Bad research, Bad actors, bad movie...

Rating: 3/10 (12 August 2006)

The first time I saw the title and setting of Hostel I thought it might be promising. Traveling through Europe seems to be a fantasy of a lot of Americans, so you can't blame the makers for that. But the way it has been brought and researched is utter c.r.a.p. It's unbelievable how bad the 'accents' are. Especially the Dutch accents. (reminded me of Goldmember, Austin Powers, same mistake.)As an American living in Holland I can fully assure you that I know what a Dutch person sounds like speaking English. and THIS IS NOT IT. They portray Dutch people as Germans. and everything east of Germany as Russian. It's almost racist.
The actors, apart from the childish sex-obsessed leads, are seemingly all from eastern Europe. That doesn't necessarily mean they are bad. But in this case they are. In the making of they even showed a drunk slovakian taxi driver who they decided to stick in the movie anyway due to lack of anything better.
Apart from the makers not knowing ANYthing about the setting whatsoever, the movie is mediocre. Not a bad idea, having a sort of cult idea where people torture people for fun. It's just all so-so. If you want to laugh AT a movie and not with it: This is the one. Although I don't think that's what horror movies are intended for...