought the title was Cabin the in the woods and was I confused every time people talked about Cabin in the wood because I remembered it so differently!
That's adorable. I did the same thing with 2 different Costner movies... Water World and The Postman. I was like "Is that the one where Costner delivers mail on an Ocean World?". Somehow I had merged the two over time. LMAO!
I remember watching this film when I was 12 as it was on Netflix. I’d already seen all of the saw traps on RUclips and thought that Hostel wouldn’t be as bad. I was wrong. I was very wrong.
I still remember like it was yesterday how hard the media went against Hostle. They called Roth sick and the film nothing but torture "Corn". They warned parents to never let your kids watch it, they gave cinemas a hard time about screening it, and they told anyone who would listen it wasn't worth watching. All this did is drum up even more interest for the film. It became this taboo, dark, edgy horror move everyone wanted to see.
Totally agree about Eli Roth: He provides excellent commentary and insight into the world of horror films, but his own efforts fail to meet the expectations he sets for himself by doing so
Shane Especially in regards to Green Inferno. That movie was marketed as being gorier and more upsetting than Cannibal Holocaust and while it had one really good kill scene, the whole thing fell flat.
@Filosofemsofi I think that is a bit too much of an insult. Like, Roth is a bit ignorant, and it feels like he does things he thinks subversive despite them having been done to death. But he's not a fascist white-supremanist who looks like his head is attached to a giant slug.
From what I understand, Eli Roth started making this movie not as a movie but as a documentary about a subculture that actually does capture, torture, and murder people. At some point during his making of the documentary, from what I've heard, he came to the realization that maybe he shouldn't make a documentary about people who kidnap, torture, and murder people because he might disappear next
The organization is too powerful to really be believable. It's not like the mafia or other organized crime, who have a litany of criminal activities to bolster their income and power. A company that specializes in JUST murder and body count isn't going to be able to pull in enough to support itself with just that. Not to mention it's one of the more difficult to cover up situations, since every victim depends on a string of complicit people in the chain, and the more people in a chain the overall weaker that chain becomes.
They show the police in the town are part of it, in the first one. Which is also why Paxton doesn't go to the police about it when he returns home-he just tells everyone that Josh disappeared. And, there could be high ranking officials that are part of the club. They will do what they need to do derail investigations or plant fake evidence that so-and-so was seen someplace else. People can be suspicious about what happened, but there is no evidence to follow. Not even bodies to find.
@@renatoramos8834 Why? He saw that the local police were involved. I can believe that he would be scared that other authorities were involved. Or at the very least, weren't going to believe him and also possibly accuse him of doing something since the local police were involved and could easily lie and possibly even produce evidence that he was involved somehow in his friend's death.
What truly unnerves me about 'Hostel' is the realization that the torture scenes we witness are merely a small part of a much larger, sinister operation. This isn't just a random act of violence; it's a well-oiled, capitalist business running non-stop. The organization is meticulously structured, with various roles filled to ensure the seamless delivery of its horrific service. Once trapped in their clutches, victims are rendered utterly powerless, caught in a relentless cycle of exploitation and brutality. The terror of being chased, scared, or hurt is one thing, but the chilling epiphany that to these perpetrators, your suffering is just another mundane Monday, nothing personal or unique, is profoundly disturbing. It's this ongoing, impersonal mechanism of pain and murder that adds an extra layer of horror to the entire scenario.
That scene where the guy cuts the victim's tendons on the back of his foot. I can FEEL it every time. My favorite was the second, just because of the ending. The fact she could buy her freedom, kill the torturer and get revenge. (Another example of revenge is The last house on the left (2009)).
I only watched the original The Last House on the Left (1972) version, and holy fuck the revenge scene on that is so fucked up. But satisfying to watch at the same time, iirc its way different than the 2009 remake
I just watched Hostel for the first time, I really liked like it. I wasn't really into it until the "reveal" that it's not just some serial killer, but rather an entire organization, then i found the entire store a lot more compelling
The countries were fighting to get their tourism back. Hostel lead to a massive decline in backpacker tourism and it cost them A LOT for no good reason.
funny thing, i absolutely hated saw when it came out, hostel blew me away on the other hand, it was realistic af, because i knew that topic was real and gruesome
The film is a horror masterpiece. I got to meet Eli Roth once and told him what a huge fan I am, and how I love the way Petr Janis (the German Surgeon) takes off his mask and seems to be having some kind of orgasm or climax because he is so excited. That part always disturbed me. Hostel is a masterpiece.
One of my favorite movies ever. Been for more than 10 years. Still remember how captivating the reality of this horror was when i see it when i was young.
The whole way through watching hostel I was holding back the lump in my throat, it was really devastating to watch and thinking that this probably happens to people makes me feel even worse
Not to mention that Roth/Wan made their films post 9/11, when the threat of torture seemed somewhat tangible to audiences, they both were incredibly socially relevant and really zone in on audience fears at the time. There's actually a lot to unpack from Hostel and torture porn as a whole..definitely an era of significance within horror. I wrote a whole essay on it at uni! If you want to learn more look into the work of Kevin Wetmore and horror post 9/11.
I feel like after I watched hostel I haven't been scared by any other horror movies, because they just don't have the realism factor of hostel and that scares me
@Saiyan Prince yeah, and chemtrails are a thing, reptilians control the world, vaccines cause autism, blablabla. Christianity is a horrible religion, as is any other religion. Move into the 21st century, please.
@@razalasreficul6902 Christianity isn't a religion. Everything you mocked above is correct but that statement is false. Have you even read the Bible? Clearly not.
