only for those with tough stomachs

Rating: Null/10 (23 February 2008)

Three young friends are backpacking through Europe in the hopes that they'll have the vacation of a lifetime. Tipped off by the promise of sex and drugs, they travel to a small town in Slovakia but their idyllic adventure is cut short when they learn that the town is a front for grisly murder and sadistic torture. Intriguing at first, with believable characters and a genuine atmosphere of tension and suspense, then foolishly turns on overdrive with unrelenting violence, gore, and cruelty, and little explanation for any of its repulsive occurrences. You actually care about these characters, but while viewing the horrid barrage around them you have to ask yourself, what's the point? Not for the squeamish is a drastic understatement. *½