3/5

Eli Roth has clearly seen way too many video nasties than can strictly be considered healthy - the first half of the film is wall-to-wall gratuitous sex and violence, and not always in a good way.

Full Review | Comment

03/23/06

3/5

There isn't really much suspense or scariness in this film, but it is seriously nightmarish

Full Review | Comment

01/21/06

3.75/4

Roth is able to change the focus from frolicking raunchiness to extreme chilliness in a way that's quite sobering.

Full Review | Comment

07/03/08

5/5

A stern moralistic rebuke to ugly-Americanism. The movie is in-your-face but not pointlessly so.

Full Review | Comment

08/03/07

2/4

This is routine Roth as usual. Homophobia, attempted nihilism, vapid writing, paper thin plot, and nonsensical all the way...

Full Review | Comment

07/10/07

N/A

Roth proves unable to control the tone of his premise, in the end pandering too much to the male adolescent audience that he at first seems to be satirising.

Full Review | Comment

07/09/07

76/100

The skill with which Eli Roth has constructed his film, especially its first 40 minutes, leads me to give it the benefit of the doubt. It's creepy, gripping, horrifying stuff.

Full Review | Comment

06/06/07

N/A

While there are some cheap thrills to be had here, much of the movie is profoundly boring.

Full Review | Comment

03/01/07

N/A

Whether or not this kind of horror movie is your cup of tea, you have to at least admire Roth for the daring and creativity with which he illustrates that concept.

Full Review | Comment

12/29/06

3/4

...no one is going to mistake "Hostel" for a travelogue, unless they are looking for a journey full of terror.

Full Review | Comment

12/13/06

C

Hostel's merely unpleasant and more than a little dumb.

Full Review | Comment

11/27/06

2.5/4

A thoroughly intriguing twist on the horror genre.

Full Review | Comment

09/26/06