@@wdrumz Christianity is a religion though. It involves worship of a supernatural being, and adherence to a set of doctrines based on faith. Do you think calling something a "religion" has negative connotations so you want to avoid those connotations? I don't understand why we're going to ignore basic dictionary definitions.
RUclips recommended your Scream video for me to watch after this one, and when you began talking about the motive for the killers I could only think about one line from Scream. "It's the millennium. Motives are incidental."
hostile isn't violent? the scene where that girl gets her eye burned out with the milky puss then she sees it and kills her self is literally burned into my brain and my bro is still freaked out if anyone touches his Achilles tendon. that movie gave a generation of kids ptsd.
I know it's somewhat of a cult thriller, but since that seems to be right up your alley (I was impressed by the Killing List video), would you consider making a video on Pontypool? Cheers and very good job mate!
true story. went to banff skiing on my own and stayed at a hostel for my first time. they put me in a room with 3 hot foreign young women. i couldnt believe my luck. im sitting in my bunk texting my friends about my incredible luck. one replies back "wasnt that a plot to a movie or something?"
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Snakes on a plane because when I was a kid that made me scared of naked women
I wish I was joking there's a scene where this guy and women are doing it in a plane toilet and the women takes her top off and then a snake kills the guy so my 4 year old brain thought if women take there top off near you then you'll get killed
Black Sheep please
A video of donnie darko
Evil ed , a beginners guide to snuff or dr caligari or why not doghouse
Human trafficking is honestly one of the few things in horror that genuinely un-nerves me.
Jack Torrance I live in Georgia. Atlanta (its state capitol) is one of the biggest human trafficking spots in the U.S.A...I don’t sleep
Same. Also cults.
KnowledgeOfTheTimes You and your loved ones stay safe my G.
Seriously! And seeing the fact that even police officers are being bought off to look away is terrifying. How are you supposed to get help then?
@@brainrich1358 the socialist rifle association might interest you
As disturbing as "Hostel" is, there is a moment that people overlook when condemning the movie as nothing more than torture porn. Paxton jeopardizes his one chance to escape by going back for Kana. He's only met her once, and has no personal attachment to her. But he can't bring himself to leave her, even to save his own life. It's a moment of pure altruism that elevates the movie for me. Roth avoids taking the cynical, simplistic route of saying all humans are awful.
Great observation. Though human altruism peeking through a a vast disregard for life isn't uncommon in bleak horror, it's one of my favorite and most powerful types of character arc. I Have No Mouth is my favorite example, Hostel a close 2nd.
There’s a moment in the film that establishes this is not a random movement, when Paxton tells Josh an anecdote of him witnessing a young girl drowning at Lake Michigan. So he sees himself back at that very moment but now had a chance of helping that one
Paxton is the GOAT, they really did him dirty in the second film. Just plain lazy story writing in my opinion.
I never even imaged anyone not liking (like is not the correct word here, but you get the point) the movie. I always thought it was really scary because that sh*t actually happens.
@@eggnukes People prefer to just ignore anything distressful like this. So when someone puts it in front of them they get mad. Hence all the “torture porn” backlash these things get. To them if others don’t also ignore it like it doesn’t exist, they must get off on it or something.
Being tied up and tortured by an empathy lacking human being in a dark and unknown area is probably my biggest fear ever, and it makes me sad when people devalue that fear by calling it torture porn.
Edit, a year later: I didn't realize I was going to start so much hassle over practically nothing
It's only torture porn if you are into it. It is a fear if you actually fear it
Viktor the victor there’s ways to capitalize on this aspect of horror without needing to go so in-depth with the torture and graphic imagery that this film and others like it do. Honestly calling Hostel torture porn is not nearly as illogical or unfair as you’re saying it is, it’s a movie that’s main spectacle and draw is its constant gore and torture scenes, I think when most of your film is comprised of that it loses some of its credibility as some deeper look on human trafficking or an exploitation of the fear of it that people have. Just my 2 cents
@@bdpchamp
So, I've never seen this movie. I was talking more about the theme itself. And of course, it can be exploited for money, just like the jumpscare.
@JohnACorp782
1. Putting it in a movie does not make it torture porn.
2. "It's not happening regularly, so why bother being afraid?"
You're saying you can't be affraid of unrealistic scenarios? You don't have a deep dark fear that wouldn't happen in real life? What about The Exorcist, Freddy Krueger, Pinhead, Jason Vorrhees, The Fly? You can't be affraid of these movies because it doesn't and wouldn't happen in the real world? Sounds like _you're_ the one who's full of shit.
@@viktorthevictor6240 Oh snap!
The last time I went to Slovakia, in 2016, I was backpacking, and I took a city tour in Bratislava. The tour guide told me that after the release of Hostel, Slovakia's backpacker tourism dropped 80%, and it never fully recovered. Ever since, all the tour guides of the city always ask every group of backpackers to spread the word back in their home countries that Slovakia was not the way it was portrayed in Hostel. It seems sad and ironic that in the film's attempt to highlight American ignorance, it helped to make Americans (and other countries) more ignorant still to what Slovakia is like. And they didn't even film it there! For what it's worth I love Slovakia and I recommend a visit lol. Try the halušky!
This sounds like something a human trafficker would say 😒
0llieftw 👀
@@0llieftw 😅
I always wanted to go because of the Eurotrip movie
When I went backpacking in Europe some of my mates were saying how they'd never stay in Hostels because of this film, it's just stupidity. They enjoyed it when we actually started
The scariest movies are always the ones that really could happen.
Elite do in real life
@321Ian123 And everyone ever travelled around in Eastern Europe and taken a wrong turn ending in some village getting the stare from the locals! This movie got under my skin right away.
