Bland, unimaginative. Can't bring myself to call it a horror movie!

Rating: 2/10 (24 March 2006)

Off the few reviews I had to go on, this had been made out to be a scary, gory and entertaining horror flick. How wrong they were.
The main problem with writing a review of this film is that, in doing so, would give the plot away - that's how thin it is.
Essentially, some backpackers (one of which looks quite like Ryan Merriman from Final Destination 3) head to Slovakia on the advice of a guy they chance upon. The hostel they find themselves in is far from the utopia it seems.
There is little in the way of plot, it serves just to move the characters on from location to location getting gorier as it goes. Under scrutiny it doesn't hold together in the slightest. The only character you empathise with is killed off, the "bit part" characters are transparent and do little to guide the film. Essentially Hostel is several minutes of gore (not altogether that explicit) with a few more minutes of dialogue, a stupidly weak plot, laboured characters and a loose ending.
For my money, stay away from this carnival of horrors.