Great Torture-flick which got the unusual 20-rating in Norway...

Rating: 8/10 (25 September 2013)

"Hostel" is a 2005 horror movie directed by Eli Roth, who also directed the film's sequel. This film is also said to be the first one to get labeled with the infamous sub-genre Torture-Porn.
Basic plot: The film centers around several boys who travels to Slovakia in order to visit a hostel filled with a bunch of beautiful women. But what they don't know, is the fact they are soon to get lured into the world of torture and death...
Being a horror film, this film has lots of nudity during the hostel scenes. It is when the gore comes into the screen it gets somewhat intense, and might not be recommended for squeamish people. Great use of gore anyway, even gore-hounds might get to enjoy this flick.
The IMDb site says this film is rated 18, basically the highest rating in Norway. However, on the DVD box, the film is actually rated 20, which is a very unusual rating to be put into a Norwegian DVD box. Even the sequel "Hostel: Part II" got the ultra rare 20-rating, and my 2-disc box set which contains the two "Hostel" films says the same. In my opinion, these movies should rather have gotten the 18-rating, because there are lots of worse movies having been made in the world when it comes to gore and intense scenes.
Overall, I found this one and part 2 to be pretty enjoyable, well to be honest some of the better modern horror films having been made in the US in the mid-2000's. This film is also not so clichéd as most horror films made in the US tend to be way many times. If you like watching topless women and ESPECIALLY scenes of intense gore which is one of the big points here, and haven't seen this yet, I can recommend you to watch this at least once. My rating is 8/10.
A few other movies which got the infamous genre torture-porn include: "Martyrs (2005)", "Wolf Creek (2005)", "Antichrist (2009)" and the "Saw"-movies.