Or do happen
This is why attack of the serial killer tomatoes is the scariest movie.
TBH movies like Titanic or World Trade Center are scarier than most horror, being on a sinking ship in the middle of the freezing ocean, or trapped under piles of rubble, that is genuinely terrifying to me.
What scares me is that members are everywhere, you literally can’t escape, even police and doctors can be monsters inside and that puts a fear and lack of trust inside me that shook me
Thats why people who are supposed to protect us aren’t trustworthy. I suggest getting your own gun, security system, and locks. Learn survival tactics and own places where you can stay outside of your own house. Be prepared because people are fucking crazy and the pizza guy ALWAYS gets to your house faster than the police. Keep this in mind stranger.
If there werent monsters in public office life would be paradise number 1
Very true, that’s like Amber Alert or like the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. They’re monsters and actually do the opposite of what they say they do!
The real tortures of MK-ULTRA were not actually done by the CIA rather they were respected doctors and heads of psych hospitals and schools who did the real torture; fully aware of the total lack of consent from sufferers.
What really killed me when I saw the movies in cinema was this feeling of total powerlessness
I sort of watched the second one with friends one time. I was extremely uncomfortable about the end.
And everything else in-between.
2nd one was great
:(
Agreed. I had to listen to 3 full Beatles albums afterward to cheer up
What got me is that something like this was very possible!
All I'm saying is that it took less than 10 seconds after Quentin Tarantino was mentioned for there to be a foot on screen
Oh I'm sorry. Did that break your concentration?
@@Gemnist98 that was very aggressive, are you maybe suppressing some inner feelings about feet?
LMAO I thought the same thing
@@SamMuu219 Man, I gotta have an opinion.
And that includes making Pulp Fiction references whenever I feel like it.
It's pretty well known that Quentin Tarantino has a foot fetish
My boyfriend and I were travelling round Europe we went to Hungary and were approached at the train station by a man saying he had this amazing place we could stay at for a good price, he had photos and wanted us to catch a bus with him...i was horrified that my boyfriend was actually willing to go, I reminded him of hostel suffice to say we didn't go.
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This film saved your life
@@lavieenrose5954 and my suspicious nature 😂 I was also 4 months pregnant at the time so instincts were heightened. I still to this day bring this up to my partner, he saw my comment 😂 now says he wouldnt have gone really... We literally got to a bus stop with this man 🙄 all the time I was thinking what are you doing? then I'd had enough and said wtf no way.
flick24
I sure am glad about your suspicious nature 😁 (I can imagine this making good dinner party conversation 😂)..
God bless you and your boyfriend and your little one ❤️
Very smart dude: oh a weirdly persistent stranger in a very remote foreign country with a too good to be true deal, what could go wrong? 😆
There was no mention here of Hostel's literal and metaphorical premise that the rich can and will do anything they want to the poor, with no feeling about it one way or the other.
This can and might happen irl.
If you're interested in the subject, there's an amazing Brazilian thriller called Bacurau that talks about that... it's one of the most impactful movies I've ever watched
How does it have anything to do with the left?
It is happening
It most definitely does. It’s sad that some people chose to think the elite are lizard people, sometimes the most disgusting things are just the rich.
@Erica this sounds like a Slaaneshi cult. Someone, call the inquisition
Man, this is just a perfect example of how superb your video essays are, you are able to cram so much information in such a short amount of time without making it feel convoluted or making the audience feel lost. You ask for our attention but reward it handsomely and I thank you for that
He litterly just copies director commentaries and what every other film critic has already said about it, its really not that original...
@@obi-juankenobi7176Lol no.. he was pretty positive about the film. Most critics fucking hated this movie dude xD This is like the first positive review I've seen and it made me so happy
Ghosts and Monsters = Meh.
things that happen everyday and at the highest echelons of our society = true terror
Would mixing those two together be better or worse? Asking for a friend...
@@canaisyoung3601 like biden sniffing ghosts?
Probably in nicer buildings.
SERIOUSLY
Ghosts and monsters work much better when they represent something irl. Like how zombies in Dawn of the Dead represented the fact that we are all mindless slaves to capitalism.
*Hostels in Slovakia exist*
Eli Roth: i am about to end this man's whole career
@A C ok boomer
@A C who even are you and why do you keep saying that
@A C nah it's crazy over there
@A C Haven't I seen you some where before...? small world. My bad for calling you a genius.
A C shitholes that can afford nice things, thank you
If Jaws scared you into not going into the Ocean, Hostel scared you into not going to Hostels.
"It does for eastern Europe what Jaws did to the ocean..."
Hostel scared me into not wanting to travel overseas.
Hostels are for plebs and junkies
Nic Winstead Art I didn’t need this movie for that.
well help me, i go to hungary on sunday and i sleep in a hostel.
I remember staying at a hostel in Australia, and trying to sleep while some jerks were watching Hostel in the common room at full blast at 2am. I kept falling asleep and waking up thinking people were actually being tortured next door.
Man that sucks
That's so messed up but kind of funny
I would've checked out in slept in my truck
Honestly, before this movie I had no idea what a "hostel" was and it kinda added this weird sense of... passive aggressiveness to it's tone because I kept thinking of "hostile."
I also felt that the closeness between hostel and hostile made the movie appear far more grisly beyond the premise.
There is hostel porn
When I first saw trailers for this series, I was traveling New Zealand, staying in a different hostel every 1-3 nights. I was at a hostel in Wellington and a guy was watching one of the movies in the community TV lounge. I watched with him for a little while and we chatted about the premise, but I didn't see any of them all the way through until I was safely home again.
