It is possible, as shown in the film, to virtually visit any location in Europe and find a hostel in which to stay. Hostels are indeed located all around the world, but Europe, thanks to its astonishing cities and mindblowing cultural and artistic heritage, has for sure the best selection of hostels. It’s not uncommon to find an hidden political messagge in horror or dystopian movies, and Hostel boldly hit all America's biggest weaknesses: highly unjust gender dynamics, huge cultural differences, the arrogance of a superior race and the eternal fear of others, of strangers, of the abyssal unknow.Įurope was selected as Hostel’s main setting because of its fame as THE backpacker heaven. As Nerdist’s review rightly noticed, it’s not a coincidence that the movie was released just when America was right in the middle of a violent conflict in Iraq. On a deeper level of analysis, the movie brilliantly portrays the fear of the unknown and the penchant for excess common to Western culture. It’s clear then how all the Hostel movies took inspiration from this terribile tradition and made it their main narrative trend, adding the usual “Hollywoodian” fix of drama and bloody tortures.īut that’s not all. They are usually thrown in arenas and forced to endure physical and mental abuse to please the psychotic gambles of rich people, who are willing to pay exorbitant amounts of money to see people kill each other. But what awaits them is a life of crime and abuse. Here, society is ruled by powerful, organized crime syndicates that, taking advantage of people’s poverty, lure the youngest away from their family with the promise of well-paid jobs. The truth behind 'Hostel' has indeed its roots in the side-open spaces of Thai villages. However, in this case the fictional story has a lot of things in common with the real world!

Sure enough, it’s a very common reaction after seeing movies like Hostel: the fear that what you just saw at the cinema could actually happen to you in real life it’s what hunts our worst nightmares. Thus starts the true goriness of the movie Hostel: lopped heads, hanging eyeballs, sliced heels, sawed legs and horrifying bloodbaths, to cut a long story short!īefore the ending, we found out that the three boys were victims of a secret society called the “Èlite Hunting Club”, a group of perverse men who were used to pay big amount of money to torture young backpackers.Īs soon as the movie came out, the main question on the viewers’ mind was “is Hostel based on a true story?”. Shortly after, Josh is kidnapped by a mysterious guy and Paxton finds himself at the mercy of a german guy who ties him to a chair and tortures him in the most terrible ways. Oli is the first to disappear in thin air: he’s nowhere to be found. They can’t resist the temptation: they start searching for this legendary hostel and, once found, indulge in some lust-filled days. In Amsterdam, they meet an Ukrainian who introduces them to a quite unique hostel in Slovakia, where “extremely hot women” can make every man's deepest wish come true. The movie even starts out with a bit of light comedy, that persists as the two meet another traveler from Iceland, Oli, who later tags along. We follow two American friends, Paxton and Josh, who are off on a backpacking tour of Europe. 'Hostel' is the first of Hostel movies trilogy (and, if we can say so, the best of them all ). However, only one explains the whole story. There are many suppositions and theories that surround this extremely controversial tale, most of which make a decent attempt to explain the mystery behind Hostel. But what if I told you that what you’ve seen on screen could have actually happened? What if Hostel is actually based on a true story? 'Hostel', a blood and gore horror film released in 2006 written by Eli Roth (and produced by Quentin Tarantino), remains one of the most gruesome horror movies to ever make it big in mainstream cinema.

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