Another piece of junk from Eli Roth

Rating: 1/10 (4 May 2006)

Will someone please stop Eli Roth (the "director" of this stupid and dull excuse for a movie) from ever making any other films? His "Cabin Fever" was bad enough, but "Hostel" is way, way worse. This wretched excuse for a movie takes half its running time to get down to business, squandering any intelligence or plot in favor of low-grade porn and the misadventures of three characters that no one could remotely even care about. Throw in a lot of barely concealed homophobia (Eli Roth apparently has issues he's trying to work out) and watch this impotent brew put the audience to sleep. By the time the supposedly "scary" stuff starts happening, this movie is so far off the tracks that it crashes and burns into one ridiculous scene after another. Film buffs might get a laugh or two picking out parts of other, better horror films that Eli Roth ripped off and used in "Hostel", in exactly the same way he did for "Cabin Fever". This movie actually put me to sleep during it's first half, and then gave me a whopper of a headache during the second half, primarily due to aggravation based on the fact that I couldn't punch Eli Roth's face off. The only really frightening thing on the DVD is in the featurettes listening to Mr. Roth talk about how European toilets flush. I told you he had issues. Pass this movie by and save a couple of aspirins. Total garbage!