Manhunt is very similar like Hostel
Haha me too! Learned what a hostel was from this movie
I think Hostel also shows how these normal mundane people can easily be sadistic psychopaths. You could pass these people on the streets and not bat an eye. It's utterly chilling to hear the Dutch businessman talk so casually about almost being a surgeon and how the American client talks about torture like it's an everyday thing.
My favorite twist for a movie like this would be if one of the victims was actually a more evil and vicious killer than the club members were, the idea that no matter how evil someone may be there will always be someone worse
kamenriderreaper well she did cut of his dick.
And feed it to the dogs...
Toward the end of Hostel II she figures things out and does exactly that in exchange for her own life.
Try the new movie "The Hunt (2020)" which I hope Ryan covers. Same premise, different story, different narrative
@@donkylefernandez4680 i liked this movie
My mom refers to this movie as "the one time Tarantino steered me wrong."
BEEELEEE lol
Not seen death proof then
It's not really a mom movie lol
*MIDDLE AGED 100*
@@mmabennyj Death Proof is perfect tho
Every video of yours is a treat to watch!
The whole "it could" and "might happen" comments kill me because all over the world, things like this DO happen.
True espeassealy in un developed countries and countries the US has F**k ed in like most of South America
@@a.n.l.aantineoliberalismas4504 *especially
such as the prisoners of ISIS
TheStarsDon'tDance prove it 🤷🏼♀️ afaik there's no actual evidence red rooms actually exist or that snuff films happen on the level hostel implies they do. yes people are trafficked. everyone knows that. yes those people sometimes tragically die. does a real life version of hostel exist? maybe. prove it.
@@bexb3557 well, if u ever went on bestgore while it was still up you would’ve seen plenty of it for free, people definitely do it for money
Like almost all Roth films: interesting set-up; terrible execution. I never regret watching his films; I just never re-watch them.
His film's use to be ok now they are dogshit.
As in “execution”
@Jody Doherty I'm not gonna do yer a Kermode-style dissertation, but three main issues: acting, uneven at best, dismal at worst; little or no character development (give me a reason to care about a character's nasty 'end'); pacing - the films I've seen get rather boring after the first act. But it's not all bad - I think the phone auction in Hostel 2 is chilling (the banality of evil etc). But there are far better films in the space Roth mostly operates in e.g. Martyrs, REC, Mum & Dad, Lady Vengeance (now there's a jolly weekend).
I thought Haunt was pretty good.
and i oop
The reason why Hostel is so disturbing for me is that I was raised in Eastern Europe and very familiar with this sense of poverty, crime, corruption and hopelessness.
Theres a difference in American poverty and eastern Europe poverty. After spending the past 3 years here, I'd rather be poor in the US. Literally potato farmers trying to get by with homes held up by 4x4 and 2x4s. Money that's worth next to nothing compared to their western neighbors.
@@erikjohnson7141 that's interesting,where did you live?
Real life Borats!
Poverty crime and corruption are worldwide but will not always be worldwide
America has no form of welfare or social security so personally I would want to live in the US full stop
My mom says this is her favorite horror movie because no matter how many scary parts there might be in other movies, they never can reach the fear level of something as real as this.
The scary thing is, you know that there is a club just like this that 100% exists.
Actually, that was one of the triggers for making this film. Roth heard about the website, decided not to give them access to his credit card because whether it was real or not he didn't feel right about that, and decided instead that this was the premise for his next movie. Fascinating!
@@wendychavez5348 Yeah, no. Eli Roth never said anything about a credit card. He said a friend of his said he found a Thai website that stated you can pay $10,000 to simply shoot someone in the head, but when the friend went to show him the website, it wasn't there anymore. Stop making shit up.
@@jakefoster5611 I am not making it up. I remember him saying that he didn't want to share that information because, legitimate or not, they would have his credit card information, which made him uncomfortable. Perhaps he did decide to investigate further and found the site was gone--i don't recall that from the interview but it could easily be in there.
YEP!
Club(s)
hostel to this day still remains one of those movies i was definitely too young to watch 😭
How old were you when you watched it?
Bruh I'm 12 and I watched the 2nd and first one on youtube
NV3S bruh, I’m 14 and I haven’t watched them because I’ve never heard of them until this popped up in my recommendations
When i was younger, i shared a room with my older brother, and i was about 7 when he put this on
I was 9 or 10 when I first saw this and I will never ever forget the image of that asian lady's nose being cut off
The eyeball scene at the end sent my body into shock the first time i watched it
My body does this thing where If I see someone in pain, I can sorta feel it myself. So it’s hard for me to watch movies like this because I can feel everything in my nerves. It makes me sick.
It's called empathy.
You are an empath look it up and you can find ways to protect yourself
Same
yeah, especially the neck
Jody Doherty journaling, setting boundaries, avoiding energy vampires, meditation, spending time alone. these are a few basic ones i do sometimes. hope it helps!☺️
I often confuse Eli Roth with Zachary Quinto
Hector it’s the eyebrows
@@moviemoth4192 makes sense 🤔
Hector _They do look eerily similar_
Yes! Glad I wasn't the only one thinking this.
Except Quinto is very gay and Roth is... muddy on that topic in terms of POV
My dad is always like: “you think [horror movie] is scary? Wait til you see Hostel!”
Lol I was like that after watching that movie, back in 2005 when I knew nothing better haha
I just realized the tourists in Hostel act just like Logan Paul when he went to Japan and just harassed and terrified people ause he doesn't see them as human beings.
TheNamelessNarrator plot twist Logan Paul watched hostel as a guide on how to behave outside of the us.
Who is Logan Paul?
@@paulsmith3128 a shitbag.
thefiregodzapp I can imagine him doing that🤣
@@thefiregodzapp Nah he's every bit of a dickhead when he is in the us.
