In Amsterdam, they find everything they're looking for: hash, booze, and sex. Three friends - Americans Paxton (Jay Hernandez) and Josh (Derek Richardson), and Icelander Oli (Eythor Gudjonsson) - are backpacking their way across Europe. If nothing else, that will raise its profile when it reaches DVD, which shouldn't be far off. But because of the popularity of the horror genre and the fact that writer/director Eli Roth developed some notoriety for his previous feature, Cabin Fever, Lion's Gate has elected to give Hostel a theatrical bow. A thrill-less thriller that uses gore to obfuscate its inability to generate tension, this motion picture has the profile one might expect from a direct-to-video release. Sometimes, calling something "cheesy" and "B-grade" can be construed as a compliment.
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