When in doubt, aim for the lowest common denominator.

Rating: 1/10 (22 March 2019)

Hostel was one of those movies that came out in the early to mid 2000's and ushered in the "torture porn" genre. You know the type of movie. The one that is heavy on gore and seeing people be tortured on screen but is light on story, suspense or anything good? It used to be this is what lazy filmmakers would put forth when they didn't have a decent story. They'd just throw a lot of blood at the project and people would go see it. But now it's a genre all to itself.
There is nothing worth seeing in this movie. At all. It uses the most cliche of characters, namely a bunch of douche-bros go to a small village in Eastern Europe where the women are hot and eager to do them. And they do. But to quote an old meme, it's a trap and they're all captured and taken to a place where rich people pay lots of money to torture and kill innocents. I think it's supposed to be a commentary on the fragility of life and how in today's world anything can be bought and sold for a price. Or I would think that somebody at some point has tried to make that comment in defense of this movie. It was crap then and it's crap now. This movie exists only to show blood and guts on the screen.
And that's really it. There's no story, the characters are unlikable and Eli Roth decided if he couldn't make a good movie at least make one with lots of blood so people would confuse it with horror and want to see it.
But it made money and spawned two sequels. Each of which was worse than the one before it.