In the alternate ending the main character kidnaps the daughter of the Dutch businessman.
In the original screenplay, Paxton slits the girl's throat but Eli Roth decided against it because it didn't feel like the character would do that.
lol, since when are Dutch businessman so rich?
@Kenura Medagedara In the original he kills the dutch bussiness man, in the alternate ending he kidnaps his daughter.
I admit that I would probably kidnap one of his family members but not to actually harm them just to Luer him to a location where I could get back at him I am unwilling to harm the innocent but I will do anything to get back at someone who has done evil to me I just won’t hurt someone who is basically good
I remember reading that Eli Roth was researching the actual shit that goes on, for Hostel, and was eventually told to drop it by some shady characters. Now I’m not a conspiracy theorist but I think that Hostel may have more truth to it than one normally thinks.
Oh, you mean kind of like Kubrick and the Illuminati with "Eyes Wide Shut?"
Yeah, he said he got the idea from a legitimate organisation where people pay to kill tourists. Not that you could verify something like that
@@nothin_justchillin_killin855 i mean i wouldnt doubt that rich sociopaths do that kinda shit, BUT i think if he ever said that it was probably just to hype up his film ngl
He did do research on it. In fact he used to do research for other directors before he became a director
Man of course 3rd world countries are extremely poor and human trafficking and organ trafficking is a way to make big money no shit.
I saw that finger in the pliers and immediately decided "I think im gonna open another tab and just listen to this video."
It's actually a toe. They don't actually show the amputation, though it's clear what is happening. That's one of the most poignant scenes in Hostel Part I.
And they were bolt cutters. That scene is still one of the few that makes me cringe
I have been listening while playing Halo mainly for this reason
I've always enjoyed the hostel movies. Wealthy people abusing their power to an extreme is real and horrific. Sure maybe not to this extent but it's great to showcase this and play off of that fear.
I agree. The concept of being a tourist, at the mercy of locals who seemingly have a disdain for outsiders (so they won't help you even if you escape your torturers)...It's a frightening thought.
Bahahahaha you don't think this is real? Wait until you find out what the Americans have been up to for years! You'll never sleep again!!!
@@adamdombrowski1949 I never said I don't I just said it's not as simplistic as this.
@@chrisblogs5115 very true bro my bad!
@@chief_mourner salo? I've seen parts of it
i love how the message a lot of people got from this movie was "europeans are backwards and weird and scary" rather than how scarily realistic the idea of rich people paying to torture humans for fun is
I will say though that this movie does create some stigma about traveling. When I travelled Europe, I had people referencing either Taken or Hostel. These movies, despite their intent, feed into the fear of the other and make people afraid to go outside their normal boundaries.
cause human trafficking really exists and sadly they can bribe so your not safe if you go missing..you wont be found sadly unless you have a lot of money...
Asmosis Jones I was with you till you got all hyperbolic.
Stereotypes don't come from nowhere
I mean, don’t all horror movies do that? Hell, Jaws is basically responsible for the mass fear of sharks
Krawberry Strush the dude who wrote jaws regretted all the fear it caused. He didn’t know a lot about sharks when he wrote it and he hated how his book led to the hunting of thousands of sharks after. He was an activist for the rest of his life, if memory serves me right
I remember the ankle slitting scene messed me up for days. Just thinking about it makes me feel ill.
I was really young when I watched this movie and all I remember from it was that scene. 😖
Brings a quite literal meaning to Achilles heel, right?
@@thriftyfreebies It's actually called the Achilles tendon :) but yes lol. It really does.
Pet Sematary (Original) messed me up with their version of it haha
That's the exact moment I'm always forced to stop the movie. I've tried to watch it like... 4 times already, and it's always at that point I when can't continue and dump the whole idea of watching TV for the rest of the night.
@@Chiickiienuggiies yes but he refers to the myth...
Honestly a shortened version of this video is as follows:
It was made to be sickening and horrifying to truly drill into viewers minds how messed up the world can be especially with how money can buy you anything as long as you have enough of it
This reminds me, there was a show called Smallville that aired like fifteen years ago, probably more, and was a solid, accessible superhero TV show about pre-Superman Clark Kent. I say all this because I don't expect many to know what it is.
Anyway, there was an actor on the show, bright, intelligent, and a great actress. Her co-stars lauded her performance, and said she was well-read and mature for her age. She was so adored by fans that DC officially made her character canon.
Just a few years ago she was caught in that big European sex cult scam thing, Nxivm. Apparently she was involved quite heavily in human trafficking. Just goes to show you don't really know anyone.
Still can't believe it
Harrison Smith most of us know what smallville is and what happened with allison mack
welivedadream I doubt that
That shit was bananas.
I knew what Smallville was but the trafficking thing is news to me
Also, is it just me or is there a distinct lack of Cronenberg on this channel?
Soon child, soon
Hell yeah. Ryan could make a great video talking about The Brood I bet.
Now I gotta see Ryan talk about Videodrome someday! :D
Naked Lunch!
Existenz or A History Of Violence
I liked the guy that survived at the end. I wasn't expecting that. When he told his friend the story of how he didn't save the little girl who drowned in Lake Michigan and can still hear the mothers screams, its that memory that gave him the courage to go back inside the torture house and save the poor asian girl from the sicko guy. Sadly she didn't make it back safely but at least he tried this time.
Just for the record, Louis Litt being a part-time torturer in Slovakia is canon in the Suits universe. You can't deny it. It just works.
