Inelegant, schlocky, and full-on? Sure. But it’s also a relentless B-movie hitting your nerves with a blood-soaked meat pounder.

| Apr 4, 2025

This movie is rough all around. The gore was well done and was something different we hadn't seen before in a horror film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 29, 2022

I did not enjoy watching this at all. The decisions the characters made were nonsensical. I couldn't recommend this less unless over the top gore with little substance is your thing.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 29, 2022

There's a darkly comedic edge to Hostel that works in the film's favor, but it's not quite as clever as it seems to think it is.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 29, 2020

Of the two, Hernandez offers the stronger of the performances as we watch him transformed and nearly destroyed by his captors.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 11, 2020

This is a grim, gory, and unapologetically grungy piece of "survival horror." I dug it.

| Aug 28, 2015

Whereas most modern slasher films cut straight to the flesh-ripping for no purpose of art or psychological stimulation, Hostel marries them with skillful execution and, somehow, a relevant subtext.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 25, 2013

A series of interesting ideas floating around a sea of blood

| Aug 30, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2008

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

| Original Score: 3.75/4 | Jul 3, 2008

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

| Original Score: A | Aug 3, 2007

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

| Jul 10, 2007

You are unlikely to find another contemporary American horror movie with as much intensity and style as this one.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 21, 2007

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 | Original Score: 76/100 | Jun 6, 2007

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

| Mar 1, 2007

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 | Dec 29, 2006

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 13, 2006

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

Full Review | Original Score: C | Nov 27, 2006

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 7, 2006

A thoroughly intriguing twist on the horror genre.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 26, 2006