Honestly I don't like his movies but he was great in Inglorious Busterds. The way he said Anthonio Marghareti in that movie makes me laugh every time
Yeah, his style isn't what appeals to me, but I watched his recent multi-part History of Horror series and I have to say, he does have good taste in films. He cites a lot of films which I also would consider classics, which are very different from what he does himself.
@Jack That woulda been fucking great
His laugh while hes baseball-batting Nazis woulda been extraordinary.
"Hahaha SHUT UP"
*Smack*
7:57 I think you missed the part where the character, Josh apologizes to the guy from the train at the disco bar for being homophobic. This showed that he actually was a good person and made you care about him a lot more.
I felt sorry for Josh when he died.
Homophobic? For not letting the guy touch him? That's sick
It Wasn’t homophobic for him to not let somebody touch him unexpectedly
Homophobia doesn’t exist
@@aplace5791 …
I've never been able to watch the films, but I'm so happy that someone is articulating them on my behalf. And who better than Ryan to talk me through the films
That's the problem. I was like you, and refused to watch films like cannibal holocaust and the likes, because I heard how brutal they were. Then one day I had a couple drinks and said screw it. You'd be surprised how many movies "horror" is mostly just hype, and you can actually just sit back and appreciate the acting and visual effects.
I’d love to see a video of you covering Battle Royale and Train to Busan.
Second on Train to Busan!
Train to Busan would be good. I personally thought the ending flopped, but the rest was done well.
The movie is so overhyped
@@user-mb9nm7bq5e Train to Bussan is one of the extremely few zombie films done in a serious manner thats actually good out of YEARS of shit.
Yes to first, no to second.
Hostel was extremely difficult to watch, it felt like I was literally living through it. Which is why it’s one of my favorite horror movies. Eli Roth is a genius, he literally makes his movies feel like an experience. Same with Green Inferno, loved that movie too
In 7th grade I got kicked out of the theater 3 times trying to see Hostel. They had theaters locked down for that movie lol
Same i acualley liked both 1 & 2 becuase there is nothing like him
TIME TO DUEL YAMI is
Lmao.
I'm from Slovakia the setting of the movie and for me it's like a comedy.
No it's not they probably is crazy
@Fauxindigo i think what he finds funny is the subject of corruption and degradation in the local governments, which is kinda widespread in central and eastern europe. I know it's kinda surreal to see problems you've experienced be brought up in media from some other country
@@nathanielbanghart1900
1. Corruption is a real thing in each and every country of the world, differing just in amount of money flowing thru it and ppl involved.
2. Just assuming that operating this kind of stuff in Central or Eastern Europe would be possible to make part of the local "corruption system" or keep it out from the unwanted central authorities' and medias' attention (by concealing it) just has made you yet another candidate for having your head checked by a psychiatrist. This is really no Mexico with its cartels' (silently cooperating with Mexican gov) "safe houses". No offence to innocent Mexicans...
In the first one there is a sex scene where a remix of "Willow's Song" plays in the background. I think it's a really cool detail, because the original song was a deceitful seduction song from "Wicker Man". Willow tries to offer herself as consolation to Howie, because he is unwittingly walking to his doom. In "Hostel", the girl who is having sex with one of the main characters is actually leading him to the slaughter in a similar way. It's a really neat piece of intertextuality.
You said it. He doesn't live up to the hype. Whatever is deep about him was borrowed.
The third one wasn’t even in Europe, just a story of a bachelor party gone wrong in Las Vegas Nevada with a plot twist that was confusing. Don’t get why was it called hostel 3.
Names have power, that is why so many unrelated movies are named as sequels, but are just films that decide to capitalize on the name of another film to boost sales.
shallendor makes me think that if it wasn’t called hostel 3 it would be titled killer Vegas, or death gambler. Cause the plot makes no sense and they aren’t even in a hostel.
Shellandor is right, look at the whole “Conjuring Universe” we’ve been given two pretty crappy movies loosely related to The Conjuring and it’s characters. I mean the Nun and La Llarona are basically the same movie. La Llarona is basically just the Nun, but spicy.
Hostel Part 3 was Elite Hunting Vegas Chapter. That is why it was Hostel Part 3 and it was awesome as fuck
Hostel: Part III puts forwards the idea that the Elite Hunting Club has also a Vegas Branch, with a gambling theme, probably for those who don't want to do the torturing for once and just gamble on how people will be killed. On paper, it could have worked I guess but the actual execution fell way too short for me.
Ive seen all three movies and during an interview for a job i was applying for as a customer service representative for Orbitz, the interviewer asked me if ive travelled in or out of the country, i said no,not yet. He asked again if ive seen a movie or a show about going to other countries , where and what reason and i said "yes, i just finished all three parts of the movie Hostel where in 3 friends went on a trip to Slovakia and met this unfortunate events". He then asked: "what would you do if you were in their shoe to avoid that situation?"
I, proudly and confidently answered: "i will not go there".
I dont know if its the "confidently giving the wrong answer" that got me the job, but hey, i got hired. Thanks Hostel!😌
"hunt fer poosie"
Roger Bart, the guy who plays one of the torturers in Hostel 2 also did the singing parts for Hercules in the Disney movie and during one of the torture scenes he screams "I'm motherfucking Hercules!" Makes me laugh every time. Anyway, goes without saying, great video Ryan, you continue to pump out banger after banger, keep it up!
I went looking for someone commenting this. His part in Hostel 2 is quite salient in my mind.
Part 2 should’ve just been about a client trying to escape being killed for violating his contract and NOT KILL PAXTON
I don't think the term torture porn refers only to explicit showing of torture, but rather the excitement the movie wants to give us with knowing that these characters are being tortured.
It's like in slasher franchises when the people started going to them just to how Jason or Freddy was going to kill people. The difference between those slashers and Hostel is that they grew more into comedies, that were actually fun. By Nightmare III Freddy was a homicidal Bugs Bunny, Hostel never gives you anything but the torture. That's it's brand that's what it does, that's why people see it.
If you have watched only hostel 1 and 2, don't watch hostel 3, extremely disappointing low budget crap
baccy81 I read this comment too late, what a waste of time tbh
@@Melvin_499 ha ha I hope u didn't buy the DVD cheers
Hostel 3 is the funniest of the lot!!!
@@nicolasmarkham9027
It doesn't even have anything to do with hostels at all, plus anything about las Vegas sucks
@@nicolasmarkham9027 Agreed, that ending was hilarious.
Being a huge horror genre fan i went to see Hostel with my best friend and his girlfriend at the time in the theater when it first debuted. And when the movie ended we all left there with a pit in our stomach that didn't go away the rest of the day! Truly disturbing but great horror movie imo. I always wanted to go to Europe, until i watched Hostel.
Can we all agree critics don’t know to how rate movies
Imagine unironically thinking gore porn is misunderstood.
Strangely, there's no real school for it. Everybody that does film critique pretty much WINGS it!
ymir162 to be an esteemed critic you need to be somewhat of a cinephile and be able to write clever, catchy quips about movie content. There’s no right or wrong, just popular and unpopular.
@@Imperium83 you could say the same about CP considering critics are defending and praising cuties.
"CUTIES" has entered the chat
John wick vs hostel would be interesting
More like The Punisher vs Hostel
Well, John Wick better be prepared
Oh Cabin Fever!! I saw that movie years ago and for ages I thought the title was Cabin the in the woods and was I confused every time people talked about Cabin in the wood because I remembered it so differently!
Same
That's adorable. I did the same thing with 2 different Costner movies... Water World and The Postman. I was like "Is that the one where Costner delivers mail on an Ocean World?". Somehow I had merged the two over time. LMAO!
I remember watching this film when I was 12 as it was on Netflix.
I’d already seen all of the saw traps on RUclips and thought that Hostel wouldn’t be as bad.
I was wrong.
I was very wrong.
I still remember like it was yesterday how hard the media went against Hostle. They called Roth sick and the film nothing but torture "Corn". They warned parents to never let your kids watch it, they gave cinemas a hard time about screening it, and they told anyone who would listen it wasn't worth watching. All this did is drum up even more interest for the film. It became this taboo, dark, edgy horror move everyone wanted to see.
Totally agree about Eli Roth: He provides excellent commentary and insight into the world of horror films, but his own efforts fail to meet the expectations he sets for himself by doing so
Shane Especially in regards to Green Inferno. That movie was marketed as being gorier and more upsetting than Cannibal Holocaust and while it had one really good kill scene, the whole thing fell flat.
Yeah, in a lot of ways, it's even less subversive than the decades old inspirations he took.
I don't even dislike the movie, but it 's a bit weak
Filosofemsofi Nope Stefan Molyneaux is just an all around total piece of shit; a real waste of human life.
@Filosofemsofi I think that is a bit too much of an insult. Like, Roth is a bit ignorant, and it feels like he does things he thinks subversive despite them having been done to death.
But he's not a fascist white-supremanist who looks like his head is attached to a giant slug.
Watching in Chilli Hostel, Prague right now.
Be safe!
please be safe! 😬
Prague is beautiful - have a good time!
I just came back from a Hostel in Prague last Tuesday
Captain Cain nice! Beautiful city, amazing food and wonderful people. Everyone was helpful and accommodating to us.
From what I understand, Eli Roth started making this movie not as a movie but as a documentary about a subculture that actually does capture, torture, and murder people. At some point during his making of the documentary, from what I've heard, he came to the realization that maybe he shouldn't make a documentary about people who kidnap, torture, and murder people because he might disappear next
Yeah, we can’t realize what disturbing things happening on this world...
The organization is too powerful to really be believable. It's not like the mafia or other organized crime, who have a litany of criminal activities to bolster their income and power.
A company that specializes in JUST murder and body count isn't going to be able to pull in enough to support itself with just that. Not to mention it's one of the more difficult to cover up situations, since every victim depends on a string of complicit people in the chain, and the more people in a chain the overall weaker that chain becomes.
Uh, this type of shit DOES happen in our world
*If you think it's easy to track them down, why do over 100,000 children kidnapped and never found in the UK?*
They show the police in the town are part of it, in the first one. Which is also why Paxton doesn't go to the police about it when he returns home-he just tells everyone that Josh disappeared. And, there could be high ranking officials that are part of the club. They will do what they need to do derail investigations or plant fake evidence that so-and-so was seen someplace else. People can be suspicious about what happened, but there is no evidence to follow. Not even bodies to find.
@@rebeccawilliamson1978 It's nonsensical that he doesn't tell the police.
@@renatoramos8834 Why? He saw that the local police were involved. I can believe that he would be scared that other authorities were involved. Or at the very least, weren't going to believe him and also possibly accuse him of doing something since the local police were involved and could easily lie and possibly even produce evidence that he was involved somehow in his friend's death.
What truly unnerves me about 'Hostel' is the realization that the torture scenes we witness are merely a small part of a much larger, sinister operation. This isn't just a random act of violence; it's a well-oiled, capitalist business running non-stop. The organization is meticulously structured, with various roles filled to ensure the seamless delivery of its horrific service. Once trapped in their clutches, victims are rendered utterly powerless, caught in a relentless cycle of exploitation and brutality. The terror of being chased, scared, or hurt is one thing, but the chilling epiphany that to these perpetrators, your suffering is just another mundane Monday, nothing personal or unique, is profoundly disturbing. It's this ongoing, impersonal mechanism of pain and murder that adds an extra layer of horror to the entire scenario.
That scene where the guy cuts the victim's tendons on the back of his foot. I can FEEL it every time.
My favorite was the second, just because of the ending. The fact she could buy her freedom, kill the torturer and get revenge. (Another example of revenge is The last house on the left (2009)).
I only watched the original The Last House on the Left (1972) version, and holy fuck the revenge scene on that is so fucked up. But satisfying to watch at the same time, iirc its way different than the 2009 remake
@@ilovesanrioandmcr2031 - and the original is Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring. Worth a watch.
Watched it once. Never rewatched it again, EVER. It was too much for me to handle.
@Jah Jah King edgy
@@susorasu he right tho
@@Dankbanana1 he's annoying tho
@@susorasu How do you have 233 subs and no videos tho?
That's amazing
@@Dankbanana1 Men keep subscribing to me :') I feel kinda bad.
I just watched Hostel for the first time, I really liked like it. I wasn't really into it until the "reveal" that it's not just some serial killer, but rather an entire organization, then i found the entire store a lot more compelling
I feel like directors of movies like this know a lot more and have seen a lot more than they tell us. They just show it
I like that they have Eli Roth’s head on a stake in the second movie.
George Moore He also gets decapitated in his fake trailer "Thanksgiving", and his head is on the turkey at the end.
The countries were fighting to get their tourism back. Hostel lead to a massive decline in backpacker tourism and it cost them A LOT for no good reason.
lmao thats so funny
all those human traffickers and rapemurderers going without supper 😢
funny thing, i absolutely hated saw when it came out, hostel blew me away on the other hand, it was realistic af, because i knew that topic was real and gruesome
The film is a horror masterpiece. I got to meet Eli Roth once and told him what a huge fan I am, and how I love the way Petr Janis (the German Surgeon) takes off his mask and seems to be having some kind of orgasm or climax because he is so excited. That part always disturbed me. Hostel is a masterpiece.
Poor Slovakia. It isn't such a shithole as this movie portrays it.
except it is🇨🇿
Ok I believe you
One of my favorite movies ever. Been for more than 10 years. Still remember how captivating the reality of this horror was when i see it when i was young.
I saw Hostel 1&2 as a teenager with my friends. That sh*t was messed up.
I saw The Human Centipede 1 and 2 at 13 and don't regret anything
I'll give Roth this; he's committed to his vision, and doesn't let studios boss him around.
The whole way through watching hostel I was holding back the lump in my throat, it was really devastating to watch and thinking that this probably happens to people makes me feel even worse
Not to mention that Roth/Wan made their films post 9/11, when the threat of torture seemed somewhat tangible to audiences, they both were incredibly socially relevant and really zone in on audience fears at the time. There's actually a lot to unpack from Hostel and torture porn as a whole..definitely an era of significance within horror. I wrote a whole essay on it at uni! If you want to learn more look into the work of Kevin Wetmore and horror post 9/11.
Neon Demon please? (Sorry if you have a video on it already!) It's one of my favorites and very underrated.
This is a good video. Also, I appreciate that you credit the music you use in the video! I wish more youtubers did that.
I feel like after I watched hostel I haven't been scared by any other horror movies, because they just don't have the realism factor of hostel and that scares me
Hostel is so messed up because Eli Roth has some demons y'all.
LOGIC ! Riveting analysis
@Saiyan Prince yea possibly
@Saiyan Prince yeah, and chemtrails are a thing, reptilians control the world, vaccines cause autism, blablabla. Christianity is a horrible religion, as is any other religion. Move into the 21st century, please.
@@razalasreficul6902 Christianity isn't a religion. Everything you mocked above is correct but that statement is false. Have you even read the Bible? Clearly not.
@@wdrumz Christianity is a religion though. It involves worship of a supernatural being, and adherence to a set of doctrines based on faith.
Do you think calling something a "religion" has negative connotations so you want to avoid those connotations? I don't understand why we're going to ignore basic dictionary definitions.
This video is really one of your best ones. Very inspired.
even watching/listening to someone explain or talk about Hostel makes me squirm, all because I keep remembering THAT foot scene
YES THAT WAS FD UP
The eye ball scene was worse to me...
RUclips recommended your Scream video for me to watch after this one, and when you began talking about the motive for the killers I could only think about one line from Scream.
"It's the millennium. Motives are incidental."
Hey man new to your channel, i never comment on videos but honestly I love when people understand horror to this degree I appreciate you very much
hostile isn't violent? the scene where that girl gets her eye burned out with the milky puss then she sees it and kills her self is literally burned into my brain and my bro is still freaked out if anyone touches his Achilles tendon. that movie gave a generation of kids ptsd.
You wanna talk about a country you must be very careful with what you do in fear of public punishment, try Singapore they're incredibly strict
I say Brazil is pretty violent also
This actually makes me happy to see people look into this films many facets and deeper meanings behind all of it
I know it's somewhat of a cult thriller, but since that seems to be right up your alley (I was impressed by the Killing List video), would you consider making a video on Pontypool?
Cheers and very good job mate!
Yes, Pontypool is amazing! It would be awesome if you could cover it!
I just wish in suits that dude would go on an annual European holiday and just never explain it. It would make so much sense.
true story. went to banff skiing on my own and stayed at a hostel for my first time. they put me in a room with 3 hot foreign young women. i couldnt believe my luck. im sitting in my bunk texting my friends about my incredible luck. one replies back "wasnt that a plot to a movie or something?"
As an Icelander I can confirm Óli is indeed the king of swing.